Faculty of Science and Health
The Symposium is a great opportunity to extend peer networks and learn about the research that is being undertaken by our Higher Degree by Research and Honours students in the Faculty of Science and Health.
The 2024 Symposium will be conducted online this year. It will provide HDR and Honours students an opportunity to showcase their research to their peers in an online conference setting.
We are looking to provide an opportunity to come together in person to meet with staff and fellow students in a supportive environment over in campus lunches on Wednesday 20th November.
Students will present a ten minute seminar on their research, suitable for a non-specialist audience. This will be followed by five minutes of question time. The best HDR seminar and the best Honours seminar will be awarded a monetary prize to be used for professional development.
A selection of posters will be presented online over the days and will also compete for a monetary prize to be used for professional development.
All Faculty of Science and Health HDR and Honours students are invited to attend the online event.
For more information please email FOSH-Ops-Admin@csu.edu.au
Program is now live. - updated 20/11/24
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If you wish to register or have any further questions please email.
Wednesday 20th & Thursday 21st November 2024
Online, please see the program for links.
Download the 2024 Program here!
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| Time | Activity | Stream |
|---|---|---|
9:00am – 9:15am | Introduction and Acknowledgement of Country, hosted by Prof Sandra Savocchia, Sub Dean Graduate Studies, | A |
9:15am – 10:50am | Student presentations – Session 1 Please see presentation schedule or downloadable program, pg 6 - 10 stream links | A, B & C |
10:50am – 11:05am | Break | |
11:05am – 12:40pm | Student presentations – Session 2 Please see presentation schedule or downloadable program, pg 6 - 10 stream links | A, B & C |
12:40pm – 2:40pm | Lunch on Campuses - Information has been provided to those registered for lunch - View all posters on our dedicated web page, live 20th November | |
2:45pm – 4:45pm | Project Management Workshop with Andrew Mashman | A |
4:45pm | First day events conclude |
| Time | Activity | Stream |
|---|---|---|
9:00am – 10:35am | Student Presentations – Session 3 Please see presentation schedule or downloadable program, pg 6 - 10 stream links | A, B & C |
10:35am – 10:45am | Break | |
10:45am – 12:00am | Student Presentations – Session 4 Please see presentation schedule or downloadable program, pg 6 - 10 stream links | A, B & C |
12:00am – 12:45pm | Lunch & Poster Viewing View all posters on our dedicated web page, live 20th November | |
12:45 – 1:40pm | Student Presentations – Session 5 Please see presentation schedule or downloadable program, pg 6 - 10 stream links | A, B & C |
1:40pm - 1:50pm | Break | |
1:50pm – 2:05pm | Maximise Your Research Potential with Charles Sturt Library: Resources, Support, and Success, hosted by Faculty Librarian’s Lorraine Rose and Lyndall Holstein | A |
2:05pm – 2:35pm | The Spatial Data Analysis Network (SPAN) – HDR research support, hosted by Simon McDonald The Quantitative Consulting Unit (QCU) – HDR research support, hosted by John Xie | A |
2:35 – 2:45pm | Break | |
2:45pm – 3:15pm | Safety, Security and Wellbeing; hosted by Dr. Stacey Jenkins, Frank Tamsitt, Melinda Green and Shannon Conn | A |
3:15pm – 3:45pm | Graduate Researcher Training & Support at Charles Sturt; hosted by Graduate Research Team: Monique Shephard & Jen Podesta | A |
3:45 - 4:00pm | Thank you and Close with Sandra Savocchia, Sub Dean Graduate Studies | A |
| Time | Stream A | Stream B | Stream C |
|---|---|---|---|
Meeting ID: 65751097927 | Meeting ID: 65398025685 | Meeting ID: 68563908492 | |
Chair | Prof Sandra Savocchia | A/Prof Sam Pant | Thilini Munasinghe |
Room Co-ordinator | A/Prof Cannas Kwok | A/Prof Sam Pant | Dr David Leaver |
Assessors | Dr Elyce Green & Dr Asad (Md) Asaduzzaman | Dr Lachlan Schwarz & Mrs Natalie Ellis | Ms Rebecca Phillips & Dr Suman Gupta |
| 9:15am – 9:35am | Deb Magee PhD Candidate Building and sustaining a positive organisational culture in aged care in rural and regional Australia: Registered nurses’ perspectives | Alexandra Bastick Honours Student Does radiation impact the growth of an Australian tropical marine microalgae? Informing potential risks from offshore oil and gas infrastructure | Sophea Aing PhD Candidate Designing novel drugs to treat Helicobacter pylori infection |
| 9:35am – 9:55am | Alisha McFarlane PhD Candidate Assessing the baseline for gender equality at ambulance Tasmania | Tewodros Jember PhD Candidate Genotyping Staphylococcus aureus from bovine milk: Insights from PCR-HRM analysis of mastitis suspects | Ash Sabuz PhD Candidate Effects of storage on raw and processed rice composition and rancidity |
| 9:55am – 10:15am | Sarah Stenson PhD Candidate How can education improve nurses’ preconceptions and attitudes around mandatory reporting and child maltreatment? | Krystal Dacey PhD Candidate Navigation behaviour and terrain analysis for spatial modelling human movement in the wilderness | Nayomi Danthanarayana PhD Candidate Zoonotic arboviruses of Papua New Guinea and their vectors: Characterising the mosquito microbiome and evaluating novel surveillance methods |
| 10:15am – 10:35am | Steph Hibburt Honours Student Initiatives that support mental health and wellbeing in rural communities – a case series | Lauren McIlveen Honours Student Sheep producers’ perceptions of oral lice treatments and current lice management strategies in Australia | Sophie Wacher PhD Candidate Understanding the nuclear localisation of cytomegalovirus major immediate early proteins through their interactions with host factors |
| 10:35am – 10:50am | Ferdous Rahman PhD Candidate Investigating hepatitis C virus (HCV) transmission patterns among people who inject drugs (PWID) in Dhaka & Chapai Nawabganj, Bangladesh: A network-based study | Nurun Naila PhD Candidate Rice-Vegetable-Aqua Culture Systems for Bangladesh: Impacts on Yield, Human Nutrition, Food Security, and Household Economies | Amjad Ali PhD Candidate Potential role of nuclear import in Akabane orthobunyavirus replication and infection |
| Time | Stream A | Stream B | Stream C |
|---|---|---|---|
Meeting ID: 65751097927 | Meeting ID: 65398025685 | Meeting ID: 68563908492 | |
Chair | A/Prof Abi Santhakumar | Laura-Anne Dennis | Dr Ben Stodart |
Room Co-ordinator | A/Prof Abi Santhakumar | Dale Nimmo | Dr Ben Stodart |
Assessors | Dr Kristina Griffin & Dr Ketema Zeleke | Dr Randy Adjonu & Dr Edward Anyasodor | A/Prof Marina da Rosa Kaizer & Dr Jennifer Manyweathers |
| 11:05am – 11:25am | Jo Bampoe PhD Candidate Developing the first Ghanaian English speech and language assessment tool | Dilki Adikari Arachchige PhD Candidate Impact of human milk oligosaccharide (HMO) supplementation on learning and memory ability of piglets in 8-armed radial maze | Natasha Lubke Honours Student Dance behaviour in cockatoos; implications for cognitive processes and welfare |
| 11:25am – 11:45am | Kirsten Pini Honours Student Parental and caregiver perspectives of the key worker model use in early childhood approach settings | Sarah Stevens PhD Candidate The pharmacokinetics of Δ9-THCin sheep | Kate Ferguson Honours Student A preliminary study of intraperitoneal fluid administration to neonatal calves |
| 11:45am – 12:05pm | Steph Harman Honours Student “But a cog in the machine”: Perspectives of occupational therapists on health equity challenges across regional, rural and remote Australia | Md Shoriful Islam PhD Candidate Ecology and phenology study of sticky nightshade (Solanum sisymbriifolium Lam) for invasion management in Australia | Gab Goldsworthy Honours Student Evaluation of beekeeper perspectives of current honeybee pests, diseases and their impact in southern and eastern Australia |
| 12:05pm – 12:25pm | Catherine Lockley PhD Candidate Theatrical improvisation in STEM Education: enhancing the sparkle of our educators | Natalie Perez De Villarreal Honours Student Does a low-fidelity canine suspensory ligament model improve veterinary student confidence and preparedness during live ovariohysterectomy surgery? | Kelly Tamang PhD Candidate Institutional analysis of agricultural water governance in Bhutan: An exploration of water sharing and allocation |
| 12:25pm – 12:40pm | Lakshmi Gopinath PhD Candidate Insect-based animal feed: Australian consumer attitudes | Josette Fretton Professional Doctorate Student Investigation of equine corneal surgical techniques utilising an ex vivo large animal cornea model | Mariam Khanam PhD Candidate Biofertiliser-based organic amendments: A new approach to saline stress management in faba bean |
| Time | Stream A | Stream B | Stream C |
|---|---|---|---|
Meeting ID: 65751097927 | Meeting ID: 65398025685 | Meeting ID: 68563908492 | |
Chair | Dr David Leaver | Sophie Shephard | Prof Julian Grant |
Room Co-ordinator | Dr Ian Skinner | A/Prof Abi Santhakumar | Prof Julian Grant |
Assessors | Ms Karen Hayes & Dr Ian Skinner | Dr Sharon Laver & Prof Marta Hernandez-Jover | Dr Vivian Isaac & Dr Nirodha Weeraratne |
| 9:00am – 9:20am | Olivia Brunton PhD Candidate Does dual banding of phosphorus fertiliser promote better root growth at depth? | Rahmatuzzaman Rana PhD Candidate Effect of growing legumes one or two seasons prior to wheat on protein composition. | Andrew Lean Masters Candidate Effects of age at first calving on milk production, health and reproduction in primiparous Holsteins on Australian commercial farms |
| 9:20am – 9:40am | Murray Parker PhD Candidate Changing and emergent cultural landscapes and heritage potential of European Christmas markets | Joshua Slattery Honours Student Development of a diagnostic pipeline to detect Trichomonas tenax using CRISPR-Cas12a | Marcos Andres Sodupe PhD Candidate Elucidating the role of Cryptovalsa ampelina in Australian vineyards |
| 9:40am – 10:00am | Keira Brown PhD Candidate Parasites from Australian invasive species and their prevalence in native marsupial species | Nadeeka Narasinghe Arachchige PhD Candidate Characterisation of nuclear localization mechanisms of Herpesvirus Basic Leucine Zipper (bZIP) proteins | Darby Taguiam PhD Candidate Identification and pathogenicity of persimmon dieback pathogens in Australia |
| 10:00am – 10:20am | Calvin Lam PhD Candidate Grapevine root distribution and implication for water and nitrogen uptake in cover cropped vineyards | Clare Sutton PhD Candidate Can volunteering enhance mental resilience in student paramedics? | Colin Starkey PhD Candidate Assessing pruning method to prevent infection of grapevines by trunk disease pathogens |
| 10:20am – 10:35am | Natalie Jefferson Honours Student Is raw meat and seafood a source of gastrointestinal disease in Australian cats? A meta-analysis, survey of cat owners and microscopic examinations of cat faeces | Milad Kazemi PhD Candidate Valorisation of canola oil refining waste-streams - potential for recovery of bioactive compounds | Georgia Kennedy PhD Candidate Circulating miRNA as a novel biomarker for the early detection of M. paratuberculosis infection in dairy cattle |
| Time | Stream A | Stream B | Stream C |
|---|---|---|---|
Meeting ID: 65751097927 | Meeting ID: 65398025685 | Meeting ID: 68563908492 | |
Chair | A/Prof Melissa Nott | Sophie Wacher | Deb Magee |
Room Co-ordinator | A/Prof Melissa Nott | Dr Ketema Zeleke | Dr Vivian Isaac |
Assessors | Dr Ben Stodart & A/Prof Sam Pant | Dr Boris Budiono & A/Prof Abi Santhakumar | Dr Catherine Pohlman & Dr Amina Price |
| 10:45am – 11:05am | Thomas Dicks PhD Candidate Missing replicate imputation for metabolomics experiments | Mahmudul Amin PhD Candidate Effect of dietary human milk oligosaccharides intervention on brain neurotransmitters and metabolites in piglets: an in vivo MRS study | Haley Findlay Masters Candidate The impact of paramedic communication in shaping women’s birth experiences |
| 11:05am – 11:25am | Emily Healy Honours Student A retrospective study investigating the incidence, frequency, severity and cumulative duration of hypotension in dogs admitted to a referral hospital for CT imaging | Belal Hossain PhD Candidate Projection of climate change and extreme climatic events during cropping seasons in northwest Bangladesh | Erin Isaacs Honours Student Addressing knowledge gaps in out-of-hospital cardiovascular care for female patients |
11:25am – 11:45am | Tanjina Amin PhD Candidate Molecular determinants of human milk oligosaccharides as a bioactive compound for eye and vision development and cognitive behaviour in piglets | Tahura Khanam Munmun PhD Candidate Biosecurity in backyard poultry in Australia: impact on the emergence of zoonosis and antimicrobial resistance | Soph Shephard PhD Candidate A systematic review of interventions for the treatment of chronic pain in adults residing in regional, rural and remote Australia |
| 11:45am – 12:00am | Siobhan Ogle-Lang Honours Student Risk factors associated with the occurrence of Canine Gastric Dilatation and Volvulus in Australia: a retrospective descriptive analysis | Alexander Tynan PhD Candidate A novel multi-domain Schistosoma mansoni vaccine | Sade Franklin Masters Candidate - withdrawn Promoting pro-climate behaviour in healthcare for value-based outcomes |
| Time | Stream A | Stream B | Stream C |
|---|---|---|---|
Meeting ID: 65751097927 | Meeting ID: 65398025685 | Meeting ID: 68563908492 | |
Chair | Dr David Leaver | Jaishree Ravindran | Dale Nimmo |
Room Co-ordinator | Dr David Leaver | Dr Ian Skinner | Dale Nimmo |
Assessors | A/Prof Cannas Kwok & Dr Brian Sengstock | Dr Doaa Hanafy & Dr Paul Prenzler | Dr Brian McSharry & Dr Nisa Perera |
| 12:45pm – 1:05pm | Ruth Pape PhD Candidate Construction of the female thorax (ribcage) sizes and female body habitus using computed tomography (CT) images | Tridip Das PhD Candidate A Design of Experiment (DoE) approach to develop an immunogenic thermostable novel spray-dried vaccine against Psittacine Beak and Feather Disease | Gideon Stemmet Professional Doctorate Student Can self-tensioning suture material (Dynacord™), minimize postoperative loss of abduction in equine prosthetic laryngoplasty? |
| 1:05pm – 1:25pm | Uptal Mondal PhD Candidate Assessing the burden and major risk factors of metabolic syndrome among adults in rural Australia | Aliati Iswantari PhD Candidate
Conserving stocky galaxias: Opportunities and challenges in husbandry and translocation | Pradeep Rai PhD Candidate Quantifying Farmer's Economic, Social, and Environmental Preferences and Choices |
| 1:25pm – 1:40pm | Sarah Amr Masters Candidate Assessing the risk of noise-induced hearing loss among dentists | Laura-Anne Dennis Professional Doctorate Student The effect of nicotinic acid supplementation on NAD+ metabolite concentrations in follicular fluid and serum of aged mares: Can we reverse the age associated decline in oocyte quality? | Shaunna McTernan Professional Doctorate Student Prevalence and risk factors for salmonella shedding in horses presenting with gastrointestinal disease in Australia: A retrospective multicentre study |