Poster Presentation Guidelines (adapted from ASM Microbe)


Size: Poster boards for the Ohlone-Newark campus have a 4’ by 3’ size.


Centered at the top of your poster:

  • Poster title
  • Author name(s) and institution 
  • Email Address of corresponding author

On main area of the poster:

  • Your poster abstract (statement of problem, hypothesis, methods and summary of findings in 2200 characters or less)
  • Introduction 
  • Methods 
  • Results 
  • Conclusions 
  • References  
  • Discussion (optional)  

Important Notes: 
Commercial, product, and corporate logos must NOT be placed on posters or poster boards.
Institutional logos are fine. Please be sure to communicate this policy if the poster is being 
designed and printed for you by someone else.