Royal Society of New Zealand Travel Grants - March 2007

The Royal Society of New Zealand has recently allocated funding to enable 24 students enrolled for their PhD degrees at New Zealand Universities to attend their first overseas science or technology conference, summer school or workshop. Forty-four applications were received. The successful applicants are:

Lindsea Booth, Department of Physiology, The University of Auckland, Experimental Biology Annual Meeting 2007, late April/early May 2007, Washington DC, USA

Dana Campbell, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Auckland, XXXth International Ethological Conference 2007, August 2007, Nova Scotia, Canada

Jeremy Corfield, Department of Anatomy / School of Biological Sciences, The University of Auckland, Eighth International Congress of Neuroethology, July 2007, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Megan Dowie, Department of Pharmacology / Department of Anatomy with Radiology, The University of Auckland / Howard Florey Institute, University of Melbourne, (1) 17th Symposium on the Cannabinoids, late June/early July 2007, Saint-Sauveur, Quebec, Canada, AND (2) International Brain Research Organisation World Congress of Neuroscience, July 2007 Melbourne, Australia

Sam Edwards, Department of Chemistry, University of Canterbury, 55th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry, June 2007, Indianapolis, USA

Matthew Goddard, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Otago, International Behavioral Neuroscience Society (IBNS), 16th Annual Meeting, June 2007, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Catherine Goodfellow, Department of Pharmacology, The University of Auckland, 17th Symposium on the Cannabinoids, late June/early July 2007, Saint-Sauveur, Quebec, Canada

Natasha Grimsey, Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacology, The University of Auckland, 17th Symposium on the Cannabinoids, late June/early July 2007, Saint-Sauveur, Quebec, Canada

Ronny Groenteman, School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury / LandCare Research / Agresearch Ltd, XII International Symposium on Biological Control of Weeds, April 2007, Montpellier, France

Sarah Hopkins, Liggins Institute, The University of Auckland, American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) 54th Annual Meeting, late May/early June 2007, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Jessica Jor, Bioengineering Institute, The University of Auckland, 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, August 2007, Lyon, France

Charlotte Kay, School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, 33rd Annual ABA (Association for Behavior Analysis) Convention, May 2007, San Diego, California, USA

Daniel Leduc, Department of Marine Science / Department of Zoology / Department of Chemistry / Department of Botany, University of Otago, 13th International Meiofauna Conference, late July/early August 2007, Recife, Brazil

Megan Livingston, Department of Microbiology, University of Otago, 13th International Congress of Mucosal Immunology, July 2007, Tokyo, Japan

Robert McKay, Antarctic Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington, 10th International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences (ISAES) 2007, late August/early September 2007, Santa Barbara, California, USA

Willy-John Martin, School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington / Malaghan Institute of Medical Research, Wellington, Keystone Conference - The Macrophage: Homeostasis, Immunoregulation and Disease, April 2007, Copper Mountain, Colorado, USA

Dion O'Neale, Institute of Fundamental Sciences (Mathematics), Massey University, (1) Isaac Newton Institute Workshop on Highly Oscillatory Problems: Computation, Theory and Applications, late March/early July 2007, Cambridge, UK, AND (2) International Conference on Scientific Computation and Differential Equations, July 2007, Saint-Malo, France, AND (3) Dundee Conference on Numerical Analysis, June 2007, Dundee, UK

Jeremy Owen, School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, ASM Pseudomonas 2007 Conference, August 2007, Seattle, Washington, USA

Jennifer Pevreal, Department of Psychology, University of Waikato, 2007 Mind and Life Summer Research Institute, June 2007, Garrison, New York, USA

Patrice Rosengrave, School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury / Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada, Biology of Spermatozoa – 2007, September 2007, Peak District National Park, England

Dean Singleton, Auckland Cancer Society Research Centre, The University of Auckland, American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2007, April 2007, Los Angeles, California, USA

Kenneth Tran, Bioengineering Institute, The University of Auckland, Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Conference, September 2007, Los Angeles, USA

David Young, Department of Biochemistry, University of Otago, Ribosomes: Form and Function, June 2007, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA

Lin Zhang, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Auckland, XIX World Congress of the International Society for Heart Research, June 2007, Bologna, Italy