UCL Poster Competition/Exhibition 2002

In March 2002, The UCL Graduate School ran a Research poster competition/exhibition which 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.

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

This year, the competition took place over three days (rather than two) because there was an ADDITIONAL COMPETITION. As a result of collaboration with the graduate communities at the University of Cambridge, Imperial College London, and the University of Oxford, there was be a Joint Inter-University Poster Competition for graduates, on the day after our competition.(Due to the nature of the institutions involved in the collaboration, this was limited to Life and Clinical Sciences).

30 "Best Entries" (including the winners) were selected from the competitions in Life Sciences and Clinical Sciences the previous day and were forwarded on to compete with 30 entries from each of the 3 other institutions. 4 judges from each institution will chose the winners and we hope that this was be an excellent way for students within UCL to meet colleagues at Oxbridge and Imperial.

Click here to browse by department or Click here to browse all entries

Arts & Humanities, Laws, Social & Historical Sciences

Overall Winner (£400)

• David Conway - Hebrew & Jewish Studies
  Jewry in Music

Runner-up (£100)

• Faculty of Laws Research students
  Black Letter Law

Built Environment, Engineering and MAPS

Overall Winner (£400)

• Adrian Smith - Geological Sciences
  Mechanisms and Products of the Breakdown of Contaminant Element-Bearing Jarosite

Runner-up (£100)

• Jay Abbot - Physics & Astronomy
  Quantitive Studies of Wolf-Rayet Stars in Nearby Galaxies
• Constantinos Chappas - Statistical Science
  Portfolio Optimization: To Shrink or Not to Shrink ?
• Samantha Thompson - Physics & Astronomy
  OSCA - An Optimised Stellar Coronagraph for Adaptive Optics
• Roger Wesson - Physics & Astronomy
  Physical Conditions and Abundances in Planetary Nebulae

Clinical, Dental and Medical Institutes

Overall Winner (£400)

• Helen Rudge - Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research
  How does a virus pick up its coat and leave? The role of alkaline nuclease.

Runner-up (£100)

• Sarah Drayton - Cancer Research UK
  How to make a normal human cell cancerous in four steps: so can we make a cancerous cell normal?
  
  
• Catherine Hall - Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research
  Inactivation of nitric oxide in the brain
  
  
• David Howell - Medicine
  From Clot to Collagen
  
  
• Ana Mora - Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research
  Oligodendrocyte development in Zebrafish
  
  
• Morwenna Porter - Paediatrics & Child Health
  C. elegans as a model for juvenile NCL
  
  

Life Sciences

Overall Winner (£400)

• Aysha Raza - Anatomy & Developmental Biology
  Oligodendrocytes and their ng2+ precursors in HD
  
  

Runner-up (£100)

• Liam Drew - Biology
  How do you feel? The Neurobiology of Touch
  
  
• Alexandra Secker - Pharmacology
  Role of supraspinal 5-HT1A receptors in the control of micturition in female rats
  
  

The winners, runners ups and twenty one other best entries from the Clinical, Dental, Medical Institutes and Life sciences were forwarded on to compete in the Joint Inter-University Poster Competition the following day. Click here to see how they did.