Recap: APG 2025 Annual Research Symposium

24 Jul 2025

The APG committee would like to thank the attendees, speakers, judges and sponsors who supported our inaugural Annual Research Symposium last week.

Congratulations to our winners

Thank you to everyone who showcased their exceptional research at our Annual Research Symposium! We would like to congratulate the six winners of our sponsored prizes, whose work highlighted the strength and potential of our research community.

We would like to extend our gratitude to all those who volunteered time to mark abstracts, talks and posters. We would also like to thank Flinders University for hosting us at their City Campus. This support is crucial to the success of the APG Research Symposium.

🗨️ Winning talks
🏆 SAGC best student talk: Dayna Holroyd
🏆 Promega best ECR talk: Ashleigh Geiger
🏆 Decode Science People’s Choice Award: Rebekah Munro

📊 Winning poster presentations
🏆 Cytiva Poster Prize: Jesse Kennedy
🏆 BMG Labtech poster prize: Emma Mao
🏆 NEB Poster prize: Sarah Eisemann

Invited speakers

We would like to sincerely thank our wonderful guest speakers for sharing their research with us.

Dr Michael Roy
SAiGENCI – South Australian immunoGENomics Cancer Institute, University of Adelaide

Discovery at the interface – harnessing Induced Proximity and Protein Degradation to expand druggable space

Dr. Danielle Rudler
Harry Perkins Institute for Medical Research, The University of Western Australia

Fidelity of translation initiation is required for coordinated respiratory complex assembly

Prof. Renae Ryan
School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Australia

The twisted link between a dual function glutamate transporter and Episodic Ataxia

Thank you to our sponsors

A sincere thank you to all of our generous gold and silver sponsors for supporting emerging scientists and making this event possible! It was great to have the in-person presence of SAGC, Cytiva, NEB and Decode Science.

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