Is doing poster design a skill, or an art, that you’ve learned over the years?
I’ve learned what’s important to be there and what’s not. Certainly make the title understandable; and just put the points in that you think your audience will understand. Depending on the conference, you have a different audience. BMES is more professional than the audience at URECA. If you go to a bone conference, you can put more terminology there because you don’t want it to be too general. You want to show the details that you’re working on. The URECA presentations are more for a general audience. URECA is more of a socializing event for me. Friends come and look at my poster, and I tell them what osteoporosis is, and explain the big picture about my research. They don’t really want to know the details because they don’t really understand it. Is it difficult to balance academics and lab work? Actually not, because I see it as a class. For MARC, I m required to register for 3 credits for research. 1 credit is equivalent to 3 hours per week. So I am required to be in the lab for at
