HealtheX 2018
Oral presentation - Doctoral category winners
Farha Ramzan – AMRF Outstanding Emerging Researcher Award
Title: Comprehensive profiling of the circulatory miRNAome response to a high protein diet in elderly men
Liggins Institute
Supervisor: Professor David Cameron-Smith
Sam Blanchett – AMRF Doctoral Oral Presentation Runner Up Award
Title: PilVax: a novel peptide carrier for the development of vaccines against tuberculosis
Department of Molecular Medicine and Pathology
Supervisor: Associate Professor Thomas Proft
Rebecca Griffith – Second Runner Up Doctoral Oral Presentation Award
Title: Dextrose gel for prevention of neonatal hypoglycaemia may improve motor, language, and executive function in two-year-olds
Department of Paediatrics, Child, and Youth Health
Supervisor: Dr Jane Alsweiler
Oral presentation - Non-doctoral category winners
Grace Borichevsky – Best Non-Doctoral Oral Presentation Award
Title: To Wnt5b or not to Wnt5b: Understanding the role of Wnt5b in lymphatic specification
Department of Molecular Medicine and Pathology
Supervisor: Dr Jonathan William Astin
Micah Daniel Austria – First Runner Up Non-Doctoral Oral Presentation Award
Title: Characterising the vascular changes in the Alzheimer's disease human brain using tissue microarrays
Department of Anatomy and Medical Imaging
Supervisor: Dr Malvindar Singh-Bains
Sarah Maessen – Second Runner Up Non-Doctoral Oral Presentation Award
Title: Risk of obesity and short stature for women whose mothers smoked during pregnancy
Liggins Institute
Supervisor: Dr Jose G B Derraik
Poster presentation category winners
Luis Knight – AMRF Best Poster Presentation Award
Title: The Role of the Cystine/Glutamate Antiporter in Glutamate Metabolism in the Mouse Retina
Department of Physiology
Supervisor: Dr Julie Lim
Yukti Vyas – First Runner Up Poster Presentation Award
Title: Shank2 Changes in Shank3-/- Autism Mouse Model
Department of Physiology
Supervisor: Associate Professor Johanna Montgomery
Jason Yeung – Second Runner Up Poster Presentation Award
Title: Characterisation of Glutamate Receptor Changes in an In Vivo Mouse Model of Alzheimer's Disease
Department of Anatomy and Medical Imaging
Supervisor: Dr Andrea Kwakowsky
Elevator pitch category winners
Joyce Mathan – Maurice and Phyllis Paykel Trust Best Elevator Pitch Presentation Award
Title: Keratoconus in Down syndrome: more common than anticipated!
Department of Ophthalmology
Supervisor: Professor Charles McGhee
Hannah Ng – FMHS Postdoc Society First Runner Up Elevator Pitch Presentation Award
Title: Vision for the Future: Bio-engineering Transition Zone Stem Cells into Corneal Endothelium for Human Transplantation
Department of Ophthalmology
Supervisor: Professor Dipika Patel
Daniel Ho – FMHS PGSA Second Runner Up Elevator Pitch Presentation Award
Title: Developing individual risk scores using the SNP tissue functional load and Machine Learning
Liggins Institute
Supervisor: Dr Justin O’Sullivan