Early Career Research Excellence Award Winners

To celebrate the breadth of emerging talent across the EDAR community, awards were presented to early career researchers in recognition of their outstanding talents.

ECR poster submissions were assessed holistically across five key areas:

• Research Excellence – Quality, rigour and significance of the research
• Innovation – Originality, creativity and novel approaches that advance research or address complex challenges
• Impact – Scientific, environmental, societal, policy or economic benefit
• Communication – Ability to communicate research effectively to scientific, industry, government and community audiences

ECR poster presenters gave a brief pitch (up to three minutes) about their research and responded to questions from the judges during the poster sessions held during EDAR. In addition to the award criteria, judges also considered the presenter's contributions relative to their career stage.

Best Poster

Aleksandra Stanczak, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Detection of blaCTX-M genes in Escherichia coli in dairy calves in Australia

Runner Up

Juan Inda, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

How Antibiotic Resistance Gene Detection Tools Shape Our View of the Resistome

Third Place

Sophia Axillus, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

Predicting the transmission of antibiotic resistance genes among bacteria and environments

Highly Commended

Annie Justh De Neczpal, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Shaelyn Xu, University of Calgary, Canada

David Nowottnick, TU Dresden, Germany

Anna Abramova, Chalmers University Of Technology, Sweden

Marcus Wenne, Chalmers University Of Technology, Sweden

Marija Dmitrijeva, Swiss Institute Of Bioinformatics, Switzerland

Awarded to a SAAFE CRC PhD Scholar

Ophelia Phraphone

Antimicrobial resistant E. coli in wastewater: A genomic analysis across a treatment train