ASBS Student Support & Awards

We support and celebrate our student members by providing travel grants and awards

Student Support & Awards

In addition to research grants, student members can apply for funding for travel. Awards are also presented for the best oral presentation and poster during the annual conference.

Dan Murphy presenting the Pauline Ladiges prize to Kaylene Bransgrove at the 2013 ASBS Conference, Sydney by Mike Bayly CC BY

Pauline Ladiges Prize

The Pauline Ladiges Prize is awarded to the best oral presentation by a student at an ASBS conference. This award is judged and awarded at the conference and no application is required. The prize is sponsored by CSIRO.

Learn more about Pauline Ladiges.

Dan Murphy presenting the student poster prize to Sook Ngoh Phoon at the 2013 ASBS Conference, Sydney by Mike Bayly CC BY

Student Poster Prize

The ASBS Conference Poster Prize is awarded to the best poster presentation by a student at an ASBS conference. This award is judged and awarded at the conference and no application is required. The prize is sponsored by CSIRO.

President Bill Barker presenting the Bob Anderson Memorial Student Award to Joshua Buru at the 2013 Conference, Sydney by Mike Bayly CC BY

Bob Anderson Memorial Student Award

Any student from a developing country who presents a talk or poster at the annual ASBS conference is eligible for the Bob Anderson Memorial Student Award. This award is judged and awarded at the conference and no application is required.

Learn more about Bob Anderson.

Taylor Davies-Colley at the ASBS-NZPCN 2019 Joint Conference at Te Papa, Wellington, New Zealand by Parshant Joshi CC BY

Student travel assistance

Student member assistance is available for most conferences where ASBS is a sponsor. The amount available for student assistance is generally based on the early-bird student registration for the conference. Assistance will only be paid to student members who present either a talk or poster at the conference. Information about this award is provided each year on the conference page.

Previous Award Recipients

Pauline Ladiges Prize past recipients (2008-present)

Thomas Mesaglio (University of New South Wales, Australia) Say ‘cheese tree’! Photographs as an essential biodiversity resource: drivers of gaps in the vascular plant photographic record (oral presentation)

ASBS Newsletter 193: 13

Francis J. Nge (University of Adelaide, Australia)  Diversification dynamics in the floras of south-west and south-east Australia

ASBS Newsletter 188: 26

Conference cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic.

Helen Kennedy (University of New England, New South Wales) Revising Melichrus: a deep dive into the past, present and future of the urn heaths.

ASBS Newsletter 181: 1

Jessica Bruce (Edith Cowan University) Reedia spathacea phylogeography and population structure.

ASBS Newsletter 178: 1

Elizabeth Joyce (James Cook University, Cairns) Origins of the northern Australian flora: role of the Sunda-Sahul floristic exchange.

ASBS Newsletter 173: 21

Tim Collins (University of New England) Would you like a new species and a fertile hybrid with that? Eucalyptus magnificata is not just an endangered species.

ASBS Newsletter 168–169: 1

Ben Anderson (University of Western Australia) Using genotyping by sequencing to resolve the evolutionary relationships in a species complex of Australian arid zone grasses (Triodia).

ASBS Newsletter 165: 1

Jessie Prebble (Massey University and Te Papa, New Zealand) The population genetics of rarity in New Zealand plants: a case study delimiting species in recent radiations using Myosotis (Boraginaceae).

ASBS Newsletter 161: 28

Kaylene Bransgrove (Australian Tropical Herbarium, James Cook University, Australia) Mountain-top fungal endophytes of the wet tropics, Queensland: biodiversity, host specificity, biogeography and systematics.

ASBS Newsletter 157: 22  

Lalita Simpson (Australian Tropical Herbarium, James Cook University, Australia) Mind the gap: phylogeography and taxonomy of the Dendrobium speciosum complex (Orchidaceae).

ASBS Newsletter 153: 3

Conference was held as part of the International Botanical Congress and no student prizes were offered.

Caroline Puente-Lelievre (Australian Tropical Herbarium, James Cook University, Australia) Crossing the ditch? Historical biogeography of the trans-Tasman Styphelieae (Styphelioideae, Ericaceae).

ASBS Newsletter 144–5: 18

Mark Wallace (University of Western Australia, Australia) Armidale conference: Using flow cytometry to investigate ploidy distribution: an example from the Lepidosperma costale (Cyperaceae) species complex.

ASBS Newsletter: 141: 26

Trevor Wilson (University of Sydney, Australia) Does traditional classification of Prostanthera dictate how pollination has evolved?

ASBS Newsletter: 137: 5

ASBS Conference Poster Prize past recipients (2009-present)

Patricia Chan (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) Delving into the diversification of Darwinia (Myrtaceae): Phylogenomics, historical biogeography, pollination ecology, and gene flow of the southwestern Australian clade. (lightning talk)

ASBS Newsletter 193: 13

Helen Kennedy (University of New England, New South Wales, Australia) An integrative taxonomic revision of Melichrus – an update. (lightning talk)

Conference was cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic.

Francis Nge (University of Adelaide, Australia) Biogeography of Pomaderris (Rhamnaceae) across the ditch.

ASBS Newsletter 181: 1

Helen Kennedy (University of New England, Australia) Integrative taxonomic revision of Melichrus (Ericaceae).

ASBS Newsletter 178: 1

No Poster Prize awarded.

Charles Foster (University of Sydney, Australia) There goes Thecanthes: molecular systematics expands the circumscription of Pimelea.

ASBS Newsletter: 168–169: 1

Charles Foster (University of Sydney, Australia) Estimating the evolutionary timescale of flowering plants using complete cp genome sequences.

ASBS Newsletter 165: 1

Sarah Wright (University of Canterbury, New Zealand) Connecting the dots: a population genetic study of the disjunctly distributed species Pittosporum obcordatum.

ASBS Newsletter 161: 28

Sook-Ngoh Phoon (Australian Tropical Herbarium, James Cook University, Australia) How many taxa in the West Malesian Elaeocarpus polystachyus group? Evidence from morphometric analysis.

ASBS Newsletter 157: 22

Benjamin Anderson (University of Western Australia, Australia) A revision of Rhynchotechum (Gesneriaceae).

ASBS Newsletter 153: 3

ASBS Conference was held as part of the International Botanical Congress and no student prizes were offered.

Austin Brown (National Herbarium of Victoria and The University of Adelaide, Australia) Morphological comparisons in Lachnagrostis across the ditch.

ASBS Newsletter: 144–5: 18

Bort Edwards (University of Queensland, Australia) Armidale conference: Drawing a line in the sand: differentiation between Melaleuca argentea and M. fluviatilis, two ecologically similar members of the broadleaf paperbark complex.

ASBS Newsletter: 141: 27

Bob Anderson Memorial Student Award past recipients (2013-present)

No recipient.

Matthew Adeleye (Australian National University, Australia) Region-specific Myrtaceae pollen morphology study is effective in separating fossil Myrtaceae pollen types

ASBS Newsletter 188: 13

No recipient; conference cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic.

Raees Khan (University of Adelaide, Australia) Game of cones: evolutionary trends and taxonomic significance of female cones in Podocarpaceae.

ASBS Newsletter 181: 1

Chapa Manawaduge (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) Conservation genetics of threatened native olives (genus Notolaea) in southern Queensland

ASBS Newsletter 178: 1

Rismita Sari (James Cook University, Cairns, Australia)

Isaac Kerr (University of Adelaide, Australia) A Ripogonum look-alike from the Oligocene of New Zealand: a lesson in the importance of cuticle

ASBS Newsletter: 168–169: 1

Janet Gagul (James Cook University, Cairns, Australia) Molecular phylogenetics of Elaeocarpus (Elaeocarpaceae) with a focus on New Guinea species

ASBS Newsletter 165: 1

Hernan Retamales (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) Character evolution in Myrceugenia (Myrtaceae): preliminary results using anatomical characters. 

ASBS Newsletter 161: 28

Joshua Buru (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) 

ASBS Newsletter 157: 22

Australian Conservation Taxonomy Award past Recipients (2012–2016)

  • Danielle Stringer (University of Adelaide, Australia) Zoology award: Investigating the evolution and systematics of endemic Haloniscus isopods (Oniscidea: Scyphacidae) from arid zone groundwater-dependent ecosystems using next generation sequencing techniques
    ASBS Newsletter 168-169: 16 (2016)
  • Charles Foster (University of Sydney, Australia) Botany award: Using high-throughput sequencing to resolve the complicated evolutionary history of rice flowers (Pimelea: Thymelaeaceae)
    ASBS Newsletter 168-169: 16 (2016)
  • Kirilee Chaplin (University of Melbourne and Museum Victoria, Australia) Zoology award: Taxonomy, ecology and conservation genetics of grassland earless dragons (Agamidae: Tympanocryptis spp.) in north-eastern Australia
    ASBS Newsletter 165: 23
  • James Clugston (RBG Sydney, enrolled at the University of Edinburgh, Australia) Botany award: Exploring new approaches for conservation genetics of Cycas calcicola Maconochie (Cycadaceae) in Australia
    ASBS Newsletter 165: 23
  • Rachael Fowler (University of Melbourne and RBG Victoria, Australia) Botany award: The genus Eremophila in Australia’s arid zone: phylogeny and biogeography in South Australia
    ASBS Newsletter 165: 23
  • James Shelley (University of Melbourne, Australia) Zoology award: The Kimberley Ark: assessing and conserving freshwater fish biodiversity in Australia’s last pristine river systems
    ASBS Newsletter 161: 16
  • No botany award.

Lalita Simpson (James Cook University, Australia) Botany award: What is at risk? Phylogeography and taxonomy of orchids endemic to Queensland’s mountain top biodiversity hotspots

ASBS Newsletter 157: 21

Todd McLay (University of Melbourne, Australia) Botany award: Classification, phylogeny and conservation of Xanthorrhoea in Western Australia

ASBS Newsletter 153: 22

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