Royal Society of New Zealand Travel Grants

September 2006

The Royal Society of New Zealand has recently allocated funding to enable 15 students enrolled for their PhD degrees at New Zealand Universities to attend their first overseas science or technology conference, summer school or workshop. Twenty-eight applications were received. The successful applicants are:

Victoria Adlam, Department of Chemistry, University of Otago, 13th Annual Meeting of the Society for Free Radical Biology and Medicine 2006, 15 - 19 November 2006, Denver, Colorado, USA

Jenny Clarkson, Department of Physiology, University of Otago, Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting 2006, 14 - 18 October 2006, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Peter Freestone, Department of Physiology, The University of Auckland, American Society for Neuroscience (SFN) Annual Conference, 14 - 18 October 2006, Atlanta USA

Hazel Gatehouse, Bioprotection and Ecology Division, Lincoln University / Landcare Research, Neobiota - from Ecology to Conservation - 4th European Conference on Biological Invasions, 27 -30 September 2006, Vienna, Austria

Katherine Gendall, Department of Biochemistry, University of Otago, (1) Wellcome Trust Advanced Course - Design and Analysis of Genetic-based Association Studies, 3 - 7 October 2006, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK, AND (2) American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting, 9 - 13 October 2006, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Andrew Graham, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Auckland, (1) The 2006 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 9 - 15 October 2006, Beijing, China AND (2) The 1st International Symposium on Digital Manufacture (ISDM), 16 - 17 October 2006, Wuhan, China

Nicola Jackson, Department of Molecular Medicine and Pathology, The University of Auckland, 12th International Symposium on Staphylococci and Staphylococcal Infections, 3 - 6 September 2006, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Suneeth Mathew, Department of Biochemistry, University of Otago, Translational Control, 6 - 10 September 2006, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, USA

Hayden Melton, Department of Computer Science, The University of Auckland, OOPSLA2006: Conference on Object Oriented Programming Systems Languages and Applications, 22 - 26 October 2006, Portland, Oregon USA

Matthew Rayner, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Auckland, 4th North American Ornithological Conference, 3 - 7 October 2006, Veracruz, Mexico

Christopher Rumball, Liggins Institute, The University of Auckland, (1) Development Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) Conference, 13 - 16 September 2006, Utrecht, Holland AND (2) Fetal and Neonatal Physiological Society (FNPS) Meeting, 17 - 20 September 2006, Cambridge, UK

Anya Seward, Institute of Geophysics, Victoria University of Wellington, 2006 AGU Fall Meeting, 11 - 15 December 2006, San Francisco, California, USA

Annalisa Swan, Bioengineering Institute, The University of Auckland, Xth Oxford Conference on Modelling and Control of Breathing, 19 - 24 September 2006, Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada

Janine Wright, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Otago / Landcare Research, The Wildlife Society 13th Annual Conference, 23 - 27 September 2006; Anchorage, Alaska, USA

Karen Young, Department of Psychology / Department of Physiology / Department of Anatomy & Structural Biology, University of Otago, The 17th European Network on Hyperkinetic Disorders (EUNETHYDIS) Meeting, 5 - 8 October 2006, Brugge, Belgium