Title: PowerPoint Presentation
Course: BTEC-2000-301-302-303-F21 > Section: InnovaBio® Project Presentation

Prepare a presentation in PowerPoint to describe the experimental results of your project. Describe the reasoning and methods for the experiments. The flowchart, figures, and tables you made in the module assignments are perfect visual aids for your audience to understand the project. Please refer to the rubric items to be sure you meet all of the expectations.

InnovaBio Guidelines for PowerPoint Presentation

Please pay extra attention to understanding and presenting the background information.  Also present all your data successful and unsuccessful. Be sure to ask anyone in InnovaBio about your project.  We want you to understand what you are doing and why you are doing the project.

My best recommendation is to make the title of each slide be the conclusion or main point of the slide.

Introduction:  2-3 slides

- Be sure to give enough background information to help your fellow InnovaBio students understand the data you will present.
- What company/group are you working with?
  - What value does your project add to the company?
  - What is the final outcome of your project?
  - What will you deliver to the company?
- Describe your project.
  - What genes, proteins, and/or organisms are you working with?
- What are your objectives on the project?
  - What will you start with in terms of plasmids, vectors, primers, etc.?
  - What experimental steps will you need to follow to complete the project?

Methods:  3-4 slides

- Use a flow chart!!
- Describe the tools, kits, or experiments used and explain how each fits into the overall plan.
- Do not describe each step of your protocol. Tell us the purpose of the experiment.  However, if details asked for, be prepared to answer.
- Describe any special equipment, reagents, or organisms you may be working with.
- Show any plasmid vectors, genes, or reference sequences that you are working with.
  - Describe the relevant features of the vector or reference sequences.
  - Show vector maps!!

Results and conclusions: (slides as needed for completed experiments)

- Explain why you did each experiment and the experimental design.
- Show the experimental results: agarose or acrylamide gel pictures.
- Make the text on you slides readable for your audience.
- Gel pictures must be cropped to show relevant data
  - Not the white part of the picture or the date and exposure information
  - All lanes must be labeled
  - The DNA/protein markers must be labeled with sizes for the bands
  - The largest size should be oriented toward the top of the page.
- Data written in the lab notebook should be organized into a table.
- Explain positive and negative experimental controls.
- Describe the results
  - Tell us what everything is on the figure; axes, lanes, data points etc.
- Tell your conclusions.
  - Tell how you know that your data is or is not what you expected
  - How do your results affect the project?

Future directions: 1-2 slides

- What experiments will you do next?
- How do the current and future experiments lead you to the final outcomes of your project?

Acknowledgments: 1 slide

- Acknowledge all InnovaBio members who have contributed to your project.

Please ask any of the InnovaBio® staff if you have questions or problems.

1. Prepare your presentation in Microsoft PowerPoint
2. Submit the presentation to Canvas.