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Summer studentship successes

Congratulations to Michael Harrington and Julia Prier who both received Highly Commended Awards for their 2010-11 Summer Student Research Reports.  Julia's project " TCR-dependent, pSTAT5-mediated Compensation of pS6K Signalling in Naïve CD8 T Cells" was performed in Roslyn Kemp's lab and Michael's project "Antibiotic resistance in a diarrhoea-causing microbe" was supervised by Dr Heather Brooks.

OMSRS student speaker award for Clare Burn

Congratulations to Clare Burn for winning the Otago Medical School Research Society student speaker awards that were held May 18th, 2011.  Clare completed a summer studentship with Merilyn Hibma looking at human papillomavirus virus-like particles and their potential as gene delivery vectors in the skin.