Heatley-Payne and Hayes-Burnet Award Recipients Announced

18 February 2013

The Heatley-Payne and Hayes-Burnet Awards are offered jointly with the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) and Australian Society for Microbiology. The awards provide funds to support the reciprocal exchange of one early-career Society member to present their research at the other Society’s main annual conference and to visit an institution in that country, enabling the recipient to raise their profile among the microbiology community and to initiate and strengthen collaborations.

 

The recipient of the 2013 SGM Heatley-Payne Award is Dr Siobhan Watkins (right) of University of Portsmouth, who will attend the ASM General Meeting in Denver and visit the University of Maryland to further her research on freshwater cyanophages from the south of England.

 

 

Dr Barry Johnson (left) of National Institutes of Health is to receive the reciprocal American Society for Microbiology award. Barry will visit Peter Cherepanov of Cancer Research UK London Research Institute and present his work on modelling and inhibition of HIV-1 integrase at the SGM Spring 2013 Conference.

 

 

The SGM Hayes-Burnet Award for 2013 has been awarded to Dr Rebecca Sumner (right) of University of Cambridge. Rebecca will visit Associate Professor David Tscharke at the Australian National University and then attend the Annual Scientific Meeting in Adelaide. At the University, she will deliver a seminar on her research and receive training in analysing adaptive and memory immune responses of vaccinia virus in a murine model.

 

 

The Australian recipient is Dr Johanna Kenyon (left), University of Sydney. Johanna will join us at the SGM Autumn 2013 Conference and visit Professor Gordon Dougan of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute as part of an ongoing collaboration on the capsule locus in Acinetobacter baumannii genomes.