This year, our Centre held its first virtual Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition.
Founded by The University of Queensland, the 3MT is an academic competition that celebrates and challenges PhD students to describe their research within three minutes to a general audience. 3MT celebrates the discoveries made by research students and encourages their skill in communicating the importance of research to the broader community.
Our judging panel included Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dr Steffen Bollmann, Senior Nuclear Medicine Scientist, Sarah Daniel and special guest, Delivery and Portfolio Manager from The Solution Collective, Natasha Reynolds.
Our Judging Panel
From left: Chair, Natasha Reynolds, Dr Steffen Bollmann
and Sarah Daniel
Our 2020 entrants were:
Vanessa Schendel: Fun with 100 30-382 legs
Jake Hattwell: Understanding Fumigation Resistance using Virtual Worms
Merryn Strange: Plastic Nanoparticles: Removing the blindfold from cancer therapeutics
Atena Akbari: The layered-cake; the layered neocortex
Salma Ahmed: The superpowers of degradable polymeric nanoparticles
Arunpandian Balaji: Biodegradable nanobullets to a silent Killer
Shahrokh Abbasi-Rad: Another step towards safety
Streamed via Zoom, our students presented a variety of research topics highlighting our diversity in research.
This year, our winner was Jake Hattwell from the Schirra Group presenting Understanding Fumigation Resistance using Virtual Worms. Runner-up was Salma Ahmed of the Thurecht Group whose talk was recognised for its creative comparisons to the Disney movie, Frozen. The People's Choice Award was awarded to Vanessa Schendel for her interesting talk on centipede toxins.
Jake and Salma progressed to the 3MT All-Institute Final competing with other finalists from UQ Institutes: AIBN, IMB, QAAFI, SMI and QBI. You can watch our 3MT entrants videos here.
Our Centre congratulates our finalists and higher degree research student community.
Media: Maria Moran, maria.moran@cai.uq.edu.au, +61 7 3365 1785
