Poster for project

In science, you frequently present your work in the form of a poster.  Throughout the semester, you will be working on a recombinant DNA technology project.  You will be given two pieces of DNA (plasmids) and will need to transfer a piece of DNA from one plasmid to another.  There will be many steps to this project and it will take many lab periods.  At the end of this project or other project that you may someday do in a laboratory, you will need to make a poster of what you did.  You will work with a group to do the experiment but you will submit your own final project.  To do this,  you will need to make a poster online using power point (or other program that you know how to use).  You can look at my example of a poster or you can use your own format.  However, you will need to include all of the sections that I have listed below.

1.     TITLE AND NAME

Give the title of the paper and your name.

2. INTRODUCTION

Give a brief overview of the project.  What were you trying to do and what did you accomplish?

3. MATERIALS AND METHODS

How did you perform the different techniques?  I will discuss this section in more detail as the semester progresses.  You will have limited space on your poster so you will only need to include the essential details.

4. RESULTS

This is where you will include the results that you obtained from the different experiments.  In this section, you may want to include pictures of gels, plates, etc. If your experiment does not work, you should write here, what you should have gotten.  You may want to draw a picture of a gel and show what size bands you should have gotten.

5. CONCLUSIONS, DISCUSSION, PROBLEMS

We may not be able to totally complete this project during the semester.  In this section, write what you were able to accomplish, what it means and if there were problems that prevented you from completing the experiments.