Honours and Postgraduate Students Presented Ongoing Research

The Third Annual BABS Symposium was held at the Swiss Grand Hotel in Bondi. Attendees listened to 19 oral presentations and viewed 47 poster presentations.



Sponsorship enabled the awarding of the following prizes


Best Oral presentation ($250.00) sponsored by Bio-Rad:
Scott Melville for his talk entitled "Identification of the neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis gene in Border collies"

Runner-up Oral Presentation ($250.00) sponsored by Oxoid:
Lisa Rodgers for her talk entitled "Investigating the structural evolution of sol-gel matrices for immobilisation of enzymes"

Best Poster by Postgraduate student ($250.00) sponsored by Qiagen:
Katherine Jackson for her presentation entitled "Establishing criteria for the identification of IGHD genes in rearranged
human immunoglobulin heavy chains"


Runner-up Poster by Postgraduate student ($125.00) sponsored by Progen Biosciences:
May Reodica for her presentation entitled "The expression of meiotic genes during mitosis: the contribution of
developmental gene repression"

Best Poster by Honours student ($250.00) sponsored by Promega:
Elise Tu for her presentation entitled "Use of a commercial enzyme immunoassay for the detection of norovirus in stools."

Runner-up Poster by Honours student ($125.00) sponsored by Eppendorf South Pacific:
Alex Eng for his presentation entitled "The effect of enteral nutrition on the intestinal microbiota of children with Crohn's Disease"