News & Achievements
Samson Agboola International Travel Grant
We are very pleased to announce that Soumi Paul Mukhopadhyay has been awarded the inaugural 2013 Samson Agboola International Travel Grant. The grant of $1000 will go towards travel to the 10th Panborn Sensory Science Symposium in Brazil in August 2013.
Soumi is undertaking a PhD in food science focussing on consumer preference for cooked chickpeas, aimed at informing pulse breeders on desirable sensory traits of pulse varieties.
Associate Professor Samson Agboola was a world class researcher who passed away in 2012 whilst teaching and researching at CSU.
Faculty Seed Grants - 2013
We are very pleased to announce that several Faculty of Science researchers were successful in 2013 Faculty Seed Grants.
- Why is the design of the spermatozoon of Australian mammals so variable across species?
Rhett McClean
$4926.00 - Rural Health managers' perspectives on whether current rural nursing roles need to be enhanced by formal education in small rural health services
Margaret Adams
$3130.00 - Can interference of GIP activity modulate GPCR's for therapeutic gain?
Ken Chinkwo
$5000.00 - Induction of oxidative stress as an approach for chemotherapy of cancer
Christopher Parkinson
$9000.00 - The Mitochondrial Genomes of selected Zoonotic Animals
Shookoofeh Shamsi
$9000.00 - Detection and differentiation of salmonella spp, using PCR and HR melt (PCR-HRM) Curve analysis.
Ali Ghorashi
$5000.00 - Effect of carbohydrate on the growth and composition of grapes.
Inigo Auzmendi
$4962.00