The Genetics Society of Australasia coordinates an annual Student Research Grant scheme in support of the GSA postgraduate student community.
In 2025, we are delighted to partner once again with Illumina, the Ramaciotti Centre for Genomics and GenomNZ from The Bioeconomy Science Institute AgResearch Group to provide two exciting prizes: The Ramaciotti Centre for Genomics Illumina Award (for students at an Australian Institution) and The AgResearch Illumina Award (for students at Institutions in Aotearoa New Zealand or other Asia-Pacific countries).
The Ramaciotti Centre for Genomics Illumina Award includes an Illumina NovaSeq X Series 1.5B Reagent Kit (300 cycle) Flowcell and library construction (for up to: 24 WGS samples or 16 total RNAseq samples or 24 mRNAseq samples), valued at over $15,000!
The AgResearch Illumina Award included an Illumina NovaSeq 6000 S1 Reagent Kit v1.5 (300 cycle) Flowcell and library construction (for up to: 24 WGS samples or 16 total RNAseq samples or 24 mRNAseq samples), valued at over $15,000!
Applications are now open, and the completed application form (docx version / pdf version) must be submitted via email to GSA@asnevents.net.au by 11:59pm AEDT on the 26th of October 2025. Late submissions will not be completed.
Eligibility
Applicants must be a current member of GSA and must be enrolled in a postgraduate degree at an institution in the Australasian region.
Past Recipients
2024
Ramaciotti Centre for Genomics Illumina Award: Sajjad Reyhani Haghighi (Western Sydney University)
AgResearch Illumina Award: Sarah Walters (University of Otago)
2023
Ramaciotti Centre for Genomics Illumina Award: Sanjay Kumar Pradhan (Western Sydney University)
AgResearch Illumina Award: Mary Hawkes (University of Otago)
2022
Ramaciotti Centre for Genomics Illumina Award: Lorenzo Bertola (James Cook University)
2021
Ramaciotti Centre for Genomics Illumina Award: Oliver Stuart (Australian National University)
2020
Ramaciotti Centre for Genomics Illumina Award: Ruby Oberin (Hudson Institute / Monash University)
Point of Care Diagnostics Award: Megan Iminitoff (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research)
2019
Ramaciotti Centre for Genomics Illumina Award: Johanna Jones (University of Tasmania)
Point of Care Diagnostics Award: Andrew Baldi (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research)
Brightside Scientific Award: Laura Cook (University of Melbourne)
GSA thanks the following companies for their generous support and sponsorship of these grants:
