Poster Guidelines

Please plan on attending the CUTC Poster Session, or better still, submitting a poster.
The poster session provides researchers a chance to interact with peers and exchange ideas. It also offers the opportunity to showcase your research to a broad range of the corn industry-from producers to end users. Additionally, there are a number of representatives of organizations that fund research at the conference.

To support and to encourage new researchers, the National Corn Growers association (NCGA) is pleased to present the Corn Utilization and Technology Conference Outstanding Poster Award.
Evaluation Criteria for Posters:

• Open to graduate students
• Relevance to the corn growing and dry grind processing/wet milling industries
• Aflatoxin/Mycotoxin reduction/elimination research during crop production, storage and processing
• Scientific originality
• Valid and supportable conclusions
• Oral and visual presentation

To be eligible for student poster awards, student must be available to answer questions on the presented materials and be registered for CUTC.

Posters will be judged throughout the conference by a committee composed of personnel from various corn processing industries, academics and government scientists. Awards will be made to the top three student posters! The mycotoxin posters will be judged separately and awards will be made to the top three student mycotoxin posters as well!

A poster summary (maximum of one page) is required to be considered for presentation. Submitting the one page summary in no way precludes publication of the material in scientific or trade publications. 

The summary must adhere to the following requirements:

• One inch margins on each of the four sides.
  
  
• All materials must be typed single spaced using 12 point font with Times New Roman type.
  
  
• Any tabular material must be incorporated into the text (they should have clear, complete titles and column headings). Using Arabic numerals in parentheses, literature citation shall be cited in numerical order set on the next line, as they appear in the text. 
  
  
• Center the TITLE (all caps) at the top of the page. Allow two blank lines above the TITLE and the author’s name(s).
  
  
• Use an asterisk to identify the author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
  
  
• Include the phone number of the primary author.
  
  
• Please submit your poster abstract by email in a Microsoft Word document to wright@ncga.com no later than April 6, 2012.   

Each poster will be placed on one side of a 4’ x 8’ board.

Additional space, easels, chairs and tables will be furnished upon request (please make the request at least 4 weeks prior to the conference).   Presenters who wish to use a computer are strongly encouraged to have a laptop with adequate battery power in case electrical outlets are not available. Poster positions will be assigned by the Committee.  

If you have special needs for your poster, please let us know prior to the conference (NOTE: this may result in a cost to the presenter). All special arrangements must meet all safety requirements of the hotel and the conference organizers.  Industrial organizations are encouraged to participate as poster presenters.

Displays of new products, technologies and processes are welcomed.  Handouts, such as copies of the one page summary and business cards, are at the discretion of the presenter.  

Posters will be set up between 12:30 - 4:30 p.m. on Monday, June 4, 2012 and left up through 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, June 6, 2012.

Posters should be attended during the following conference breaks.

Monday: 5:30 - 9:00 p.m.
Tuesday: 7:00 - 8:30 a.m., 12:00 - 2:00 p.m. and 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Wednesday: 7:00 - 8:30 a.m. and 12:00 - 2:00 p.m.

To be eligible for student poster awards, student must be available to answer questions on the presented materials and be registered for CUTC. 

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The first 100 to register are automatically entered to win an Apple iPad!

For more information, please contact Sandra Wright at 636-733-9004, or by email at events@ncga.com