Inter-University Poster Competition/Exhibition

As a result of collaboration with the graduate communities at the University of Cambridge, Imperial College London, and the University of Oxford with University College London, UCL ran a Joint Inter-University Poster Competition for graduates, on the day after UCLs' usual competition.(Due to the nature of the institutions involved in the collaboration, this was limited to Life and Clinical Sciences).

This offered graduate students an opportunity to meet, advertise and discuss the innovative research they are undertaking, thereby providing them with an opportunity to raise the profile of their research.

Winners!!

The exhibition attracted interest among academics and other graduate students at all four institutions.

Posters were displayed in the North & South Cloisters at UCL.

30 "Best Entries" (including the winners) were selected from UCLs competitions in Life Sciences and Clinical Sciences the previous day and went forward to compete with 30 entries from each of the 3 other institutions. 4 judges from each institution chose the winners and we hope that this proved an excellent way for students from all four institutions to meet each other.

Overall Winner (£500)

• Rachel Batterham - Imperial College
  PYY3-36, a gut hormone, physiologically inhibits food intake in rodents and man.

Runners-up (£100)

• Richard Bomphrey - Oxford University
  Visualising the flow around insect wings.
  
  
• Catherine Hall - University College London
  Inactivation of nitric oxide in the brain
  
  
• Ana Mora - University College London
  Oligodendrocyte development in Zebrafish
  
  
• Zoe Norgate - Cambridge University
  The Immune response to Pregnancy
  
  
• Nathan Robertson - Imperial College
  Molecular Characterisation of Immunoregulatory Cells
  
  
• Helen Rudge - University College London
  How does a virus pick up its coat and leave? The role of alkaline nuclease.