Presentation Feedback - 8th October 2010

The feedback given after presenting to Anil Wipat's group:

Concrete slides

• Should talk slower
• Remove the slide that have the crack with the lady
• Compact the concrete slides
• More pictures
• Say we did concrete experiment like cracking
• Have a picture with us in hard hats and our team t-shirt in the concrete lab
• Have a slide that says why is concrete bad
• Change the man's carbon footprint wording
• Remove the pie chart away, if not redraw it with the words bigger and explain it slowly

Logo slide

• Put text on top of logo

Animation slides

• Increase the text size
• Make the contrast for the cracks better
• Cells in the purple to show glue, filamentous and calcium carbonate

Industrial process slide

• To have picture on teh side of the words

Ethic and safety slides

• Say wild type is an autotroph that cannot convert trytophan, therefore it will die in the wild

MazF slides

• Have to explain the toxin if you are talking about it
• Try to cut down on it.
• Say we would have to test the kill switch

Swarming slides

• Have to describle swarming
• Picture to be bigger
• Cut down on words
• Need modelling picture and describle how to did it and with what software and equation

Subtilin slides

• Change the diagram or redraw
• Change the p_veg promoter to Pveg promoter

Calcium carbonate slides

• Show the pathway and where it interacts
• Flux balance analysis

Filamentous slides

• Explain what ftsZ ring is about
• Change the white text
• Remove '!'

YneA slides

• Text to be bigger
• Remove the vector and starch testing pictures
• Words to be bigger
• Remove the word extremely
• Need numbers

Workflow

• Make sure the animation is working

e-science

• Name the logo
• Remove pegusus
• Synthetic spelled wrongly
• Cannnot use BioBrick it
• Remove the promoter and sequence pictures

Summary slides

• Less busy

Apply to all slides

• Text to be bigger
• No full stop
• No '!'
• Change the green background