Lightning Talk Examples
During the summer school, each poster session will begin with lightning talks from the presenters. A microphone will be passed around the room and each presenter will be given 1 minute to speak. These talks will be timed and a there will be a hard cut-off at 1 minute.
Example 1
Volcanoes are cool right? It's fascinating how something as solid as a rock can become a fluid when you give it enough heat. I look at something similar, but a bit deeper in the earth's crust. So at the bottom of the crust, an important thing to know is that rocks are not homogeneous materials. So you can think of them a bit like chocolate chip cookies. If you put one of them in an oven, only the chocolate bits are gonna melt. And so I look at how these molten bits flow through some rocks.
Example 2
I'm a fifth year PhD student at MIT in a joint program with Wood's Hole Oceangraphic Institution and biological oceanography. I study environmental populations of micro eukaryotes protists. And the really challenging thing about protists is that many of them cannot be kept in culture in order to study them. So we have to study them in-situ using metagenomic metatransfer techniques, so sequencing technologies. And once we have those data sets, these large sequencing data sets, they are difficult to process and quite complex. They have these really complicated genomes of these protists that then have really complex heat regions and are really difficult to annotate taxanomically, because again we don't have many of these species in cultures so we aren't able to identify them. My poster is all about some tools that I've developed to be able to analyze these data sets and to annotate populations of protists in-situ more effectively. I'm looking forward to chatting.
Audience
The summer school brings together a very diverse audience of graduate-level students in many different scientific disciplines. The most successful lightning talks discuss at a very high-level the scientific challenge being explored and why someone in the general public should care.Script Preparation
Due to the 1-minute limit, many presenters find it helpful to prepare a script. At most, this script should be 150 words long. It should begin by introducing yourself and your area of research.Examples
The following scripts are examples that should take under 1 minute to present.Example 1
Volcanoes are cool right? It's fascinating how something as solid as a rock can become a fluid when you give it enough heat. I look at something similar, but a bit deeper in the earth's crust. So at the bottom of the crust, an important thing to know is that rocks are not homogeneous materials. So you can think of them a bit like chocolate chip cookies. If you put one of them in an oven, only the chocolate bits are gonna melt. And so I look at how these molten bits flow through some rocks.
Example 2
I'm a fifth year PhD student at MIT in a joint program with Wood's Hole Oceangraphic Institution and biological oceanography. I study environmental populations of micro eukaryotes protists. And the really challenging thing about protists is that many of them cannot be kept in culture in order to study them. So we have to study them in-situ using metagenomic metatransfer techniques, so sequencing technologies. And once we have those data sets, these large sequencing data sets, they are difficult to process and quite complex. They have these really complicated genomes of these protists that then have really complex heat regions and are really difficult to annotate taxanomically, because again we don't have many of these species in cultures so we aren't able to identify them. My poster is all about some tools that I've developed to be able to analyze these data sets and to annotate populations of protists in-situ more effectively. I'm looking forward to chatting.
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