Hi All,

I'm having a stress about my upcoming PhD poster at a conference.
Generally the poster is fine, and my flow cytometry data is looking good, but as sod's law would predict it, my associated westerns aren't working as well as they should. I have had meetings with my supervisors, and both have been very supportive despite me having a lot of issues, and I had thought I turned a corner until the last week.

I have emailed about my concerns but I am worried that due to my dodgy westerns I've let myself and them down again, and really wanted to do well for all of us.

Any tips?

From my experience of doing a poster presentation, I don't think it matters if you don't have a set of perfect data for the poster (I had to do mine with only pilot test information, as that was all I had at the time). I think if you can talk to people about your ideas and the work is still ongoing, that is fine.

Hi,

thanks for the tips. It's my first poster presentation so I'm a bit worried about it as I don't know what to expect - I suppose having really good data really would help me feel a bit more prepared!

I found that people who approached me had either a general interest in my topic or they were doing something similar and wanted to ask specific questions about things like which measures I was using. Remember that you know more about your project than they do, and don't feel afraid to say that you're still collecting data or whatever.