Safina Poster Prize
The future of bio-medical research is in safe and exciting hands judging by the quality, variety and scope of presentations made by students at both a Poster Evening and Postgraduate Symposium staged by the Otago School of Medical Sciences at the Otago Museum’s Hutton Theatre.
Twenty-one post grad students (including two from the University of Queensland’s School of Biomedical Sciences) were joined at the event by Prof Vernon Ward, Dean of the OSMS, and Prof Greg Cook of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology.
Also attending were Associate Professors Conrad Sernia and Peter Noakes from the University of Queensland who delivered a talk ‘The training of a global scientist: current experience and future directions’.
Topics covered by the posters and the presentation talks underlined the passion, commitment and ingenuity of the students who dealt with subjects ranging from latest brain research including tumours to Parkinson’s disease, the treatment of drug resistant TB and colorectal cancer to the use of microbial communities as a diagnostic tool for farm soil health.
The winners of the poster event were: 1st - Safina Gadeock (Physiology: Enteroids- a model of the colonic epithelium in IBD)