In two words: "Im presionante"

On 27th of April, our communication was present in the First Interprovince Congress of PIIISA Projects held in Malaga. But, only in the book of abstracts (http://piiisaandalucia.blogspot.com.es/) in last page: communication 49.

 http://www.uma.es/infouma/eventos/congreso-general-piiisa-/ 

This congress inspired to teachers, researchers students of different Secondary schools, Universities, Engineering, and Research Centers of all over Andalucia, except Granada. Every attendant of the meeting could note the nervous, the doubts and the happiness of all students after oral expositions of their communications. 

 Full General auditorium to listen Professor Gines Morata (Premio Principe de Asturias 2007) Yesterday 27th of April Malaga.

There were easy and difficult questions from other students, teachers or researchers in all sessions. All the communications have their opportunity, except ours; it was a pity. And it was a nice opportunity lost, because, a PIIISA project without students is not a PIIISA project.

Anyway, PIIIISA must go on. We have next appointments to show and demonstrate what we did and how we did!!! We have to acknowledge to Javier Caceres, the real promoter of this project, for giving us the opportunity to participate (at least in the documents) of this incredible Meeting.

Come on 2e Team.

Hip hip Hurra!!!!

Dr Francisco Martinez-Abarca
Department of Microbiology
Estación Experimental del Zaidin

C/ Profesor Albareda n 1
18008 Granada
Spain

April-May

The critical final months of every PIIISA Project are already here.

First, and after considering all we made during this course, we finished a Summary of our work for the first of the meetings held in Malaga on 27th of April.

Fig 1: Abstract of the Congreso General PIIISA 2016 Málaga

This Abstract will included in the Congress Book in the First PIIISA meeting of this year.

Fig 2: Announcement of Malaga Congress (27th April 2016)

It is our first communication in one of the PIIISA congress of this year. Unfortunately, as it is mentioned in the document, we are not going to assist in to this congress. However, the summary and probably the Poster will be included in all the documents. 

In addition, Yesterday (20th of April), we practised as a first time, our oral presentation (see in resources the first draft of the slides).

We considered all the facts, and understand  the importance of any presentation is that the audience know our work, what we alredy did!!!. 

In the Speech, people has to be aware what we are telling but not how we are telling.

We analyzed all the slides, corrected some of them and calculating more or less the time of exposition. We also elaborated a script for the whole presentation and practise to be in the right time for the exposition: 7-8 min. After practising several folds (3-4 times), we adquired confidence to give a nice speech clarifing what we made and the real conclussions we present of our project. At the end, also several putative questions were studied in order to expect which could be… . In my experience never occurs as we planify but…

Several things are still pending: the final poster structure, and the final manuscript: proceedings. Remember the deadlines!!!

Do not forget: 

-22th April. Dead line for my own ideas…

-Thursday 5th of May. First congress; it will be held on IPBlN-CSIC (http://www.ipb.csic.es/)

Dr Francisco Martinez-Abarca 

Department of Microbiology

EEZ.CSIC 

Preparing our first oral presentation

Last day (4th of April) was a strange day… Only talking, only thinking, only deciding what order of the three important tasks we are conducting: manuscript, poster and finally the oral presentation… . However, after the whole session we found out we did not miss our time.

Thus,

-The structure of the Poster has been decided; photographs.

-Also the main scaffold of the oral presentation.

-And all the figure legends and how the reader must reach to our conclussions of the work in the manuscript.

Yes!!!,  we have a plan; and only the final steps remain to be completed. 

On a Next and decissive appoinment we must conclude we are perfectly prepared to astonish to a general audience about our fantastic project which has transformed us.

Students at the begining; just arrive to the lab (November 2015).

Students current state: experts in a microbiology lab.

On the other hand,  it would be highly recommended that you visit the following video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DE5fid23nlM&feature=youtu.be (min 16:25-22:50)

It is a good example how we can do it!!!. Come on it will be a fantastic ending of our project.

Hip, hip Hurra!!.

Do not forget:

Important dates:

Next session: Thurday 21th April at 16:30. Salon de Actos EEZ.

22th April. Dead line for my own ideas…

Thursday 5th of May. First congress; it will be held on IPBlN-CSIC (http://www.ipb.csic.es/)

Dr Francisco Marti­nez-Abarca
Department of Microbiology
EEZ.CSIC.