Our Undergraduate Summer Interns have been busy working on their projects as part of the inaugural Mentoring Training and Development (MTD) Portfolio Undergraduate Summer Internship Program.

Please join us for their final presentations as they wrap-up this exciting experience!

Speakers: MTD Portfolio UG Summer Internship Program recipients will present their projects.

• Anthea Sun, UQ – The challenges in public engagement with quantum technology (Allison Fish)
• Alex Wright, UTS – Detection and Quantification of Amyloid-β Biomarkers for Alzheimer’s Disease in Plasma (Jiajia Zhou)
• Laz Ashcroft, UOW – Analysis of neuronal function using novel quantum tools (Lezanne Ooi & Dzung Do-Ha)
• Nicholas Fantham, UOW – Molecular dynamics simulations of the secondary structure propensities of the conserved region in TDP-43 (Haibo Yu)
• Lianne Lay, Uni Melb – Cheap and flexible quantum measurement platforms for spin relaxation measurements of defects centres in nanodiamond (David Simpson)

Date: Friday, 7 February
Time: 12pm AEST (Brisbane) / 1pm AEDT (Melbourne/Sydney)
Location: Zoom https://uqz.zoom.us/j/87892589567

Each student will speak for approx. 8 minutes, plus a few minutes for questions following each presentation.

For those at UQ, please join us in-person at 01-E219 – Forgan Smith Building (East Wing), Seminar Room for the seminar followed by refreshments and networking. A follow up email will be sent to UQ node members with further details.

For those at UTS, UOW and Uni Melb, please contact your respective node administrator for details around attending this event in-person.