VICTORIAN ASM BRANCH AWARD
The Victorian ASM branch award is presented annually to one student member from the Victorian branch of the ASM, to enable them to attend the annual scientific meeting of the ASM. It is awarded to the best student presenting research carried out as part of a Masters by Coursework or an Honours degree and consists of conference registration and, if the meeting is interstate, a travel allowance (e.g. airfare or accommodation) to attend the meeting.
Applications for 2024 are now closed
Prize Details
• Certificate
• Full conference registration for the ASM Annual Scientific Meeting
• $400 towards flights and accomodation*
*Only awarded if the meeting is interstate
Eligibility Requirements
• Be a current Honours or Masters by Coursework student at a Victorian university
• Not have previously received this award
• Be a student member of the ASM*
*If not currently a student member, applicants must be eligible for membership and must pay for such at the time of application for the Award
Assessment
• Finalists for the award will be selected based on abstract
• All finalists will give a 5-minute presentation during our annual ASM Nancy Millis Student Awards night
• The best presenter will be awarded the Victorian ASM Branch Award
ASM Vic Branch Award Winner 2024
Winner
”CdspoCR_R disruption impairs CdSpoCR-medaited cephamycin resistance in Clostridiodes difficile”
—Georgie Gilmore, Monash University
Previous winners
2023
”The effect of childhood vaccination on the pneumococcal population in Mongolia”
—Paige Skoko, MCRI
2022
”A modern-day detective: Finding a way to use bioinformatics tools to detect stx1/2 genes in STEC isolates”
—Raquel Cooper, University of Melbourne
2021
”Network Phylogeny: Serratia Phages in a Sea of Sequences”
—Beau Patrick, La Trobe University
2020
”Host recovery following Clostridioides difficile infection”
—Ashleigh Rogers, Monash University
2019
"Investigation of pneumococcal gene expression associated with pneumonia pathogenesis”
—Yinglei (Jenny) Hua, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute
2018
”Characterisation of a novel bacteriophage and its use in therapies against bacteria associated with bovine mastitis”
—Stephanie Lynch, La Trobe University
2017
”Exploring syntrophic interactions between electrogens”
—Brittney Phillips, La Trobe University
2016*
”Possible synergistic roles of the enteropathogenic Escherichia coli type III effectors NleB and NleF”
—Georgina Pollock, University of Melbourne
*There were no applicants for the Victorian ASM Branch Award, so this award was given to the first runner up for the ASM Nancy Millis Student Award