Young Scientist Awards
2011
| Name | Award received |
|---|---|
| Jessica Rickard |
Best overall 1st year student |
| Ashlie Hartigan | Best Presentation award at the Australian Society for Parasitology Conference |
| Mary Abdelsayed | The Dairy CRC Forum 2011 Student Presentation Award |
| Simon Firestone |
Best Oral presentation by a student at the "Sydney Emerging infectious Disease and Biosecurity Conference. |
| Matthew Van de Saag |
"Early Stage" presentation at the Faculty of Veterinary Science Postgraduate Conference. |
| Jeffery Go |
"Middle Stage" presentation at the Faculty of Veterinary Science Postgraduate conference. |
| Hayley Pearson and Joanna Whitney Equal Winners |
Final Stage Presentation at the Faculty of Veterinary Science Postgraduate conference. |
| Tenzin |
Best Poster at the Faculty of Veterinary Science Postgraduate Conference. |
| Justin Ng |
"Early Bird Abstract Award" at the Faculty of Veterinary Science Postgraduate Conference. |
| Vidya Bhardwaj |
A finalist for the advanced flow cytometry prize awarded by Becton Dickinson. |
| Helen Golder |
Best Paper award at the 2011 Dairy Research Synposium |
| Greg Tuckett |
Best Poster award at the Australian Pig Science Association 2011 Conference |
2010
| Name | Award |
|---|---|
| Sam Hamilton (PhD candidate) |
Won the inaugural John (Carl) Petersen Award for Best Paper in the Australian Veterinary Journal for the paper “Are the Australian poultry industries vulnerable to large outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza?” Hamilton SA, East IJ, Toribio J-A and Garner MG. Aust Vet J, 2009;87:165–174. |
| Jeffery Go | Vice-Chancellor's Research Scholarship, Jeffery is the first recipient of this scholarship in the faculty. |
| Santiago Farina | The Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry 2010 Young Dairy Scientist Communication Award. |
| Jessica King | Invasive animals CRC award for Investigating the role of wildlife and wild canids in transmission of Neospora caninum. http://www.invasiveanimals.com/about/our_students/jessica_king/index.html |
|
Jessica Fletcher |
Won a best poster prize “Gene expression profiling in canine fucosidosis.’ at the International Canine and Feline Genomics Conference! |
|
Rayson Tan |
Has been selected as a 2010 Morris Animal Foundation Veterinary Student Scholar, for his research “Genomic Studies into Canine Mast Cell Tumours”. |
| Michael Campbell | Won the Dairy Australia-sponsored Young Scientists Award at the Dairy Research Foundation Symposium this year. |
| Helen Golder | Runner up to the Dairy Australia-sponsored Young Scientists Award at the Dairy Research Foundation Symposium this year |
| Ashlie Hartigan | Australian Society for Parasitology - Network Travel Award awarded the prestigious JD Smyth Postgraduate Travel Award for Ashlie‘s Researcher Exchange to The Academy of Sciences, Institute of Parasitology in Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic "for the purpose of travelling overseas to gain knowledge on techniques that may not be available in Australia, to form liaisons that may benefit their careers in the longer term and to promote the cause of parasitology in Australia. |
| Vidya Bhardwaj |
Awarded the James Ramage Wright award for 2010 |
| Shyamala Thirunavukkarasuwas | Awarded a Faculty Postgraduate scholarship |
2009
| Name | Award |
|---|---|
| Michael Bertoldo | DAFF Science and Innovation Award |
| Camilla Whittington | Fulbright fellowship will allow Camilla to study for 12months at the Washington University Genome Sequencing Centre (GSC). |
| Emily Wong | Has been accepted into the EMBO-Institute Pasteur Bioinformatics and Comparative Genome Analysis at the HKU- Pasteur Research Centre Hong Kong |
| Michael Bertoldo | Was awarded the MLA New Scientist Award for the best student oral presentation at the annual conference of the Society of Reproductive Biology. |
| Anna Do | Awarded for her poster presentation at the International Symposium on Genetics in Aquaculture (ISGA) in Bangkok. |
| Hannah Siddle | Awarded the NHNRC Fellowship |
| Katrina Morris | Awarded the University Medal |
| Camilla Whittington | Awarded the Terry Amundson Award for best student presentation at the International Conference of the Wildlife Disease Association |
2008
| Name | Award |
|---|---|
| Kao Castle | Student presentation award at the Australasian Equine Science Society. |
| Sabrina Lomax | Best student presentation at the First North American Conference on Epidemiology and Welfare at Ames, Iowa. |
| Jessica King | Runner up at the Invasive Animals CRC conference in Darwin. |
| James Neal | Young Dairy Scientists Communication Award, Australian Dairy Science Conference. |
| Camilla Whittington | Mayo Award for best student presentation at the Genetics Society of Australasia. |
| Kath Briscoe, Amy Aspley Davis & Shanaka Saratchandra | Passed the Australian College of Veterinary Scientists (ACVSc) Membership Examinations in small animal and feline medicine. |
2007
| Name | Award |
|---|---|
| Kiri Beilby | Meat and Livestock Australia New Scientist Award, Australasian Society for Reproductive Biology (SRB) meeting in Christchurch, New Zealand. |
| Kao Castle | Runner-up, Welcome Trust and New Scientist essay writing competition. |
| Cathy Chan | Young Speaker Prize, ACVSc Conference, Brisbane. |
| Navneet Dhand | Chris Baldock Prize |
| Elissa Kluger | Equal First Prize in the Young Speakers Program, The Australian College of Veterinary Scientists Science Week |
| Michelle Lepherd | Australian Society for Veterinary Pathology Young Presenters Award. |
| Hannah Siddle | Best Overall Student Presentation, Genetics Society Australasia Conference. |
| Mini Singh | Young Scientist Award for best poster, AAABG conference, UNE; Best Poster, Genetics Society Australasia Conference, University of Sydney; Best Presentation Award at Dairy CRC Annual Conference; Young Scientist Award for best presentation at the Dairy Research Foundation (DRF) Symposium |
| Shelley Underwood | Young Scientist Communication Award at the Australian Dairy Conference. |
| Camilla Whittington | Best presentation in Comparative Genomics, Genetics Society Australasia Conference. |
| Emily Wong | Best Student Presentation, BioInfoSummer. |