Royal Society of New Zealand Travel Grants

March 2005

The Royal Society of New Zealand has recently allocated funding to enable 35 students enrolled for their PhD degrees at New Zealand Universities to attend their first international science or technology conference overseas. Seventy-two applications were received. The successful applicants are:

Katherine Bell, Institute of Food, Nutrition and Human Health, Massey University, 2005 International Nutritional Sciences Symposium, 15–18 September 2005, Washington DC, USA

Jeremy Bryant, Institute of Veterinary, Animal and Biomedical Sciences, Massey University, (1) 56th Annual Meeting of the European Association for Animal Production (EAAP), 5–8 June 2005, Uppsala, Sweden AND (2) XX International Grasslands Congress Satellite Workshop - The utilization of grazed grass in temperate animal systems, 3–6 July 2005, Cork, Ireland

Francis Collins, School of Geography and Environmental Science, The University of Auckland, 10th International Metropolis Conference, 17–21 October 2005, Toronto, Canada

Brett Davis, Department of Chemistry, University of Canterbury, 96th American Oil Chemists’Society Annual Meeting, 1–4 May 2005, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

Scott Dickie, Department of Chemistry, University of Otago, 79th ACS Colloid and Surface Science Symposium, 12–15 June 2005, Potsdam, New York, USA

Matthew Duignan, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, Victoria University of Wellington / School of Music, Victoria University of Wellington / Human Oriented Technology Lab, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, International Computer Music Conference, 5–9 September 2005, Barcelona, Spain

Scott Duncan, Body Composition and Metabolism Research Centre, Auckland University of Technology, Seventh International Symposium In Vivo Body Composition Studies (BC2005), 7–9 September 2005, Southampton, UK

Andrew East, Institute of Food Nutrition and Human Health, Massey University / Food Science Australia, Applications of Modelling as an Innovative Technology in the Agri-Food Chain, 29 May–2 June 2005, Leuven, Belgium

Scott Ferguson, Department of Microbiology, University of Otago, Gordon Research Conference: Molecular and Cellular Bioenergetics, 26 June–1 July 2005, Meriden, New Hampshire, USA

Damien Fleetwood, Institute of Molecular BioSciences, Massey University/AgResearch, 23rd Fungal Genetics Conference at Asilomar, 15–20 March 2005, Pacific Grove, California, USA

Claire French, Department of Anatomy with Radiology, The University of Auckland, 17th Meeting of the International Association of Forensic Sciences, 21–26 August 2005, Hong Kong

Beth Geraghty, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Canterbury, International Tsunami Symposium 27–29 June 2005, Chania, Crete

Zoë Hilton, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Auckland, 10th Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, 15–20 August 2005, Krakow, Poland

Katrina Humphrey, Department of Psychological Medicine, The University of Auckland, European Health Psychology Society (EHPS) Conference: Enhancing Individual, Family and Community Health, 31 August–3 September 2005, Galway, Ireland

Stephen Jamieson, Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacology, The University of Auckland, 96th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), 16–20 April 2005, Anaheim, California, USA

Rilla Khaled, School of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, Victoria University of Wellington, 7th International Workshop on Internationalisation of Products and Systems, 7–9 July 2005, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Adrian Kitson, Institute of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, QFEXT’05: Quantum Field Theory Under the Influence of External Conditions, 5–9 September 2005, Barcelona, Spain

Kelvin Lau, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Auckland, 8th Symposium on Bacterial Genetics and Ecology, 26–29 June 2005, Villeurbanne, Lyon, France

Hayden Lawrence, New Zealand Centre for Precision Agriculture, Massey University, European Conference for Precision Agriculture, 9–12 June 2005, Uppsala, Sweden

Cheng-Mee (Jimmy) Leong, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, DNA Tumour Virus Meeting 2005, 19–24 July 2005, Cambridge, UK

Celia Lie, Department of Psychology, University of Otago, (1) Association for Behaviour Analysis 31st Annual Convention, 27–31 May 2005, Chicago, Illinois, USA, AND (2) Society for the Quantitative Analyses of Behaviour Conference, 26–28 May 2005, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Priscilla McAllum, School of Mâori and Pacific Development, and the Department of Biological Sciences, University of Waikato, Ecological Restoration Conference, 12–18 September 2005, Zaragoza, Spain

Helena Ostrovsky, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Auckland, Australasian Society for Immunology Meeting, 4–8 December 2005, Melbourne, Australia

Esther Pearl, Department of Biochemistry, University of Otago, RapiData 2005, 10–15 April 2005, Brookhaven, New York, USA

Amy Pietersma, Institute of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Pacifichem 2005, 15–20 December 2005, Honolulu, Hawaii

Kylie Quinn, School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington/The Malaghan Institute of Medical Research, Wellington, The Keystone Symposium for Tuberculosis: Integrating Host and Pathogen Biology, 2–7 April 2005, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada

Saskia Righarts, Department of Psychology, University of Otago, Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Conference, 7–10 April 2005, Atlanta, USA

Kara Swanson, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, IDF international Mastitis Conference, 12–15 June 2005, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Jacqueline Tither, Department of Psychology, University of Canterbury, 2005 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, 7–10 April 2005, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Andrea Tritton, Department of Molecular Medicine & Pathology, The University of Auckland, 30th Annual International Herpesvirus Workshop, 30 July–5 August 2005, Turku, Finland

Suzanne Vallance, Environment, Society and Design Division, Lincoln University, Making Cities Livable, 20–24 June 2005, Venice, Italy

Scott Walker, Institute of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, The 6th Tetrahedron Symposium ‘Challenges in Organic Chemistry’, 29 June–1 July 2005, Bordeaux, France

Vikki Weake, Institute of Molecular BioSciences, Massey University, Keystone Symposia: Chromatin Modification Pathways (C7), 31 March–5 April 2005, Utah, USA

Celia Webby, Institute of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Pacifichem 2005, 15–20 December 2005, Honolulu, Hawaii

Kirsty Whitehead, Department of Psychology, University of Otago, 9th European Congress of Psychology, 3–8 July 2005, Granada, Spain