last updated 17.March 2025

2025 Annual Research Day

The School of Graduate Studies will hold the centerwide Annual Research Day on Wednesday, March 19^th, 2025.

The day will consist of poster sessions, a platform session for graduate students and the Annual Research Day Dinner.

The 2025 annual Graduate Day lecture, entitled "From a demand-based to a supply-limited view of brain development, function and evolution." will be held on March 19^th at 4pm in the Alumni Auditorium. The speaker will be Suzana Herculano-Houzel, biologist, neuroscientist, researcher, writer, columnist at brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo and Associate Professor in the Departments of Psychology and Biological Sciences at Vanderbilt University. She is also the first female editor-in-chief of The Journal of Comparative Neurology.

Suzana Herculano-Houzel

Participation in Annual Research is mandatory for PhD students in the School of Graduate Studies past their second year, and for MD/PhD students past their 1st year in their PhD training. More junior Graduate students are encouraged to participate.

Only students in the School of Graduate Studies are eligible to compete for awards or present at the platform session, but other entities on the campus may use the Research Day mechanisms present their research findings, and to score and award prizes to their students or employees at the poster sessions.

Participation is encouraged for SUNY Downstate College of Medicine students, Public Health students, College of Nursing students, School of Health Professions students, post-doctoral fellows, graduate medical fellows, residents and undergraduates who are associated with SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University faculty members. Chairs or heads of departments should contact the School of Graduate Studies to identify their participants and who will be receiving the data.

For the poster sessions, the size of the posters is not larger than 60" wide x 40" top to bottom, and the applicant is responsible for producing their own poster. Each participant is allowed a maximum of presenting two (2) posters.

Annual Research Day provides an excellent occasion for the entire Downstate community to share the results of their research efforts.

A link to application and instructions is here, which is live from February 11^th to February 27^th 2025. The full text of the application is here.

The preliminary schedule for 2025 is below, and more information will be added as it is finalized:

Time	Event	Area
9:30am – 11:25am	Poster session A	PHAB A, B, C & D
10:00am – 12:30pm concurrent with Poster Sessions A/B	School of Graduate Studies Oral Platform Presentations. Each presentation is 10min with 5min Q&A	PHAB 2C
11:30am – 1:25pm	Poster session B	PHAB A, B, C & D
2:00pm – 3:55pm	Poster session C - All School of Graduate Studies students this session	PHAB A, B, C & D
4:00pm – 5:30pm	Annual Graduate Day Lecture	Alumni Auditorium, EB
6:00 pm	Annual Research Day Dinner Reservation Form	Taci’s Beyti Turkish Restaurant, 1953 Coney Island Avenue.

To add the complete ARD 2025 agenda to your calendar , click link and open downloaded .ics file.

SGS awards a limited number of prizes and travel fellowships to its students for the best presentations, as determined by judges. The Joe Ma and Sophie Su prizes will be awarded for two platform session presentations and one poster presentation. Additionally, poster session prizes are awarded to Graduate Studies presentations by the School of Graduate Studies.

We look forward to all presentations of Downstate's science.

Poster Printing at Downstate

If you opt to print your poster in-house with the SUNY Downstate Office of New Media Services for the 2025 Annual Research Day, you will need to submit your poster by 5:00pm EST on March 5^th 2025. Unfortunately, late submissions cannot be accommodated.

Submit your poster for printing via the poster submission form
Poster templates are available. The standard size of 48" x 36" is preferred for ease of printing, but any of the templates is fine
The poster board size dictates the maximum size of printed posters, which is a max. 60" wide x 40" top to bottom
Applicant is responsible for producing their own poster. Please discuss payment with your research mentor. Typically, labs will pay the cost of printing. In-house rate is $100 for 36"x48"

For more information, see the general poster info webpage
External printing alternatives. You will have to inquire what their printing time-line is:
- PhDposters
- posternerd (about $40 for 36"x48")
- megaprint
- FedEx
- Kinkos

- Please be aware that external printers will also have varying turnaround times. Same-day or next day printing is hard to find and costly. Please plan your printing accordingly.
- Be careful what you send to outside printers. The in-house people will proofread (a little), but any outside printer will just print what you give them.
Low-budget printing option: Using a regular printer, print out your poster pdf file on Letter sized paper via the tile option in Adobe. Click here for guidance

We will have pins and velcro on the Annual Research Day to attach your posters to our boards.