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Guidelines for lab meeting presentations

Short Updates

  • Total 2–3 slides and plan for 6 minutes of presentation and 4 minutes of interspersed questions.
  • 1 slide big picture / hyothesis.
  • 1 slide experiment design.
  • 1 slide data.

Long updates

  • Total 15–20 slides and plan for 40 minutes including questions.
  • 3–5 slides of introduction.
  • 5–10 slides of key data collected for the project.
  • 1–3 slides of future plans.

Slide guidelines

  1. Fonts should be readable (>=18pt, Helvetica).
  2. Any data / experiment discussion should be accompanied by a schematic of your experimental design.
  3. Slides and schematics are generated easily using Inkscape vector graphics.
  4. Use vscode-reveal for writing your presentation in Markdown. For example, look at this presentation.