Presentation Guidelines

Guest Speakers

• PowerPoint slides may be emailed to akham@umn.edu in advance, or you may bring your own laptop (5 - 10 min setup time).  If emailed, please specify Mac or PC PowerPoint version.  Guest speaker seminar series are informal, 40-45 min talks on current topics relevant to oral biology, with 5 - 10 min questions and discussions.

Students

1. Journal Club (JC) or Research in Progress (RIP) should be submitted to seminar coordinator (akham@umn.edu) 5 days prior to presentation.
2. Presentations are to be done with PowerPoint and should be no more than 40 minutes, approximately 15-20 slides. Allow 10 minutes for questions and/or discussions during and after the presentation.
3. JC is for students in their first 3 semesters. Exceptions may be made if a paper of significance in your field has recently been published. 
4. RIP is for students who have significant research experience or preliminary data.  For this semester, RIP will also include thesis proposal presentation without significant preliminary data.

Journal Club (JC)

Primary articles ONLY (no reviews). The objective of the JC presentation is to highlight a study of your interest: the objective and rationale of the study, experimental methods, findings, and conclusions/interpretations.  Presentation should conform to the following format: Introduction (2-3 slides), Experimental Design (3-4 slides), Results & Conclusions (5-6 slides), Discussions (1 slide) and Critique (1 slide).

RIP: (1) For students early in their thesis progression: provide background, significance, hypothesis, specific aims, experimental design and expected outcomes. (2) For students having more than preliminary data: provide background, brief experimental design, brief results, conclusions/discussions, and future experiments.  

Students with upcoming preliminary exam or thesis defense may sign up for a 50-min presentation (including 5 - 10 min questions and discussions).

• Seminar Tips
• Successful PowerPoint Presentation Tips (coming soon)