Biology Department Colloquium
Winners for 2025 colloquium
This year's colloquium went off well. All students did a fantastic job in presenting their research.
The Biology Student Colloquium is a day-long event featuring the various research interests of our graduate and undergraduate students. This year the colloquium will be held on Friday, date pending.
The colloquium is sponsored by the Tri-Beta Biology Honor Society and the Department of Biology.
Contributors present posters or give talks. The oral sessions run all day in Supple 116 and are organized in the format of a professional scientific meeting, with strict time limitations. Posters are displayed either in a lecture hall or the student lounge on the third floor. Student contributions are judged by attending faculty and prizes are awarded in several categories.
Who can present?
Graduate or undergraduate students conducting research in the Biology Department or with the collaboration of the Biology Department are encouraged to submit abstracts of their research. Due to the high number of submissions, we will not be able to accommodate research proposals or reports on experiments that are still in the planning stage. We will try to accommodate everyone with their first choice between oral or poster presentation. However, if we are running out of time (slots) in the oral sessions, we will ask students that registered the latest to give poster presentations instead of talks.
Please fill out the registration form below with some basic information.
You may choose to do either an oral presentation or a poster. An abstract will be requested from you once your oral presentation or poster is approved.
Oral presentations: Each speaker will have 15 min (12 min for presentation and 3 min for Q&A). Presentation times will be published as soon as the program is finalized. Powerpoint presentations must be uploaded to the Canvas site prior to the meeting.
Posters: Maximum poster size is 42" wide x 36" tall. Printed posters must be displayed in the Student Lounge by 12 pm on the day of the Colloquium.
Registration deadline: date pending.
Awards
Awards will be given for “Best Presentation” by a Ph.D. student, M.S. graduate student and an Undergraduate "Best Poster" award. Additionally awards may be given if there are at least 3 contributions in a given category (e.g. best talk or poster by an undergraduate student)
Questions and more information
Questions may be addressed to the colloquium organizers:
Resources
Comm Lab at Texas State University (The Comm Lab works one-on-one with graduate and undergraduate students to help them in preparing to give presentations.)
Golden Rules for PowerPoint presentations
Information on poster presentations