Student Awards

Research students at the Faculty of Veterinary Science are attending conferences and giving oral and poster presentations with great success both nationally and internationally.

Presenting at conferences is a great way to show the scientific world the results of your work and is good experience for your future career development, too.

It doesn't stop here though - many of your colleagues are winning awards at these conferences. Others are getting papers published in impressive journals and receiving other prizes for their work.

Here, we would like to acknowledge their achievements and say a big CONGRATULATIONS to them for their successes.

2008

The first award of the year has gone to James Neal who has won the Young Dairy Scientists Communication Award at the Australian Dairy Science Conference in Tasmania.

Kao Castle was awarded the prize for Best Student Presentation at the Australasian Equine Science Society Symposium in the Gold Coast for her talk on 'The Epidemiology and Genetic Basis of Osteochondrosis in Australian and New Zealand Thoroughbred Horses'.

2007

Mini Singh has been very successful this year winning both the Young Scientist Award for best poster at the AAABG conference at UNE and Best Poster at the Genetics Society Australasia Conference held at The University of Sydney. In addition to those, she has also added the following two awards to her belt: Best Presentation Award at Dairy CRC Annual Conference and Young Scientist Award for best presentation at the Dairy Research Foundation (DRF) Symposium.

Kiri Beilby in her first ever conference presentation, won the Meat and Livestock Australia New Scientist Award at the Australasian Society for Reproductive Biology (SRB) meeting in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Kao Castle made her group very proud by writing about her postgraduate studies and winning herself a year's subsccription to the magazine when she won a runner-up prize in the Welcome Trust and New Scientist essay writing competition.

Cathy Chan was awarded the Young Speaker Prize at the ACVSc Conference in Brisbane and will be starting her Masters next year after completing an exceptional postgraduate internship.

Navneet Dhand won the Chris Baldock Prize for achieving the highest score this year in the membership examinations for the ACVSc Epidemiology Chapter. Both he and Samuel Hamilton successfully completed these this year.

Elissa Kluger won Equal First Prize in the Young Speakers Program at The Australian College of Veterinary Scientists' Science Week whilst Michelle Lepherd won the Young Presenters Award at the Australian Society for Veterinary Pathology.

Hannah Siddle won Best Overall Student Presentation at the Genetics Society Australasia Conference at the University of Sydney and has also had her paper on Tasmanian Devil Facial Tumour Disease accepted for publication in PNAS.
"Transmission of a fatal clonal tumor by biting occurs due to depleted MHC diversity in a threatened carnivorous marsupial" Hannah Siddle, Alex Kreiss, Erin Noonan, Mark Eldridge, Stephen Pyecroft, Greg Woods and Kathy Belov.

Shelley Underwood won the Young Scientist Communication Award at the Australian Dairy Conference with her presentation about sex-sorted bull sperm.

Camilla Whittington was awarded Best Presentation in Comparative Genomics at the Genetics Society Australasia Conference held here at The University of Sydney and Emily Wong who works in the Australasian Wildlife Genomics Group with Camilla and Hannah, won Best Student Presentation at BioInfoSummer.

Postgraduate Conference Winners - The Faculty of Veterinary Science Postgraduate Conference had a winning speaker each session and a best poster prize. To see the winners, click here.