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).

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At VicBioCon22, these awards were presented to:

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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'

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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?'

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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)'

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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?'

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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'

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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)'