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Thursday July 31, 2025

Notice to abstract submitters - ASI 2025  Thank you to those who submitted an abstract in for consideration at ASI 2025 Perth. These are currently undergoing review by our Scientific Program Committee. 🔗 Please feel free to watch this space for any updates to Key Dates. If you submitted an abstract, you should have received an instant email acknowledgement.  If you did not receive an email at the time of submitting, please: Check your spam folders, and mark as ‘safe sender’. Contact your uni / institute IT ...
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Friday July 11, 2025

Congratulations to Natalia G Sampaio ASI Career Advancement Awardee   We warmly congratulate Natalia G Sampaio winner of the ASI Career Advancement Award --   I am a senior postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Innate Immunity and Infectious Diseases at the Hudson Institute in Melbourne, working in the Regulation of Interferon and Innate Signalling group led by Prof. Paul Hertzog. My work focuses on innate immune signalling pathways, in particular on nucleic acid receptors and viral sensing. I am now leading new research on RNA-binding receptors of ...
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Friday July 04, 2025

Congratulations to Oanh Nguyen     We warmly congratulate Oanh Nguyen winner of the Jared Purton Award --   I am a Senior Research Fellow in Professor Katherine Kedzierska’s Laboratory, in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology at the University of Melbourne. We are located within the Doherty Institute. In 2023, I was awarded the ASI Jared Purton Award to attend the 2024 3rd CEIRR Annual Network Meeting, which happened on 21st-24th of July this year in New York City. The Centers of Excellence for Influenza Research and Response (CEIRR) Annual ...
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Thursday July 03, 2025

Congratulations to Ying Wong 2024 ASI Travel Awardee (Postdoctoral)   We warmly congratulate Ying Wong winner of the 2024 ASI Travel Award   I am a Breakthrough T1D Postdoctoral Fellow in the Molecular Immunology Lab at the University of Adelaide, currently leading the Type 1 diabetes (T1D) immunogenomics research program. My work leverages cutting-edge methodologies such as single-cell ATAC-seq, RNA-seq and Hi-C to identify early gene signatures associated with disease progression and predict progression risk in children with genetic predisposition of T1D.  In partnership with the Environmental Determinants of Islet Autoimmunity ...
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Tuesday July 01, 2025

Congratulations to Carolien van de Sandt 2023 ASI Career Advancement Awardee (Ada category)   We warmly congratulate Carolien van de Sandt winner of the 2023 ASI Career Advancement Award (Ada category)   I am a Research Fellow in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Peter Doherty Institute, University of Melbourne (UoM). My research focusses on improving our understanding on how immunity is formed and why it fails in at-risk populations like the elderly and immunocompromised individuals. My aim is to use this knowledge to repaired immunity when it ...
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