Where do you guys find poster presentations?

[MangoPlant]

I see a lot of people on here have poster presentations at conferences all around the country and even abroad. How do they get such opportunities? Do you usually have to apply for these poster presentations on your own or does your PI arrange everything for you?

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[kyamh]

You usually apply yourself with the support of your PI.

As an undergraduate student, I participated in the same conference 3 different years, but I can only speak for this one conference.

The Society for Neuroscience has a yearly giant (33k people) convention and each year they have a symposium called FUN (Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience) that you can present at as a student. Basically everyone gets in as long as you submit an abstract by October, or whatever the deadline is. At my school, students who were presenting at a conference were eligible to apply for travel grants to cover expenses and the conference offers undergraduate travel grants as well. The real-deal is the main conference, which is a lot more difficult to get into and requires a serious submission in May, but you take what you can get and the undergraduate symposium is awesome practice for the real thing 🙂

Edit: Also, a lot of summer programs have a poster presentation at the end of the summer. These are not as fun to go to as the conferences (for one thing, you don't get free swag 😉) or as impressive on your resume, but it's still a poster presentation.

 

[Goro]

Look into FASEB as well.

I see a lot of people on here have poster presentations at conferences all around the country and even abroad. How do they get such opportunities? Do you usually have to apply for these poster presentations on your own or does your PI arrange everything for you?

 

[onceawolverine]

I presented a poster during the Anxiety and Depression Association of America conference (I'd say a moderately large conference among clinical psychologists and psychiatrists). I had to apply for it (with a colleague of mine) almost 6 months in advance, under the endorsement of our faculty advisor.

 

[hoihaie]

When I presented at American Association for Cancer Research, I had to submit an abstract to them some months prior to the conference and the AACR committee goes through the abstracts and chose which one they want for poster presentation and which one they want for oral presentation.

 

[misseskwee]

Was able to do this because I did research with a department that was very aggressive in sending students to these events. They send ~20 students to poster presentations and conferences multiple times a year, every year!! I was just kinda lucky, I didn't even know this when I signed up. Surprisingly, it was at a CC too!!!!