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January 14, 2005
A science student from the University of New England is one of four undergraduates from universities throughout Australia and New Zealand who have won 2004-2005 summer scholarships to pursue their passion for research in genetics.
Cara Evans won a Genetics Society of Australasia Summer Research Studentship to isolate specific genes in a fungus (Aspergillus nidulans) that is of particular interest to geneticists.
Working with UNE geneticist Associate Professor Margaret Katz since the beginning of the summer break, Cara has already had promising results. Her work will add to our understanding of the functional relationship between certain genes and a class of enzymes that play a role in the development of diabetes in humans and regulate seed germination in plants.
Each of the Genetics Society studentships is worth $4,000; half of that amount comes from the Society and half from the research institution (in Cara’s case, the School of Biological, Biomedical and Molecular Sciences at UNE). This funding represents a stipend for the 10-week duration of the project.
Cara, from Sydney, is entering the third year of her Bachelor of Science (Advanced) degree program this year, and would like to continue to an Honours year and a PhD in microbiology/genetics. She said she had been “over the moon” when she heard about the scholarship, as she hadn’t been expecting anything of the sort.
“It’s great experience,” she said. “I’m not only having heaps of fun, but I’m getting a step ahead by learning techniques I’ll need in third-year Science.”
The Genetics Society of Australasia will publish Cara’s research results in its newsletter and on its Web site.
Media contact: Jim Scanlan, Public Relations, UNE (02) 6773 3049 or Cara Evans via e-mail: cevans23@pobox.une.edu.au.
The photograph of Cara Evans in the laboratory displayed here is available from Jim Scanlan on (02) 6773 3049.
Posted by Jim Scanlan at January 14, 2005 04:06 PM