Best communicator award goes to bioengineering student

Tim Angeli has won the Institute's best communicator award, which is presented annually to the most outstanding presenter at the Student Colloquium held in Palmerston North. Mr Angeli is enrolled for a PhD at the Bioengineering Institute at the University of Auckland where he is studying novel pacesetting mechanisms of small intestine slow wave activity. This work will contribute to a more thorough understanding of the entire process of digestion.

Runner up for the award was Nadja Berger, who is based at AgResearch. Her presentation was on the effect of dietary salmon on colon inflammation in a mouse model of inflammatory bowel diseases.

Student choice was Amit Taneja from Riddet Institute headquarters, who spoke on the effects of spray drying on the redispersion behaviour of milk protein-stabilised emulsion powders.

The colloquium was attended by 43 PhD students out of the Institute's complement of 52.