UCL Poster Competition Results!

Inter-University Poster Competition results, Click here

In March 2003, The UCL Graduate School ran a Research Poster Competition 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.

The exhibition attracted interest among academics and other graduate students.

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

ALL winners and runners-up (those who were present) plus entrants put forward for the Inter-University Competition

The Graduate School would like to thank the following who acted as judges:

Arts and Humanities, Social and Historical Sciences, Laws Professor Tim Mathews, Vice-Head of the Graduate School Professor Helen Weston	Clinical Sciences Professor Mary Collins Professor Vince Emery Professor Geoff Laurent Professor Christine Kinnon Professor Stephan Strobel, Vice-Head of the Graduate School
Engineering, MAPS, Built Environment Professor Polina Bayvel Professor Ian Dowman Professor Alan Lord, Vice-Head of the Graduate School Professor Philip Steadman	Life Sciences Professor Peter Mobbs Professor David Saggerson Professor Bill Richardson

Arts & Humanities, Laws, Social & Historical Sciences Joint Overall Winners (£250 Each) Anna Apostolidou - Anthropology "Coming out. Greece as a big closet: An ethnography of homophobia" (left) Philippa Patrick - Institute of Archaeology "Creaking in the Cloisters: observations on prevalence and distribution of osteoarthritis in monks from medieval London" (Not pictured)

Built Environment, Engineering and MAPS Overall Winner (£400) Karin Shmueli - Medical Physics & Bioengineering "High Field MRI - The Phantom Menace" (far left) Runner-up (£100) Giovanna Bruni - Chemical Engineering "The Snakes and Ladders of my PhD" Eleanor Stride - Mechanical Engineering "Designer Bubbles: Engineering Ultrasound Contrast Agents" Lena Tailor - Earth Sciences "Tectonic Evolution of the Ionian Zone, Western Greece" Sania Zaki - Bartlett School of Graduate Studies "Higher crime rates in more integrated areas?"

Clinical Sciences Overall Winner (£400) Laura von Hertzen - Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research "Unravelling the Secrets of Memory: A Transcriptional Study" (Second from the left) Runner-up (£100) Nigel Field - Immunology & Molecular Pathology "vFLIP Persistently Activates IKK in KSHV Infected Cells" Catherine Hall - Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research "Kinetics of Nitric Oxide Inactivation in the Brain" Philip Hill - Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research "Study of acquired resistance to Atovaquone in Pneumocystis carinii, using Yeast as a model system" Anna Need - Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research "The Effect of Environmental Enrichment on Kvb1.1 and aCamKII Memory Mutant Mice"

Life Sciences Overall Winner (£400) Rasha El Kassas - Biology "Biological control of Orobanche crenata" (Second from the right) Runner-up (£100) Gabriela Aguileta - Biology "Molecular Evolution of the Beta-Globin Gene Family" Pritpal Chandan - Biochemistry & Molecular Biology "Chromosome engineering in the mouse" James Collins - Psychology "Is synaesthesia associated with any cognitive impairments?" Elizabeth Milne - Human Communication Science "Motion detection, motor control, foetal testosterone and autism - is there a link?"

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

For the second year, we also ran an additional Inter-University competition set up as a result of collaboration between the graduate communities at the University of Cambridge, Imperial College London, and the University of Oxford. (Due to the nature of the institutions involved in the collaboration, this was limited to Clinical and Life Sciences).

30 "Best Entries" (including the winners) were selected from the UCL's competitions in Clinical and Life Sciences and went forward to compete with entries from each of the 3 other institutions. 4 judges (2 academics, 2 students) from each institution chose the winners and we hope that this proved an excellent way for students within UCL to meet colleagues at Oxbridge and Imperial. Click here to see how they did.