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 (15 minutes). The awards allow us to provide students presenting at the conference with constructive feedback and celebrate their achievements​

Congratulations to the winners for VicBioCon26! 

  • Best Student Full-length Talk

    Winner:
    Meg Farmer
    (Deakin University)
    “The population dynamics of Long-nosed Population during a feral cat eradication program”

    Runner-up:
    Sam Girvan
    (University of Melbourne)
    “Using experimental burns to examine greater bilby associations with fire mosaics”

  • Best Student Speed Talk

    Winner:
    Ainslie MacDonlad
    (University of Melbourne)
    “Synergies and trade-offs of carbon and biodiversity in Victorian grazing systems”

    Runner-up:
    Sarah Yong
    (Deakin University)
    “Exploring the Influence of a Light Festival on Microbats in Melbourne”

  • Best Poster

    Winner:
    Venice Chan
    (University of Melbourne)
    “Going out with a bang: Frogs increase their reproductive effort when threatened by deadly disease”

    Runner-up:
    Tasman Sadler
    (La Trobe University)
    “Investigating the impacts of invasive trout species on Australian alpine macroinvertebrates”

Call for judges

If you are interested in providing your expertise to help support our student presenters please get in touch so you can be notified about juding at VicBioCon27.