Capstone Poster

My organism

Capstone Poster Presentation Guidelines

BIOL 1302, Spring 2014, Dr. Griffard

In architecture, a capstone is the crowning stone placed on top of a structure. In education a capstone experience is a crowning achievement, a culmination of what a student has learned over time. The capstone poster presentation will be an exciting day in which each student will present her/his findings about the species s/he has learned about all semester.  The open poster session will be a public event.

A poster template and printing instructions and deadlines will be provided. The poster must include the following:

1. Scientific name of your organism, and common name if it has one, and the category you were assigned that you chose your organism from (e.g., a prokaryote that causes human disease, a vascular plant found on the UHD campus)
2. Your name
3. High resolution photograph or micrograph of your organism, in its habitat if relevant.
4. An abstract summarizing your research (200 words maximum, 5 points). Do this after you finish everything else on your poster.
5. A concept map of at least 25 concepts that summarizes your organism’s biology. Do this after you finish everything else on your poster.
6. Details about any 4 of the following aspects of your organism. It is­­ also acceptable to use information about a closely related species if it is not known for your particular organism. Just document it. Check with me if you are not sure.
1. Any detail about your organism’s biochemistry, genetics or cell biology that you learned in BIOL 1301 (e.g., structure of a protein found in your organism, a special cell type or organelle, a specialized biochemical pathway, a gene it has, etc.)
2. Details about your organism’s ecology with respect to its population, community, ecosystem, habitat, biogeochemical cycles and/or biome.
3. One evolutionary adaptation that your organism exhibits, with a plausible explanation for how that adaptation arose and persisted to now.
4. 3 phylogenetic trees or cladograms that show how your organism is related to other living things. One will be a “zoom-out” macro view, the other will be a “zoom-in” micro view. The third will be any tree of life representation; you will mark on each where your species would be placed.
5. Alleles of a particular gene in your organism (can be hypothetical). Predict genotypic and phenotypic frequencies of the allele in a hypothetical population, telling what factors might cause the frequency to change over time. (If your organism is haploid, this can be adapted)
6. Details about one physiological process that your organism uses for feeding itself, gas exchange/transport, reproduction, hormonal control, osmoregulation.
7. Details about the life cycle of your organism, including alternation of generations and its reproduction.
8. Any other process or phenomenon that does not fit in one of the above categories (get approval).

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The poster session will be 75 min. long during class time. You should have a 3-min presentation prepared and practiced for your visitors. I may not be able to get to every poster, so you may record your presentation and upload it to Bb if you wish (check with me first).  This is also an option if public speaking and presentation are still overwhelming for you.

Tips:

• Use any opportunity to highlight how your organism is similar to others and how it is unique. (for example, an interesting organelle, enzyme regulation, nutrient requirement, symbiotic relationship, conserved gene, etc)
• Be clear about which aspects of your presentation are well documented in the literature and which are those you are speculating about based on your biology knowledge or related organisms.
• Avoid pixellation by choosing graphics that are high resolution.
• Credit all images and your most useful sources.
• Choose graphics over text. Most poster visitors will not read text on a poster.
• Practice your 3-minute talk with an A3 size printout of your poster before submitting your poster for printing. Doing so will identify which parts need clarification or editing.
• Invite your visitors to interrupt you if something is not clear. Anticipate their questions by presenting to your classmates beforehand.
• Academics can see past beauty. Spend your limited time on assembling good, solid information before wasting time choosing fonts and rearranging text. But do attend to esthetics in order to make your poster effective.

Grading Rubric

Name	Earned/possible
Poster Effectiveness of text, including abstract Effectiveness of graphics, including concept map Biological details Total for poster	/15            /15            /30            /60
3 minute talk Good use of time Good choice of information to talk about Good interpersonal communication, poise, pace, posture Handled questions professionally	/20
Total	/80

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