2025 ICOB Poster Competition
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2025 ICOB Poster Competition
The 2025 ICOB poster competition will be held on November 6th. Poster competition offers a great chance to interact with colleagues and to encourage young researchers to attend academic seminars. Please submit your English abstract before 5 pm of October 17th by using the following link: https://forms.gle/A6QgEyS8yS6uq9pNA
Procedure: On the competition day, all posters should be set up before 10 am on the first floor (Poster board: wide 90cm* height 120cm). To encourage interactions among ICOB members and contestants themselves, we will invite all ICOB members to join the activity from the morning of the competition day. Contestants will be divided into 2 batches based on the odd and even number of the poster number. Contestants should present their poster at the scheduled time of their batch in the morning (Odd number: 10:00-11:00; Even number: 11:00-12:00) so they may have the chance to interact with other contestants during the non-scheduled time. All contestants should present their posters from 13:00-14:30 for PI evaluation. In addition, a 5-minute oral presentation power point is highly recommended for every presentation.
Evaluation: The evaluation will be conducted into 2 phases, both being ranking-based. In the preliminary phase (13:00-14:30), ICOB PIs will serve as judges and select 2 posters from each poster group for the 2nd phase. The 2nd phase contestant list will be announced before 15:00 on the 1st floor. In the 2nd phase (15:00-16:00), each contestant will be given 5 minutes, for English oral presentation (including Q and A) in the auditorium. Please prepare Power Point slides for a 5-minute “flash talk” in advance. All PIs are judges in the 2nd phase.
Judging and weighting criteria
1st phase: abstract (30%), research merit (30%), poster design (20%), presentation skill (20%). 2nd phase: research merit (60 %), presentation (40%, including time control, ppt design, etc.)
For Most Popular Poster Award evaluation, ICOB students, research assistants, and postdocs can participate as a judge (except for PIs). We will give everyone stickers (5 votes) on site to put on a voting board from 14:00- 14:40 for favorite posters. Contestants shall not vote for himself or herself, and people shall not vote for the same poster more than once.
Awards:
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Outstanding Poster Award winners (salary funded by Academia Sinica) may receive subsidy for either one overseas or one domestic academic seminar. (NT$50,000 for overseas academic seminar or NT$5,000 for domestic academic seminar).
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Excellent Poster Award winners (salary funded by Academia Sinica may receive NT$5,000 as the subsidy for one domestic academic seminar. Subsidies need to be reimbursed on an accountable basis in 2026 (from Jan. 1st 2026 to Dec. 15th 2026).
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Most Popular Poster Award winners will receive a certificate of merit.
PS. 1: If you have won the poster award, please do not use the same content for this year’s competition. You must self-disclosure the years and awards you have won.
PS. 2: For poster winners, please leave your poster on the poster board for one-year display. For the rest of the participants, please remember to take down your poster by 16:30.
November 6, 2025
09:00-10:00 Poster setup
10:00-11:00 Poster presentation (Odd number) 11:00-12:00 Poster presentation (Even number)
13:00-14:30 Poster presentation and evaluation (all contestants)
14:00-14:40 Most popular poster award voting (all participants can vote except for PIs) 14:30-15:00 Break
15:00-16:00 Oral presentations of selected posters (1F auditorium; all PIs) 16:00-16:20 Coffee Break
16:20-16:30 Award ceremony