How-to Guides for Posters
Wondering where to start on your poster? Check out these guides!
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Research Posters - DesignLabThis guide has tips on how to design a visually appealing poster. Look at the "Recommended Software" section for ideas of websites or software you can use to create the poster.
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Infographics and Data Visualization - DesignLabThis guide has design tips for creating graphs and figures for your poster.
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Creating a Poster - The Writing CenterThis guide has tips on how to design a poster and to decide what to put on it.
Creating Figures
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ChemDraw TutorialsThese videos give an introduction to using ChemDraw, which is used to create molecular diagrams.
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Download ChemDrawInstructions for downloading ChemDraw, which is free for UW-Madison students. (Login with NetID is required)
BioRender is a website that you can use to create figures for your poster using their templates and icons. If you use BioRender to create a figure, say "Created with BioRender.com" at the end of the figure's caption.
You do not need to do anything else to cite BioRender.