6 Conferences
Conferences provide an opportunity to learn about new research, get feedback on your own research, practice presentation skills, take a short course, network, and more. Dr. Rose is happy to discuss conferences relevant to your research and career goals in our meetings.
If we have discussed a conference and Dr. Rose is funding your trip, please send Dr. Rose a projected budget for the trip before purchasing plane tickets, registrations, or reserving hotels.
Lab members can view our internal list of upcoming conference presentations here.
6.1 Stanford Travel Policies
Flights for Lab trainees and staff must be purchased through Stanford Travel. They are not reimbursable otherwise. Hotels must be purchased through Stanford Travel unless it is a conference hotel. Please copy Dr. Rose on travel-related emails with administrative staff.
Health Policy and Biomedical Data Science Students: If you are presenting at a conference, submit for up to $1,000 of those expenses to be reimbursed through the Biosciences Travel Grant Program. You are eligible for one conference per year.
6.2 Slides
We have an experimental Lab slide template for Quarto located in our GitHub repository. This template uses reveal.js. The slide template is not required for lab presentations, but it may be a useful starting point.
There are several good resources for creating effective scientific presentations. Here are a couple:
- Better Presentations by Jonathan Schwabish
- The Motivated Speaker by Ruth Milligan, Acacia Duncan, and Blythe Coons
One issue to consider when presenting results from a paper is whether to use the same figures and tables as in the paper or create new ones. Often, the details in a paper figure or table may not be necessary for a presentation. Consider simplifying figures and tables to focus on the key message you want to convey. See the “Telling a story and making a point” chapter of Fundamentals of Data Visualization for more guidance.
Lab meetings are also good opportunity to practice your presentation skills and get feedback from Lab members.
6.3 Posters
We have an experimental Lab poster template for Quarto located in our GitHub repository. This template uses Typst. The poster template is not required, but it may be a useful starting point.
A poster printing service local to Stanford is Biotech Productions, which Lab members have used in the past with good experiences.
6.4 Conferences by Field
We include below a noncomprehensive list of conferences that may be of interest to Lab members.