Student Prizes

Several prizes were awarded to students at the GSA 2004 Conference.   The names of the prizes and the recipients are listed below:

Smith-White Travel Prize

Spencer 'Spinny' Smith-White was a founding member of the Genetics Society of Australia. The Smith-White Travel Prize provides for an annual award of up to $1,750 to assist a postgraduate student member of the GSA to attend overseas conference. Applications for this Prize were received before the conference.

  Name Julia Jones  
  Address School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney  
  Project The Genetics of Thermoregulation in Honey Bee Colonies  
  Conference Third European Congress on Social Insects. St Petersburg, Russia.  

 

Mayo Prize

Valued at $500 this Prize was awarded for the best talk given by a Ph.D. student at the GSA conference. The Prize honours the contribution to GSA and,, more generally, to Australian Genetics by Drs Jean and George Mayo.

  David Field    
  Field, D. , Young, A., Whelan, R. and D. Ayre    
  Swamping the Swamp Gum: Habitat fragmentation and disturbance promotes hybridisation in Eucalyptus aggregata    
       

 

Sidney James Prize

Valued at $500 this Prize was awarded for the best poster presentation by a Ph.D. student. The Prize honours the contribution to GSA and, more generally, to Australian Genetics by the late Dr. Sid James.

  Dawar Hussain    
  Hussain , D., Sherson, S. M., Wong, E., Sinclair, S. A., Camakaris, J. and Cobbett, C. S.    
  P-type ATPase heavy metal transporter genes involved in essential zinc homeostasis in Arabidopsis thaliana    
       

 

AGRF Prizes

Thanks to the generous support of the Australian Genome Research Facility two other prizes each worth $300 was awarded for student presentations at the Conference.

  Poster:    
  Derek Collinge    
  Collinge, D ., Whyard, S. and Behm. C.    
  Weapons of mass transformation: Biolistic DNA delivery in Helicoverpa armigera.    

 

  Talk:    
  Melanie Norgate    
  Department of Genetics, University of Melbourne    
  Norgate, M. , Southon, A., Farlow, A., Wei, E., Camakaris, J., Batterham, P. and Burke, R.    
  Characterisation of the dmATP7 copper transporter in Drosophila melanogaster    

 

Elsevier Australia P/L Prizes

Thanks to the generous support of the Elsevier Australia P/L two book vouchers each worth $275 was awarded for student presentations at the Conference.

  Poster:    
  Kerstin Bilgmann    
  Bilgmann, K. , Moller, L. M., Harcourt, R. G., Kemper, C. M. and Beheregara, L. B.    
  Comparative population genetic structure of Indian ocean bottlenose dolphins ( Tursiops aduncus ) and short-beaked common dolphins ( Dolphinus delphis ) in South Australian waters.    

 

  Talk:    
  Simon Baxter    
  Department of Genetics, University of Melbourne    
  Baxter, S ., Zhao, J-Z., Gahan, L. J., Shelton, A. M., Tabashnik, B. E. and Heckel, D.    
  Novel genetic basis of field-evolved insect resistance to Bt toxin    

 

McGraw-Hill Australia Prize

Thanks to the generous support of the McGraw-Hill Australia one book voucher worth $250 was awarded for a student presentation at the Conference.

  Talk:    
  Kate Hodges    
  Hodges, K ., Keogh, S. and Rowell, D.    
  Comparative phylogeography of the water skinks Eulamprus heatwolei and Eulamprus tympanum in southeastern Australia, with comparisons of codistributed invertebrates at Tallanganda, NSW.