What do we need to learn from your presentation?

1. What do we need to learn from your presentation? • Signaling pathway (new/reference to other students) • Oncogene/TSG (specific mutations?) • What it does in normal and cancer cells • Experimental data • Brief description of the disease • The gene’s involvement in this cancer (mechanisms; specific to that cancer?)

2. You can go either way Gene to disease Disease to gene Whatever you do, remember to be straightforward, and NOT confusing (this is our role here)

3. See the forest from the trees - You have 12 minutes (+2 for discussion) - 10 – 12 slides - Don’t flood us with data (one picture is worth a thousand words) - Finish with the big picture The most frustrating part in being a teacher: “I learned so much, I want to tell all those wonderful stories, but I can tell only 10% of what I know (and Mark and Gidi will think I don’t know a whole lot)”

4. What is required from you - Use reviews as a starting point - Use primary literature (with data) - Plan your outline (even without pictures) and send it to Mark or Gidi - Meet us at least a week before your presentation - Presentations must be submitted to Gidi until 8:00 pm, the day before your presentation

5. Some tips • Red on blue: no,no,no • Not too many dark backgrounds • Font: at least 28 and not too “artistic” • Boring dark and white is bad, too colorful is just as bad Web Pathology, Genitourinary Tract. (2008). Hepatosplenic T-cell Lymphoma. Retrieved March 18, 2009 from Web site: webpathology.com/image.asp?case=378&n=15

6. Remember we need to see your slides - You get points for your knowledge, not for the way you present - However, think about you friends • Red on blue/or any dark color: no,no,no • Not too many dark backgrounds • Font: at least 28 and not too “artistic” • Boring black and white is bad, too colorful is just as bad