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October Newsletter
The last few months of the year are flying by and we hope that you are not feeling too jaded  as the holidays approach. Whitehead has had a very good year so far and we would like to thank all of our customers for your continued support. For more information on our product range please visit our website (www.whitesci.co.za )

Appointments
The Whitehead Scientific team has grown again and we are delighted to welcome two new members to our sales team.

A long term aim has finally been realized; Whitehead Scientific has opened a sales office in the KwaZulu Natal region, having engaged the services of Ms Karen Lumley. Karen, formerly of Adcock-Ingram Scientific Group has been appointed as an Applications Specialist for the Kwa-Zulu Natal region and the Eastern Cape. In addition Karen comes with specialist tissue culture knowledge and she is our new Cambrex Product Manager. Karen is based full time in the Durban region, where she will be visiting our clients on a regular basis, bringing product news and helping you with all your research application queries.
You can contact Karen on 082 375 6589 or e-mail her at karen@whitesci.co.za

We also welcome Kris Janse to the Cape Town sales office. Kris had been working at Medical Virology at UCT Medical School before making the switch to the commercial world. Kris has joined us to look after our sales of  plastic consumables, Cambrex tissue culture reagents and Labnet liquid handling instruments. He is an experienced molecular biologist with knowledge of cell culture and will prove a valuable addition to our Cape Town sales team.. You can contact Kris by e-mail at kris@whitesci.co.za

Travel Awards
We have made 5 new travel awards this year and it is great to be able to contribute to sending scientists to their conferences of choice. We have sent our regrets to a number of applicants too, which is hard to do but we do our best to apply the awards fairly, across all of the institutions that we deal with and across a broad a range of topics as possible. We have two more travel awards available, which we need to award before the end of February, so if you would like to find out more details, please check our website (http://www.whitesci.co.za/about.htm) or contact Shirley Ferris at Shirley@whitesci.co.za.

The following post-graduate students were awarded R2,500 towards the cost of travel and accommodation for conferences

• Yohannes Ghebremariam from the Department of Medical Virology at UCT attended the Experimental Biology 2006 Congress held in San Francisco.
• Natasha Sanabria from the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Johannesburg attended the 8th International Congress on Plant Molecular Biology in Adelaide.
• Catherine Arendse from the Department of Medical Biochemistry at the University of Cape Town attended the IUBMB conference in Kyoto
• Deshnie Govender from the Department of Human Biology at the University of Cape Town attended the European Society for Pigment Cell Research Conference, held in Barcelona.
• Victoria Gibbon from Department of Anatomical Sciences at Wits attended the European Anthropological Association conference in Budapest.

Natasha Sanabria receiving her award from Barbara Moore of Whitehead Scientific

Deshnie Govender from UCT Department of Human Biology with her travel award

If you think that your own institution is unrepresented then please apply soon!

Whitehead has also given a number of other awards and prizes over  the course of the year including a monetary award for post graduate students from the department of molecular and cell biology at UCT for publishing a paper in an international journal. We have also supported an Honors student  prize at the department of Biochemistry at the University of Stellenbosch. Our policy is to try and support funding at the post graduate level, so if you do have an idea for your own departments please do contact us. We can’t promise to say yes every time but we will consider each request on its merits.