DiscoBio News

Congratulations to Dr Amy Jones who won the Judges’ choice at Fresh Science Southeast Queensland.   This was a public science night where Amy presented ‘New drug to fight neglected tropical disease’ in the time it took a party sparkler to burn out! Fresh Science Southeast Queensland also ran a day of media and communication training at the University of Queensland.

Congratulations to Dr Amy Jones who has been awarded a CASS Travel Grant to attend the ASM (American Society of Microbiology) Microbe Meeting held June 16th-20th 2016, Boston, USA where she has been invited to give an oral presentation. She was also successful in being awarded an ASM travel award valued. These awards covered the cost of travel, accommodation and registration.

Congratulations to Thilini Perera who completed her Master of Science with Honours with Class I Honours and received a PhD scholarship for full tuition fee and living expenses.

Congratulations to Dr Amy Jones who received an ASP travel award to attend the EuPathDB Workshop in Melbourne from 15-19th Feb Melbourne 2016. This award covered the cost of the course and accommodation.

Congratulations to Dr Carrie Lovitt who was awarded 1st prize in the Eskitis Institute Photography Competition for her image ‘Landscape of breast tumour cells’.