Student Achievements in 2009

• Sarah Stephenson won Best Talk at the Combine Student Symposium
  
  
• Anna Serlachius won a travel grant from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
  
  
• Melody Menezes won the best student oral presentation prize at the Australian Society of Genetic Counsellors meeting in Freemantle, May 2009
  
  
• Ruth Nicholls, from the Language and Literacy Group, has presented her work at The International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB7) at Utrecht, The Netherlands
  
  
• Libby Smith, from the Language and Literacy Group, has received $6000 from the “Daphne Elliot Bursary from the Australian Federation of University Women” –South Australia Trust Fund Inc
  
  
• Boris Novakovic, from the Developmental Epigenetics Group, has received a “New Investigator Travel Award” from the International Federation of Placenta Associations
  
  
• Belinda McClaren, from Genetics Education and Health Research, has been awarded a “New Investigator Prize” at the 2009 Human Genetics Society of Australasia Annual Scientific Meeting, Fremantle
  
  
• Steven Nasioulas, from Molecular Genetics Laboratory and Bruce Lefroy Centre, has received a Victorian Branch Travel award ($500) from the Human Genetics Society of Australasia , and a New Investigators award ($500) from the Molecular Genetics Human Genetics Society of Australasia , to present his work at the 2009 Genes for Health conference, Human Genetics Society of Australasia, Fremantle
  
  
• Melody Menezes has been awarded a Harold Mitchell foundation travelling fellowship to present her PhD work on health professionals' experiences working in the area of foetal anomaly at two international conferences in the United States and three grand rounds presentations at hospitals in Canada
  
  
• Alison Archibald gave her PhD completion seminar at the Genetic Health Services Victoria departmental seminar: "A double-edged sword": perceptions about population carrier screening for fragile X sydrome
  
  

Student Publications

• Gordon CT, Rodda FA, Farlie PG The RCAS retroviral expression system in the study of skeletal development.Developmental Dynamics (Review). 2009; 238(4):797-811.
  
  

Thesis Submissions

• Hasherah Ibrahim (March) Language and Literacy Group
• Ruth Nicholls (June) Language and Literacy Group
• Novita Puspasari, Bruce Lefroy Centre for Genetic Health
• Gabrielle Wilson, Bruce Lefroy Centre for Genetic Health
• Amy Nisselle submitted her PhD thesis in July, titled "Miss, it's cool but I don't understand it!": An investigation of educational technologies used to teach genetics in Australian secondary schools.