Bullivant Oral and PSNZ Poster Awards
The prize is awarded for the Best Student Presentation at the Society's Annual Scientific Meeting.
2011 Winner (Best Oral Presentation) - Yimin Yao
Yimin Yao from the University of Otago has won the Mary Bullivant Prize for Best Oral Presentation, presenting his research on treating diabetic kidney disease using chronic bilateral renal denervation (BRD).
2011 Winner (Best Poster Presentation) - Su Young Han
Su Young Han from the University of Otago has won the Mary Buillivant Prize for Best Poster Presentation for her work on investigating the potential role of vasopressin neurons in the development of hypertension. Please see the newsletter for more details on both winners.
Previous Recipients
The prize is awarded for the Best Student Presentation at the Society's Annual Scientific Meeting.
- 2010 Michel Herde (Oral), Univ. of Otago (Physiology and Centre of Neuroendocrinology) GnRH neurons project dendrites into the OVLT
- 2010 Natalie Joe (Poster), Univ. of Otago (Physiology and Centre of Neuroendocrinology) Modulation of dehydration-induced increases in magnocellular neurosecretory cell activity by glial neurotransmitter transporters
- 2009 Shel Yeo (Oral), Univ. of Otago (Physiology) Rostral periventricular kisspeptin neurons project to the arcuate nucleus in adult female mice.
- 2009 Mike Gill (Poster), Univ. of Otago (Physiology), The small intestine of the brushtail possium, Tricosurus vulpecula, a model of electrogenic and electroneutral HCO3- secretion.
- 2008 Joanne Davidson (Oral), Univ. of Auckland (Physiology), Stopping the spread: Connexin hemichannels in hypoxic=-ischemic brain injury.
- 2008 Rachel Cheong (Poster), Univ of Otago (Physiology), Estrogen-induced ERK1/2 phosphorylation in the GnRH neuron in vivo.
- 2006 Charlotte Butler-Munro (Oral), Department of Physiology, University of Otago – The Electrophysiological Effects of Lithium on Central Neurons in vitro
- 2006 Linda Zhang, Department of Physiology (Poster), University of Auckland – Mechanisms Underlying STZ-induced diabetic cardiomyopathy (DCM)
- 2005 Jenny Clarkson (Oral), Department of Physiology, University of Otago – Identifying Kisspeptin Neurons in the Mouse
- 2005 Joshi Purva (Poster), Department of Physiology, University of Auckland – Quantitative Microsctructure of Trabeculae Carnae
- 2004 Tina Chang (Poster), Department of Physiology, University of Otago - Interaction Between the Delta Subunit of Epithelial Sodium Channel (?ENAC) and a Copper Toxicosis Related Protein Murr1.
- 2004 Fiona McBryde (Oral), Department of Physiology, University of Auckland - Can Chronic Unloading of Arterial Baroreceptors Cause Hypertension?
- 2003 Angus JC McMorland, Department of Physiology, University of Auckland -Glutamate alters the morphology of dendritic spines in motoneurons
- 2002 Angus C Grey, Department of Physiology, University of Auckland - Differentiation-Dependent Insertion of MP20 into Fibre Cell Membranes Restricts the Extracellular Space in the Rat Lens
- 2002 Rachel T Whitehead, Department of Physiology, University of Auckland - Ryanodine Receptor Expression in the Rat Cochlea
- 2000 Adele J Pope, Department of Physiology, University of Auckland
- 1999 Juanita Jellyman, Department of Physiology, University of Otago
- 1999 Gareth Miles, Department of Physiology, University of Auckland
- 1998 Grant D Searchfield, Department of Physiology, University of Auckland
- 1997 Nicole JF Hodgetts, Department of Physiology, University of Auckland
- 1997 Miriam A Young, Department of Anatomy & Structural Biology, University of Otago
- 1996 Ivana Erac, Department of Physiology, University of Auckland
- 1995 Karen C Peebles, Department of Physiology, University of Otago
- 1993 Kathryn M Buller, Department of Physiology, University of Otago
- 1993 Nick P Raybould, Department of Physiology, University of Auckland
- 1992 Andrea L Vujnovich, Department of Physiology, University of Auckland
- 1991 Richard B Wong She, Department of Physiology, University of Auckland
- 1990 Bernadette A Murphy, Department of Physiology, University of Auckland
- 1989 Danny Flanagan, Department of Zoology, University of Otago