MBio Graduate School Three Minute Thesis Competition

Congratulations to Mohsin Sarwar from the Department of Pharmacology for winning the MBio Graduate School Three Minute Thesis competition held on 18 July, 2011.  Mohsin gave an excellent presentation on his doctoral research "The Mechanisms of Relaxin’s Cardioprotective Effects”. 

Second place went to Priyangi Alwis from the Department of Microbiology for her presentation on the “Characterisation of Burkholderia pseudomallei Two-Component Signal Transduction Systems”.

Third place went to Sarah Wilkinson from the Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology for her presentation on “Prostate Cancer: The Unusual Suspects”.

Mohsin and Priyangi, who won $600 and $300 conference grants respectively, went onto represent the School of Biomedical Sciences in the Faculty Three Minute Thesis Competition.

Also, congratulations to all of our other Departmental finalists who won their respective Departmental competitions:

Kevin Lee – Department of Physiology

Anna Davey – Department of Pharmacology

Greg Davis – Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Courtney McDonald – Monash Immunology and Stem Cell Laboratories

Justin Chen – Prince Henry’s Institute of Medical Research/Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology

Jessica Wisniewski – Department of Microbiology

Stephanie Simonds – Department of Physiology

Miranda Wills – Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Shawna Farquarson – Department of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences

Timothy Williams – Monash Immunology and Stem Cell Laboratories

Thanks to all staff and students, including students from the John Monash Science School, for coming to hear our research students talk about their theses.