Announcement: Successful E&ERC Start-Up Postgraduate Grants
Published on the 25 Jul 2013
Congratulations to this year's successful E&ERC Start-Up Postgraduate Grant awardees. Competition was high this year and thank you to all the applicants. We would also like to acknowledge the efforts of our education committee who had a tough job ranking applications: Rhiannon Dalrymple (postgrad rep), Alex Campbell, Angela Crean, Mattias Hagman and Terry Ord (Deputy Director of the E&ERC Graduate Program).
The E&ERC Start-Up Postgraduate Grant awardees were:
Simone Birrer (Johnston Lab): "Opposition in the seabed: resistance, resilience and function of sediment microbial communities in a microplastic ocean"
Amany Gouda-Vossos (Brooks Lab): "Contest Outcome and Sexist Attitudes"
Alyssa Gibson (Brooks Lab): "Effects of induced oxidative stress on sexual signalling and aggression in male mice"
Kylie McQualter (Leggett Lab): "Ecology and conservation of Botswana's giraffes"
Floret Meredith (Moles Lab): "Testing assumptions about plant defence and herbivory on islands"
Cristina Acasuso-Rivero (Rogers Lab): "Comparative study of the effects of environmental variance due to captive conditions in the bottle nose dolphin (Tursiops truncates)