ABCT Graduate Mr LI Shaoyang Alvin (Right) with his research supervisor, Dr CHUA Song-Lin (Middle)
【ABCT Graduate receives the International Accreditation Top Project Award 2022 of Royal Society of Biology】
We are most delighted to announce that Mr LI Shaoyang Alvin, graduated with a First Class Honours degree in BSc (Hons) in Applied Biology with Biotechnology in 2021, has received the International Accreditation Top Project Award 2022 of Royal Society of Biology in recognition of his outstanding final-year research project and abilities as a biologist.
With the guidance and support from his research supervisor, Dr CHUA Song-Lin, Alvin has built up his strengths and set a solid foundation for his future advances in the bioscience field. His award-winning project entitled “Biofilm matrix cloaks bacterial quorum sensing chemoattractants from predator detection” elucidated the restriction of bacterial communication activities to the confinements of biofilms for predator evasion. This novel mechanism plays a fundamental role in shaping the dynamics of microbial communities and predator-prey interactions, with implications in microbial diseases and ecology. His research findings were published in the The ISME Journal: Multidisciplinary Journal of Microbial Ecology.
The International Accreditation Top Project Award is an annual award conferred by The Royal Society of Biology (RSB). RSB is a prestigious professional association for biological sciences in the UK which support and advance the interests of biology in education, research and community. Our ABB Programme was the first international accredited undergraduate programme by RSB, and our graduates are qualified for membership of RSB. Each year, only a few selected graduates from the accredited degree of RSB is eligible to win the top project award.
Let us take this opportunity to congratulate Alvin on his excellent achievement.
