Student poster prize won at National Conference

Life and Environmental Sciences PhD student Sharl Mintoff won the prize for best poster by a young scientist under 35 at the recent biennial conference of the Australasian Plant Pathology Society held in Newcastle.

Sharl is in the first year of his PhD program.

His prizes included a framed certificate from CSIRO publishing, a book voucher valued at $150 and a 12 month subscription to the CSIRO journal Functional Plant Biology.

The winning poster was called “Priming for resistance against pathogens: cellular responses of Arabidopsis to UV-C radiation.” and

It outlined research that is investigating components of the signalling pathways that are induced in the model plant Arabidopsis in response to ultraviolet light.

Sharl Mintoff and his co-investigators are using detailed microscopy, biochemical assays and microarray analysis of gene expression to investigate the impact of ultraviolet light on the response of plants to disease-causing organisms.

Click here to download a pdf of Sharl’s Mintoff's poster “Priming for resistance against pathogens: cellular responses of Arabidopsis to UV-C radiation” (1.27MB)

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