SDB 2011: Posters!

Those of you who've been to a poster session at a science meeting know that they're noisy and chaotic and entirely reliant on interaction to work…so I'm not even going to try and describe it. Instead, I strong-armed Eric Röttinger into describing his poster on video for me, and here it is. He's describing his work on Kahikai, an online database for collecting information about the development of marine invertebrates.

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