Beginning Scientists
March 2000 allocation
The Royal Society of New Zealand has recently allocated funding to enable
19 students enrolled for their PhD degrees at New Zealand Universities to attend
their first international science or technology conference overseas. Thirty
six applications were received. The successful applicants are:
Karen Barwell, Department of Biochemistry, University of Otago; 8 th
International Congress on Ceroid Lipofuscinoses, 20 - 24 September 2000, Oxford,
UK
Paul Brewin, Department of Marine Science, University of Otago; 9 th
Deep-Sea Biology Symposium, 25 - 30 June 2000, Galway, Ireland
Trevor Carey-Smith, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of
Canterbury; 9 th International Workshop on technical and scientific
aspects of MST radar, 13 - 17 March 2000, Toulouse, France
Christina Clapp, Department of Chemistry, University of Auckland; 198
th Meeting of the Electrochemical Society, 22 - 27 October 2000,
Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Melanie Davidson, Soil, Plant and Ecological Sciences Division, Lincoln
University; Third International Crop Science Congress 2000, 17 - 22 August 2000,
Hamburg, Germany
Kirsten E Franklin, Department of Physics, University of Otago; Polarisation
Effects in Lasers, Spectroscopy and Optoelectronics, 6 - 9 September 2000, Southampton,
UK
Sarah-Jane Guild, Department of Physiology, University of Auckland; Baroreflex
and Cardiovascular Variability Conference, 7 - 9 April 2000, Berlin, Germany
and Experimental Biology 2000, 15 - 18 April 2000, San Diego, USA
Gary Houliston, Department of Plant and Microbial Sciences, University
of Canterbury; 4 th Hieracium Workshop, 31 May - 5 June 2000, Niederspree,
Oberlausitz, Germany
Bettina Ikenasio, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University
of Auckland; The Endocrine Society 82 nd Annual Meeting, 19 - 25
June 2000, Toronto, Canada
Rachel Keedwell, Institute of Natural Resources, Massey University; 2
nd Southern Hemisphere Ornithological Congress, 27 June - 2 July
2000, Brisbane, Australia
Rachel McPherson, Department of Pharmacology, University of Auckland,
Joint meeting of the Australasian Society of Clinical and Experimental Pharmacologists
and Toxicologists, 25 April - 6 May 2000, Melbourne, Australia
Ocean Mercier, Physics Department, Victoria University of Wellington;
American Physical Society March Meeting 2000, 20 - 24 March 2000, Minneapolis,
Minnesota, USA
Leanne O'Brien, Department of Zoology, University of Canterbury; North
American Benthological Society Meeting, 28 May - 1 June 2000, Colorado USA
Andres Pantoja, Department of Physics, Victoria University of Wellington;
American Physical Society March Meeting 2000, 20 - 24 March 2000, Minneapolis,
Minnesota, USA
Matthew Phelan, Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory, University of Waikato;
Prehistory of the West and Central Pacific during the last 5000 years, 19
- 23 June 2000, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Stephen Reay, School of Forestry, University of Canterbury; IUFRO World
Forestry Congress, 7 - 12 August 2000, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Rebecca Lee Roberts, Gene Structure and Function Laboratory, Christchurch
School of Medicine; Impact of Genomics on Medicine and Pharmacogenomics Europe,
15 - 18 May 2000, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Sally-Anne Turner, Institute of Food, Nutrition and Human Health, Massey
University; 1 st International Conference, Biology, Chemistry and
Therapeutic Application of Nitric Oxide, 3 - 7 June 2000, San Francisco, California,
USA
Robin Turner, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of
Canterbury; 15 th Australian Statistical Conference, 3 - 7 July 2000,
Adelaide, South Australia
