VAPE What's in it? Does it pose any health risk? Caitlin shared what she's found from her research and how vapes might not contain what you think they do 🤯

Very interesting talk about a wicked challenge "microplastics". Subharthe shared his research on how he's tackling the challenge of microplastics pollution in Australia

Developing a method for the analysis of selective androgen receptor modulators (SARMs) using LCMS is certainly not an easy tasks. Maddy shared her experiences on all of the optimisations she's done to design the perfect one

If you've had COVID and you feel like you need more naps and have brain fogs, it might be COVID's side effects. Victoria shared how COVID could change the chemicals in your brain by using rat models and infrared microspectroscopy.

Different immunolabels could have different effects on the concentrations of endogenous elements and antibody tag! Monique shared her research on how different sample prep processes could have more effects on your analysis than you think

Endocrine disrupting chemicals (ECDs) are everywhere and they might be harmful! Maya shared her research on the identification of these ECDs using LC-HRMS to create a database of the thousands of chemicals

Fan of beet roots? Connor shared his research findings on the metabolomic effects of the non protein amino acid AZE, commonly found in beets. Very interesting results!

Ended the day with a talk from Hans on the analysis of amino acids in fast food meals 🍔🍟 cool findings!

The quiz codeword is fortitude.

Transparent, ultra-thin and conductive! Luiza shared how she synthesised her PEDOT films using electrodeposition with hyaluronic acid as the dopant

Quantifying Selenium might be harder than it seems! In addition, identifying the speciation is also very important. David shared his journey in developing and optimising SQA for the analysis of Se in water samples.

Bivalve 🦪not biceps 💪 Siobhan shared her research on quantifying BMAA which is linked to neurotoxicity in mussels! Certainly not an easy task due to matrices complexity.

How can you be sure that the hop oil you're buying is 100% pure? Kevin shared how he developed an identification and quantification technique to detect hop adulteration!

Microplaastics, nanoplastics, and all tiny plastics out there. Nipuni shared her research on the extraction of nanoplastics using microelectromembrane extraction

The Australian first nations people are the first scientists on the land. There are so much we could learn from them. Dr Katherine shared how her role has allowed her to combine traditional and western science knowledge. She also shared her aspiring career pathway

Big congratss to our oral presentation award winners: Victoria, Steven, and Jordan!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉

Massive congratulations to our poster award winners: Boris, Oisin, and Shelby!! 🎉🎉🎉

And shoutouts to our best chair, best questioner and best answerer of questions: Oscar, Adam and Kevin! 🎉🎉🎉

Ended #RnDTopics2023 with a cruise around Sydney Harbour. Big thank you to everyone who has attended and made this a great conference!

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