ASSSI SA Branch Event – Jane Gillooly Award/Lecture

Australian Society of Soil Science, SA Branch – Jane Gillooly Memorial Award Presentation & Lecture

Please join us at next ASSSI event for the announcement of the recipients of the 2011 Jane Gillooly Memorial Award.

This will be followed by a presentation from last year’s recipient Callie Nickolai from the SA Murray-Darling Basin NRM Board on:

“Building an understanding of the Murray-Darling Basin – a wetland perspective”

The event will take place at 4 pm on Thursday the 7th of July in the Charles Hawker Conference Centre, Waite Campus.

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Awards for Plant Pathologists

A number of staff members and students from the School recently attended the concurrent 4th Asian Conference on Plant Pathology and 18th Biennial Australasian Plant Pathology Society Conference in Darwin.

Ismail Ismail, a PhD student in Amanda Able’s laboratory should be congratulated for winning the student poster prize ($200) for his poster entitled ‘Are aggressiveness and proteinaceous toxin production related in Pyrenophora teres f. teres?’.

Professor Eileen Scott was also given the prestigious honour of being named a Fellow of the Australasian Plant Pathology Society as was Waite Research Institute Board member Professor Alison Stewart.

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