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STMM Summer Symposium 2025

The STMM Summer Symposium provides a forum for debate and scientific exchange among doctoral students of all research areas within the Medical Faculty Mannheim, as well as from partnering institutions. Invited speakers will offer interesting insights into translational research.

As last year, we expect an exciting line-up that will showcase engaging science from health and life sciences research. All doctoral students are encouraged to participate. Early career researchers will have the opportunity to present and discuss their own research in the form of a poster, poster and flash talk, or selected short talk.

Preliminary program:

Morning: Impulse talk, selected short talks, flash talks, poster sessions A&B, workshops

Further details can be found in the abstract book, which we will regularly update here.

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(last updated (27/06/2025)

Afternoon: Inaugural Ceremony and Presentations by Medical Faculty Early Career Researchers

Included: Snack lunch, coffee breaks and afternoon get-together

Guidelines for presenters

Poster guidelines

Our poster boards will fit posters in portrait orientation up to size A0.

Inform yourself whether your institute or department has specific design guidelines (logo, font, …) that you should follow.

If you wish, you may also use the corporate design for posters provided by the FGV Zentrum: https://www.umm.uni-heidelberg.de/fakultaet/fgv-medienzentrum/download/

Whether this is your first poster or you just want a refresher, you can find a free online tutorial on the University of Heidelberg Graduate Academy's website - Nature Masterclasses: https://www.graduateacademy.uni-heidelberg.de/karriere/naturemasterclasses.html (Look for the course ‘Creating successful research posters’)

Poster award: all posters will be evaluated for a poster award:

  • Best scientific poster: evaluated by a jury of principal investigators, this award is given for scientific merit.
  • Best poster design: evaluated by the audience, this award is given for visual appeal, clarity, and design.

Speaker guidelines

Learning goals for presenters of short talks and flash talks: concisely and engagingly explain complex scientific concepts or findings to a non-specialist audience

Short talk guidelines

Please include one or more slides that explain, in a way accessible to a broad audience, the background of your project and the methodology used.

Flash talk guidelines

Please prepare a graphical abstract of your research. Rules (adapted from the Three-minute-thesis competition):

  1. A single static slide is permitted. No slide transitions, animations or 'movement' of any description are allowed. The single slide should not simply be a snapshot of your poster nor one slide with animations that walk through the panels of your poster.
  2. The slide is to be presented from the beginning of the flash talk.
  3. No additional electronic media (e.g. sound and video files) are permitted.
  4. Presentations are limited to 3 minutes maximum. Presenters exceeding 3 minutes will incur a penalty at the poster awards.
  5. Consider finishing on a question to incite your audience to go and see the poster
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