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Group News • Awards • Achievements

Doulin Sheperd, Somavally Dalvi and Bindusmita Paul all completed their final PhD orations, a major milestone in their PhD journey. All gave terrific talks that were very well received by the audience!

Ananya Padmakumar was the runner-up for the 3MT-thesis program conducted by the Melbourne Dental school.

Bindusmita Paul, a PhD student, received the Best Talk award at the Gordon Research Seminar (GRC-2025).

Bindusmita Paul received the Millis Jackson Research Grant.

Somavally Dalvi received the Iain Charles Medgett Postgraduate Award.

Somavally Dalvi received the Best Student Talk award at the Phage Bites Conference.

Doulin Shepherd, a PhD student, received the Best Talk award at the International Conference on Type IV Secretion System.

Somavally Dalvi received one of the Best Talk awards at the Mobile Genetic Elements meeting (MGE-Aus 2025).

Shubha Udupa won the Best Poster award at the World Tomography Congress.

Luca Troman received the Poster Prize at the ARC CceMMP Research Symposium.

Ananya Padmakumar received the Best Poster award at BacPath 2024 Conference.

Bindusmita Paul received a Poster Prize at the Lorne Protein Conference.

Ananya Padmakumar won a Student Travel Grant from the University of Melbourne.

Milad Reyhani received a Poster Prize at the Lorne Protein Conference.

Matt Johnson received the EMCRA Domestic Travel Award.

Manasi Arcot Anil Kumar received the MDHS EMCR Catalyst Grant Award.

Doulin Shepherd received the Best Talk award at the DBP Graduate Research Conference.

Bindusmita Paul received the Best Talk award at the CryoZ Symposium-2023.

Ananya Padmakumar was awarded the Rowden Scholarship 2023.

Doulin Shepherd received the Best Talk award at the DBP Graduate Research Conference.

Doulin Shepherd received a Poster Prize at the Lorne Protein Conference.

Bindusmita Paul received an ADRF Grant.