Information about the Poster Symposium Spring 2026

The students' posters are part of their course work and assessment. As a rule, these posters will be presented at the Student Poster Session, and also be made available online at this website. This is to make the students’ work visible to their peers, and it is also an opportunity for individual students to link their own work to their CV/job application to showcase their course work at BIO. For the course, this page also provides a overview of previous student work. However, some students may work with data that is not ready to share with the public.

It is important that:

1. The course responsible informs all supervisors that posters will be made publicly available. If they are not to be made available, supervisor must contact course responsible, preferably early in the semester.
2. The course responsible MUST INFORM the students about the bioPITCH platform, and encourage them to talk to supervisors and be reflective of what can be posted online at this stage in the project/talk about data sharing agreements, etc.
3. Course responsible must inform bioPITCH team if posters presented at the Symposium should not be made available online.
4. If anybody finds that published posters should be removed from the website, please contact Jonathan.Soule@uib.no as soon as possible.

A1 landscape or A1 portrait are the only 2 formats that will be accepted for printing. Here you will find Photoshop, Illustrator and Powerpoint files that you may use when designing your poster. Note that these files have the right proportions and show the areas (in gray, top and bottom) that should not be used when designing the poster as these areas will be hidden by the poster stands when on display. NB: do not forget to remove the gray banners before finalizing the poster).

Posters have to be sent as PDF (in the right size – A1), no other program or file format will be accepted.

All posters will be given a QR code (including poster number) with a link to bioPITCH. QR codes will be distributed by the course responsible a few weeks before the deadline. These QR codes with poster number must be displayed on the poster.

It is the course leaders' responsibility to gather the PDF files of all posters from their course and send them all in a single email (and in the right format - see above) to Jonathan.Soule@uib.no no later than Monday, May 18^th at 10:00.

Course responsible must communicate this with their students, and gather all posters from their course. If you want time to look through the posters first, you must give the students a deadline that fits your schedule prior to this date. It may be a good idea to inform the students about this deadline at the start of the course.

Posters will be printed as a single batch and will also be made available online on https://biopitch.w.uib.no/.

Searching for inspiration? Do not hesitate to check out the posters that have been presented and published by previous students. All posters are available at bioPITCH.

The UiB logo may be downloaded from this page: https://manual.uib.no/en/profile-components/download-uibs-logo-and-emblem/

Need help with poster design? Here is the bioWRITE page about posters: https://biowrite.w.uib.no/genres/#poster

The poster templates may be downloaded from this page.

If you have questions about this event, please contact Kristin.Holtermann@uib.no or Jonathan.Soule@uib.no

We are very much looking forward to the student poster session!!