Student presentation awards
Each year at VicBioCon, we celebrate our student presenters by awarding prizes for the Best Poster Presentation, Best Speed Talk (5 minutes) and Best Full-length Talk (10 minutes).
At VicBioCon22, these awards were presented to:
Best Poster by a Student - 2nd place:
Nina Roberts, La Trobe University for
'Bringing the yams back: Collaboration with a First Nations
Women’s Knowledge Group in Central Victoria'
Best Poster by a Student - 1st place:
Iris Hickman, La Trobe University for
'Alpine shrub morphology varies with altitude: What are the
implications under climate change?'
Best Speed Talk (5 mins) by a Student - 2nd place:
Hannah Roberts, La Trobe University for
'A novel method of oestrus detection in the captive Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii)'
Best Speed Talk (5 mins) by a Student - 1st place:
Kelly Williams, La Trobe University for
'The bold or the beautiful: Does personality impact translocation success in a vulnerable rodent?'
Best Full-length Talk (10 mins) by a Student - 2nd place:
Jessica Chapman, La Trobe University for
'Factors affecting the capacity of ground foraging insectivorous birds to regulate insects in grazing land'
Best Full-length Talk (10 mins) by a Student - 1st place:
Mikaeylah Davidson, The University of Melbourne for
'Investigation into embryo mortality in the critically endangered Southern Corroboree frog
(Pseudophryne corroboree)'
