Everybody fight for having an oral presentation at conferences. However, a poster is often not a bad idea. A poster is like a resume. His scope is not to tell everything about your work, but to attract potentially interested people from who you can have nice conversations, learn something, start a collaboration. To get the general idea of an award winning poster, give a close look to the poster below, that is part of a dedicated page on Nature.
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A less traditional layout is the one of the poster to which I dedicated the first post of this year. Finally informative guidelines by:
- Nature journal
- Cornell Center for Material Research
- Liverpool University
- Colin Purrington's templates
- McDermott poster story
Obviously, it is assumed that you have something to tell (but this is another topic).