EMBL Australia Post-Graduate Symposium Student Awards

EAPS Welcoming address with Kay Myo Min (pictured top) and Mary Mansilla (pictured below)

EMBL Australia Post Graduate Symposium (EAPS) showcases work from students and a range of guest speakers from across the nation. 

The seventh annual EAPS was focussed around the title 'To Innovation and Beyond: A New Decade for New Breakthroughs' - in acknowledgement of the challenges the dawning of this decade has presented to the scientific research community, and reflected in the online delivery of this year's event.

Organised by a diverse committee of exceptional postgraduate students around Australia, EAPS was an invaluable opportunity for emerging scientists to increase their knowledge about current research in life sciences, be inspired by the career progression of pioneering researchers, and share their own exciting work to fellow peers.

Hudson Institute of Medical Research students were strongly represented with Mary Mansilla hosting the conference as Co-Convenor of the 2020 EAPS Executive Committee. A range of presentation awards were won by our students, including Sigrid Petautschnig and Elly Jarred for their work in understanding how information is passed through non-genetic mechanisms to offspring in whom this inherited epigenetic information alters growth, brain development and behaviour. Rheannon Blucher was recognised for her work on mechanisms of cell communication and early sperm precursor cell differentiation in the developing testis.

Awards

Sigrid Petautschnig, a PhD student in the Germ Cell Development and Epigenetics Research group, for third place in the EAPS oral presentations: Talk title - Epigenetic programming in the oocyte modulates brain development and behaviour in offspring (10 min talk plus 5 min questions).

Rheannon Blucher, a PhD student in the Germ Cell Development and Epigenetics Research group, for first place in the EAPS first year posters: Talk/Poster title - MEK1/2 regulates male germline development independently of FGF9 (3 min talk plus 5 min questions).

Ellen Jarred, a PhD student in the Germ Cell Development and Epigenetics Research group, for second place in the EAPS third year posters: Talk/Poster title - PRC2-dependent oocyte epigenetic programming regulates developmental gene expression, offspring growth and behaviour (3 min talk plus 5 min questions).

If you are interested in joining the 2021 EAPS Executive Committee, please contact Mary Mansilla or fill in the Expression of Interest form by 8pm AEDT Wednesday, 16 December 2020.