BGSA Graduate Students' Symposium

The BGSA will be presenting the annual Graduate Students' Symposium on Friday, March 24, in the Michael Smith Auditorium. This event is open to graduate students in Botany and its associated departments: Plant Science, Forestry, and Zoology.

The symposium is a yearly event that provides a forum for botany and plant science grad students to share their planned, in progress, or completed research with their peers. This is an excellent opportunity to get some mileage out of a talk or poster that you've given in the last year, to present your research proposal to a wider audience, or to put together a new talk in anticipation of the upcoming conference season.

Students: this is an excellent opportunity to practice your public speaking skills, let us know about your research, and attempt to cram five years' worth of research into a 10-12 minute PowerPoint presentation. You can present your latest paper, your thesis results or progress, or even a summary of your thesis proposal. No data - no excuse!

Supervisors: "encourage" your students to participate - no graduate education is complete without the aforementioned cramming of complex scientific concepts into a short talk given to a general audience! We likewise encourage you (without quotation marks) to drop by the symposium to support your students and see what interesting things are going on in the rest of the department. We also have coffee.

Please submit abstracts to Jeff Saarela (jsaarela@interchange.ubc.ca) by Friday, March 17th. If you have a poster, bring it (please let us know beforehand). Questions regarding the symposium should be directed to Jeff Saarela or Chris Sears (sears@interchange.ubc.ca).

Posted by Hardeep Rai at 4:30 PM on March 13, 2006