3/21/19

Objective/Goal: The objective of this lab was to present our scientific poster presentations with the goal of obtaining feedback from Dr. Adair, Michael, Taylor, and our peers.

Feedback/Criticism: The majority of the feedback was focused around the organization of the “Methods and Materials” section; rather than have a bulky paragraph, it was recommended that my group add a simple flowchart instead. Another point if improvement was the title, because our poster’s title was not specific enough to our research. The explanation of the results section had error regarding the 1 Kb ladder for our gels as well. My group was also recommended to delete the picture of the found ciliate because it was not a high quality picture. However, Dr. Adair mentioned that she liked the collage of our metadata pictures because it was “interesting.”

Solutions/Future Goals: My lab partner and I will incorporate all the feedback we received into our poster by condensing the “Methods” section into a simple flowchart, creating a specific and relevant title, correcting our results portion, and deleting the low quality ciliate picture. Overall, I think our poster was on the right track and with these improvements it will be great.