AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS 2009 •••
Achievements
Degrees Awarded
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Professor Robert Graham
Adam Hill
Alfred Hing
Awarded an AO in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for service to medicine, particularly through stewardship of the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute and research in the field of molecular cardiology.
Elected NSW State Representative for the Australian Society for Biophysics.
Won the inaugural NSW Fulbright Australia-America Commission Fellowship for 2010.
Awarded his PhD at the University of New South Wales (Faculty of Medicine, St. Vincent’s Clinical School). Alfred’s project “Optimising the quality of donor organs for transplantation: Studies of hormone resuscitation of the brain-dead multi-organ donor and the development of a long-term preservation strategy to optimise function of the transplanted heart in a porcine model” demonstrated that the use of hormone resuscitation of the organ donor improved the quality and function of the donor heart.
Paul Korner Seminar Series 2009
Jacque-Lynne Johnson
Awarded the “Best PhD Student Talk” for his presentation “Molecular Architecture of the T.thermophilus A-ATPase Stator Complex”.
Lawrence Lee was the winner of the 2009 Paul Korner Seminar Series with Sharon Chih and James Chong the runners up. The Staff Choice Awards were presented to both Chris Blair and Liz Yeo.
Christiana Leimena
Cheryl Li
Received The Miltenyi Biotech Student Poster Prize at the 19th St. Vincent’s & Mater Health Sydney Research Symposium.
Awarded best oral presentation from a student at the Annual Epigenetics Conference in Melbourne.
Awarded her PhD at the University of NSW (Faculty of Medicine). Jacque-Lynne’s project: “The role of the zebrafish scube gene family in Hedgehog signaling and slow muscle development” investigated how this family of three genes interacted with the Hedgehog pathway to specify slow muscle cell fate in the developing zebrafish embryo. Jacque-Lynne showed that all three scube genes were required for slow muscle development and functioned redundantly in slow muscle specification acting upstream of the obligate receptor patched. JacqueLynne was awarded an International Postgraduate Award from the University of New South Wales to undertake her PhD at the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute.
Lawrence Lee Awarded the “Best Postdoc Talk” for his presentation “The structure of the torque-generating ring of the bacterial flagellar motor and the molecular basis for the rotational switching at the 2009 East Coast Protein Meeting”.
Alastair Stewart
Cheryl Li Received the Genesearch Award for Excellence in Oral Presentation at the 19th St. Vincent’s & Mater Health Sydney Research Symposium.
Professor Richard Harvey Won the Australian and New Zealand Society of Cell and Developmental Biology President’s Medal and Oration (presented at Combio 2009).
James Chong
Carol Mak BE Bioinformatics Honours Class.
VCCRI ANNUAL REVIEW 2009 43.