Doing Science: Preparing a poster

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### Doing Science: a Juniors' ‘How to…’ Series Starting a scientific career means learning a wide range of new skills. Often you do them as best you can and try to learn in a trial and error basis how to do better next time. This “Doing Science” section is a joint initiative of Breathe and the ERS Junior Members' Committee (JMC) and will address common tasks that scientists and clinicians are faced with early in their careers. The topics we will cover ( e.g. poster presentation, chairing sessions, reviewing papers, etc .) are not exclusive to Junior Members but are often relevant to members of all levels of academic experience; so, we hope that there may be something here for everyone. So, your abstract was accepted for a poster session? Great! Or had you hoped for an oral presentation? Poster sessions offer some unique opportunities to present your work and should not be regarded as a “second-rate format” during meetings and congresses. Poster discussions have sparked many research ideas, collaborations and job opportunities that would have never occurred in an oral presentation setting. Having a good poster is the key to success [1]. We have therefore compiled some tips that can help you present your work more effectively. In contrast to scientific …