Emerging Leadership Awards:

AVS12 Rising Star (AVS)

• Natalee Newton

The Young Award

• Lara Herrero

Industry Engagement Award

• Caolingzhi Tang

Research Presentations

Science Bites People’s Choice Award

• Jacinta Agius

• Ellesandra Noye

Poster Presentation Awards

• Ryan Johnston

• Adam Lopez-Denman

• Henry Munyanduki

• Connor Scott

ECR Oral Presentation Awards

• Mary Petrone

• Angela Harrison

• Christopher McMillan

• Bethany Horsburgh

• Ariel Isaacs

World Society for Virology (WSV) Award

• Anjali Gowripalan

Travel Awards

Indigenous Delegate Travel Grant

• Natalie Netzler

Scientists from Underrepresented State/Regions Travel Award

• Babu Nath

• Natalie Watson

• Anjali Growripalan

• Wesley Freppel

Australian Centre for Hepatitis Virology (ACHV) Travel Grant

• Harout Ajoyan

• Laura McCoullough

Emerging Leadership Awards:

AVS11 Rising Star (AVS)

• Ebony Monson (La Trobe)

Research Presentations:
Best Overall Oral

• Ruby Farrukee (Uni Melbourne)

 Sanofi Travel Award

• Zahra Telikani

 Phage Australia Travel Award

• Ruby Farrukee

 The Peter Doherty Institute Travel Award

• Ryan Johnston

• Danyelle Assis Ferreira

• Emma Harding

Question Awards
Session 9a: Antivirals and Vaccines II

• Brooke Trowbridge (Uni of Adelaide)

Session 9b: Viral Immunology

• Jason Herbert (WESTMEAD)

 Session 10a: Viral Host Interactions II

• Hudson Smith (Monash)

Session 10b: Innate Immunology II

• Gael Martin (Griffith University)

 Science Bites:

Session One

• Leo Lee (Uni Melbourne)

Session Two

• Mikaela Bell (UQ)

Poster Session:
Session One

• Erin Harvey (Uni Sydney)

• Leo Lee (Uni Melbourne)

• Ariel Isaacs (UQ)

Session Two

• Henry De Malmanche (UQ)

• Wen Shi Lee (Uni Melbourne)

• Svenja Fritzlar (Uni Melbourne)

Session 1: Animal and Wildlife Viruses

• Emma Harding (UNSW)

Session 2: Innate Immunity

• Ruby Farrukee (Uni Melbourne)

Session 3: Antivirals and Vaccines

• No eligible speakers

Session 4: Virus Structures, Receptors, Assembly and Replication

• Morgan Freney (UQ)

Session 5: Viral epidemiology and Diagnostics

• Jessica Harrison (UQ)

Session 6: Systems Virology and Viromes

• Zahara Telikani (La Trobe)

Session 7: Virus Host Interactions

• Daniel Rawle (QIMR)

Session 8: Viral Immunology

• Wuji Zhang (Uni of Melbourne)

Session 9 (a): Antiviral and Vaccines II

• Julio Carrera-Montoya (Uni of Melbourne)

Session 9 (b): Viral Immunology II

• Isabelle Foo (Uni of Melbourne)

Session 10 (a): Viral host interactions II

• Robson Kriiger Loterio (Monash University)

Session 10 (b): Innate Immunology II

• Shivam Purohit (Uni of Sydney)

Session 11: Unusual Viruses, Phages and Plant Viruses

• Agathe Colmant (Aix-Marseille University)

Session 12: Focus on virology in First Nation communities

• Ashley Hirons (Uni of Melbourne)

Session 13: Clinical Virology

• Stephanie Lynch (Westmead)

Best presentation by PhD Student

• Ebony Monson

Best Presentation by a PostDoc Researcher

• Daniel Rawle

Emerging Leadership Awards:
AVS10 Rising Star (AVS)

• Agathe Colmant (The attenuation of flavivirus Bamaga virus in vertebrates is temperature-dependent and linked to viral protease cleavage efficiency)

AV210 Student Award (AVS)

• Ebony Monson (Early intracellular Lipid Droplet Accumulation Following Viral Infection Is Required for an Efficient Anti-Viral Response)

Research Presentations
Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute Poster Prize

• Joshua Deerain (Programmed Cell Death During Norovirus Infection)

• Paulina Koszalka (Use of a hollow fibre infection model to study the selection of resistance to the new influenza antiviral drug baloxavir)

Microorganisims Best Oral Presentation Award (MDPI)

• Natalee Newton (The first cryo-EM structure of an insect-specific flavivirus reveals an infectious immature virion and new mechanism for igM-based flavivirus immunity)

Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity Award for Indigenous Health Research

• Ashley Hirons (Novel hbz mRNA of HTLV-1c results in loss of activation domain)

Top Early Career Cellular Microbiologist Award (John Wiley & Sons)

• Anjali Gowripalan (Subverting the dogma of CRISPR/Cas9 to powerfully select recombinant poxviruses)

Maurice Wilkins Centre Student Presentation Award

• Svenja Fritzlar (Genome-wide molecular screen reveals novel HCMV genes essential for viral egress)

AIDRC Student Presentation Award (Australian Infection Diseases Research Centre)

• Byron Shue (Screening for a “CRISPR" perspective of RACK1 as a critical pan-flavivirus host factor for virus infection)

Institute for Glycomics Student Prize Griffith University – Institute for Glycomics

• Alice Russo (Viral prevalence and diversity among cane toads (Rhinella marina) in their native and introduced ranges: can viruses impact invasion success?)

Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne Presentation Award

• Alex Underwood (Defining correlates of antibody-mediated protection against HCV reinfection)

La Trobe Centre for Livestock Interactions with Pathogens Travel Award

• Gervais Habarugira (Pathogenesis of WNVKUN infection in experimentally infected Crocodylus porosus)

Australian Society for Microbiology Award

• Natalia Salazar-Quiroz (Structural and clade differences in HIV-1 Env trimer vaccines affect antibody functionality)

School of Chemistry & Molecular Biosciences, University of Queensland, Best Poster Video Awards

• Wilson Nguyen (Establishing, characterising and utilising new adult mouse models of arthritogenic alphaviruses for pre-clinical evaluations of new interventions.)

• David Delgago Diaz (Distinct immune responses elicited from cervicovaginal epithelial cells by lactic acid and scfas associated with optimal and non-optimal vaginal microbiota)

• Hafsa Rana (Developing methods to investigate viral entry into human foreskin)

Travel Awards:
Microorganisms Travel award (MDPI)

• Anjali Gowripalan (Subverting the dogma of CRISPR/Cas9 to powerfully select recombinant poxviruses)

Viruses Travel Award (MDPI)

• Joshua Hayward (Infectious KoRV-related retroviruses circulating in Australian bats)

Thermo Fisher Scientific Travel Awards

• Alice Michie (Genome-scale phylogeny and evolutionary analysis of Ross River virus)

• Alice Russo (Viral prevalence and diversity among cane toads (Rhinella marina) in their native and introduced ranges: can viruses impact invasion success?)

AVS9 Student Travel Scholarships ($600)

• Agathe Colmant

• Keaton Crosse

• Emily Machala

• Thisun Piyasa

• Daniel Enosi Tuiuplotu Postdoc

• Joshua Hayward

Griffith Institute of Glycomics Student Oral Poster, $500

• Keaton Crosse (The host antiviral protein viperin positively augments the innate immune response against DNA viruses.)

Griffith Institute of Glycomics Student Poster, $500

• Orion Tong (Plasmacytoid dendritic cells: responses to HIV during initial infection.)

Griffiths Institute of Glycomics Student Poster, $500.

• Svenja Fritzlar (MNV manipulates the surface expression of MHC class I proteins.)

American, ASM Student Poster Prize, $300 (voucher for ASM books).

• Chelsea Gerada (Varicella zoster virus ORF63 inhibits apoptosis in both human neuronal and keratinocyte cell lines and changes its localisation upon apoptosis induction.)

ASM Poster award (non-student), $400 (including ASM membership, 2018)

• Andril Slonchak (2 posters) - (Discovery, characterisation and functional analysis of novel WNV-derived small non-coding RNAs; Role of non-coding RNAs in the 3’UTR of ZIKV)

• And 1 oral: (Systems biology and small RNAs in exosomes from WNV-infected cells (overall theme of small RNA’s and Flaviviruses))

ASM Oral award (non-student), $400 (including ASM membership, 2018).

• Rebecca Ambrose (Characterisation of a novel inhibitor of the IRF3-independent antivral immune response.)

ViiV Healthcare Student Award

• $1000 - Heeva Baharlou

• $500 - Daniel Rawle (Poster)

ViiV Healthcare Postdoc Award

• $500 - George Mbogo
  

AVS Student Award – (cosponsored by ASM) $1000

• Agathe Colmant

AVS Rising Star Award (co-sponsored by ASM) $1000

• Kirsty Short