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Friday May 30, 2025

A message from your ASI FIMSA Representative Dear ASI Members, The IUIS education committee is organising a course titled Immuno-Cambodia: Immune Responses to Arbovirus Infections from a One Health Perspective, to be held in Siem Reap, Cambodia, from November 23–29, 2025. Please click here to view the flyer. The organisers are currently seeking lecturers for the course. In particular, they are looking for experts who can speak on the following topics: Innate immunity in mosquitoes or other insects Therapeutic immunity in mosquitoes or other insects Antibody responses ...
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Wednesday May 21, 2025

Congratulations to Ha Tran 2024 ASI Travel Awardee   We warmly congratulate Ha Tran winner of the 2024 ASI Travel Award   I’m currently pursuing my PhD in Reproductive Immunology Group at the Robinson Research Institute, University of Adelaide. Originally from Vietnam, I moved to Alice Springs (Mparntwe) in 2008 and later relocated to Adelaide in 2019 to pursue my undergraduate studies in Immunology and Bioinformatics. My research is centred around the study of mammalian reproduction and development, with a focus on the immune regulation of fertility and pregnancy by ...
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Sunday May 18, 2025

Congratulations to Erica Stewart 2024 ASI Travel Awardee   We warmly congratulate Erica Stewart winner of the 2024 ASI Travel Award (Postdoctoral)   I am an immunologist and vaccinologist interested in studying the immune responses to mucosal vaccines, especially after respiratory delivery. I underwent my PhD training from 2019 to 2023 at the University of Sydney as part of Professor Jamie Triccas’s lab. In my doctoral studies we were interested in characterising the immune mechanisms behind the success of a new vaccine adjuvant, Advax. Following the completion of my PhD, ...
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Saturday May 17, 2025

Congratulations to Oliver Skinner 2023 ASI Career Advancement Award   We warmly congratulate Oliver Skinner winner of the 2023 ASI Career Advancement Award   I am a postdoctoral researcher in A/Prof. Ashraful Haque's lab at the Peter Doherty Institute, University of Melbourne. I would like to gratefully thank ASI for the career advancement award which has helped support conference travel and meeting collaborators. A summer's day in Galway city centre during some downtime after the EMBO workshop. After completing my PhD at the Garvan Institute with Prof. Mike Rogers and ...
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Thursday May 15, 2025

Congratulations to Roland Ruscher 2023 ASI Gordon Ada Award   We warmly congratulate Roland Ruscher winner of the 2023 ASI Gordon Ada Award -- Supporting mid career ASI members who wish to travel for career related purposes My name is Roland Ruscher, I am a Senior Research Fellow at the Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine (AITHM), located in the tropical north of Queensland. I started my research group in 2022, focussing on the complex dynamics of intestinal barrier surface immunity. In 2023, I was honoured with the ...
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Thursday May 15, 2025

Congratulations to Haressh Sajiir 2024 ASI Postgraduate Career Advancement Awardee   We warmly congratulate Haressh Sajiir winner of the 2024 ASI Postgraduate Career Advancement Award -- Recognising and further advancing the research of student members of ASI at a critical point in their career I am honoured to have received the ASI Postgraduate Career Advancement Award, which has significantly supported my transition into the next phase of my academic career. I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Queensland, where I am deeply invested in understanding the complex ...
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Thursday May 15, 2025

Congratulations to Yomani Sarathkumara 2024 ASI Postdoctoral Travel Awardee   We warmly congratulate Yomani Sarathkumara winner of the 2024 ASI Postdoctoral Travel Award -- Supporting early-mid career members of ASI who wish to travel overseas for career-related purposes I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Molecular Immunology Lab at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland under the supervision of Professor Denise Doolan. I completed my PhD (2023) in the same lab at the Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine (AITHM), James Cook University.  Our research ...
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Thursday May 15, 2025

Congratulations to Ailin Lepletier 2023 ASI Carer's Grant Recipient   We warmly congratulate Ailin Lepletier recipient of the 2023 ASI Carer's Grant -- Supporting primary carers to be able to attend ASI Branch Meetings and the ASI Annual Meeting I am Ailin, a Research Fellow Grade 2 at the Institute for Biomedicine and Glycomics, Griffith University. My research career has centered on understanding T cell development and function, particularly focusing on novel strategies to identify and target dysfunctional T cell responses during aging, cancer, infectious diseases and autoimmunity. With eight years ...
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