NEWS, AWARDS & GRANTS

PhD Student Olivia Ducommun-Dit-Verron was invited to speak at the VAA Recreational Beekeeping conference to present her work in combatting bacterial diseases in honey bees.

PhD Student Luke McKay has been nominated for the IKON Services Australia Environmental Sustainability Award and the Victorian Government Group Achievement in the Community Award.

PhD Student Gopika Bhasi presented her work on the use of honey as a non-invasive method for monitoring bee pathogens across Australia at the 2nd Australian & New Zealand Environmental DNA (eDNA) Conference.

PhD student Danielle Ackerly had the privilege of attending the

#ADSTAR24 Summit in Canberra as part of the Early Career Researcher (ECR) delegation for The Defence Science Institute (DSI). 

Congratulations to former PhD students Alex Knox and Meysam Khodaparast on the conferral of their doctorates and graduation. A fantastic achievement and milestone!

PhD student Olivia Ducommun-Dit-Verron's work has been funded by AgriFutures Australia to develop a single-shot vaccine against American and European Foulbrood in Honey Bees.

PhD Student Luke McKay has been awarded Defence Science Institute’s Research Higher Degree (RHD) Student Grant to continue his work on Harnessing Antimicrobial Power from Recycled Botanical Waste.

PhD student Danielle Ackerly had the privilege of attending the 11th International Abalone Symposium in Auckland, New Zealand.

Listen to interview of Travis Beddoe discussing the work of Agriculture BioSolutions laboratory Interview
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Read about the exciting study performed by Meysam Khodaparast which has been highlighted in Australian Water Association reports
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PhD Student Dani Ackerly has been awarded Defence Science Institute’s Research Higher Degree (RHD) Student Grant to continue her work on the use of paraprobiotics 

Congratulations to former PhD student Jaclyn Swan who her PhD work has been awarded the  Nancy Millis Medal. The medal is awarded to the authors of outstanding doctoral theses

PhD Student Alex Knox has been awarded the Defence Science Institute’s Research Higher Degree (RHD) Student Grant to continue her work on LAMP assay development for detection of Ross River Virus

PhD student Lily Tran has been awarded the Tim Healy Scholarship from AW Howard Memorial Trust to continue her work on molecular detection of agriculturally important patrasites and their vectors 

The lab is now on Twitter, follow us on #beddoelab

PhD student Gemma Zerna has been awarded a scholarshiop from Meat & Livestock Australia to continue her work on vaccine development against liver fluke

Travis Beddoe interviewed by Latrobe University industry department to discuss the Research & Innovation Precinct
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Gopika Bhaski will be joining the lab on the prestigious Shah Ruhk Khan Latrobe PhD Scholarship
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Jaclyn Swan wins the L'Oreal-UNESCO for women in science mentoring award

Farm-based diagnostic tool funded
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