2014 News archive
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| November 2014 |
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| Vicki Xie was awarded a Milstein Travel Award 5 November 2014 |
| USyd iGEM team win bronze medal 5 November 2014 |
| September 2014 |
| Markus Hofer Wins the 2014 Selby Research Award 22 September 2014 |
| Suzie Ferrie - 2014 PG Travelling Scholarship Winner 22 September 2014 |
| Smart phone and smarter approaches to the fruit and veg failure 15 September 2014 |
| July 2014 |
| Kim Bell-Anderson awarded the Nutrition Society of Australia Mid-Career Travel Grant 10 July 2014 |
| June 2014 |
| Dr Kim Kaufman awarded travel grants 6 June 2014 |
| May 2014 |
| Prof Tony Weiss wins Research Excellence Award 1 May 2014 |
| Australian Society for Microbiology Success 1 May 2014 |
| March 2014 |
| University of Sydney Honours Scholarship awarded to Stephanie Drake 12 March 2014 |
| Medal of the Order of Australia 12 March 2014 |
| January 2014 |
| 13th Bosch Young Investigators Symposium 2 January 2014 |
Vicki Xie from the Campbell lab was awarded a Milstein Travel Award to present her work at the recent Annual General Meeting of the International Cytokine and Interferon Society (ICIS) "Cytokines: Down Under 2014: From Bench to Beyond", held in Melbourne on 26-29th October.
Congratulations USyd iGEM team!
Markus Hofer has been awarded one of two 2014 Selby Research Awards. This award is given by the Faculty of Science to an academic within five years of their first appointment as a Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in the physical, chemical or biochemical disciplines to establish their research career.
Suzie Ferrie, recipient of the 2014 SMB & Thermo Fisher Greg Ralston Postgraduate Travelling Scholarship, has just returned from the 2014 Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, which was held from 5-9 September in Geneva.
The reasons behind why Australians, especially young Australians, eat a fraction of the recommended serves of fruit and vegetables was discussed at a Sydney Ideas event at the University of Sydney on Thursday, 4 September.
This is a competitive award that recognises and encourages original research by mid-career NSA members. To be eligible, the applicant must have been awarded their PhD 5-15 years ago, who since January last year has published a nutrition research paper in a high quality international journal.
Dr Kim Kaufman has been awarded travel grants.
Prof Tony Weiss was awarded the top prize by the Australasian Society for Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering (ASBTE) at its recent annual conference.
Robert Moran and Chris McKenzie, PhD students in the Hall and Newsome Labs respectively, were among the six finalists for the 2014 Becton Dickinson Student Award and took out the top two prizes. 
SMB Honours student, Stephanie Drake, has been awarded a University of Sydney Honours Scholarship for 2014.
Professor Ruth Hall was awarded Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for her services in the field of Microbiology.
Vicki Xie, a PhD student in the Campbell lab, won a poster prize worth $250 at the 13th Bosch Young Investigators Symposium held at New Law School, University of Sydney on Wednesday 11th December 2013. Her poster presentation was entitled "Interferon Regulatory Factor 8 (IRF8) Regulates the Microglial Response to Neuronal Injury". She was also a lucky draw winner of a bottle of Tollana Bin TR16 Shiraz (Eden Valley, 2005) courtesy of Peprotech, which was donated to the lab Christmas party!