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Friday September 06, 2024

We invite nominations for ASI Council 2025 We are pleased to now invite nominations to ASI Council, for appointment after the Annual General Meeting on Nov 27th 2024. It's a great time to get involved with ASI. Membership numbers and engagement are at a record high for the society, as we continue to offer wonderful opportunities and create new initiatives for our members. Positions will commence immediately after the 2024 Annual General Meeting on November 27th 2024. Why nominate for ASI Council? ✔️ Make a ...
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Wednesday September 04, 2024

Congratulations to Kirsten Ward-Hartstonge 2023 ASI Women's Initiative Awardee   We warmly congratulate Kirsten Ward-Hartstonge winner of the 2023 ASI Women's Initiative Award -- I am a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Otago. I work in Professor Roslyn Kemp’s Lab, where we study the immune responses of people with inflammatory bowel diseases and cancer. I was awarded the 2023 Women’s Initiative Award to attend the international Australian and New Zealand Society for Immunology Conference in Auckland. This award allowed me to bring my 1-year old daughter with me ...
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Wednesday September 04, 2024

Congratulations to Katie Daly 2022 ASI Career Advancement Awardee   We warmly congratulate Katie Daly winner of the 2022 ASI Career Advancement Award --     My name is Katie Daly and I received this award during my final year of PhD studies being supervised by Dr Jemma Mayall and Professor Jay Horvat of the University of Newcastle. The research performed by our lab group focuses on identifying the underlying immunological mechanisms of disease in chronic respiratory conditions and infections which may be modulated therapeutically to develop novel treatments. My ...
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Wednesday September 04, 2024

Congratulations to Phoebe Dewar 2022 ASI Career Advancement Awardee   We warmly congratulate Phoebe Dewar winner of the 2022 Career Advancement Award  -- My name is Phoebe, and I am a final year PhD Student in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Melbourne. In 2018 I completed my undergraduate degree in Biomedical Sciences, majoring in Infection and Immunity at the University of Otago. Following this, I completed an honours research project and two summer internships at the University of Otago with Professor James Ussher, investigating ...
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Wednesday September 04, 2024

Congratulations to Heeva Baharlou 2023 ASI Career Advancement Awardee   We warmly congratulate Heeva Baharlou winner of the 2023 Career Advancement Award  -- I am a medical student and postdoctoral researcher in Andrew Harman’s laboratory at the Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Sydney, Australia. I completed my PhD at the University of Sydney in 2022 where I developed new methods to spatially map the early events underlying the sexual transmission of HIV. My focus on systems-based approaches to analysis drew me to using spatial methods to study the biology of ...
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Sunday September 01, 2024

Congratulations to Adrian Ilich 2023 ASI Career Advancement Awardee   We warmly congratulate Adrian Ilich winner of the 2023 ASI Career Advancement Award --   My name is Adrian, and I am a third year PhD student based at QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute. I completed my undergraduate degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Queensland before starting an MPhil in A/Prof Severine Navarro’s Mucosal Immunology Lab. After a year of study, I was nominated and successfully articulated my MPhil degree into a PhD as I ...
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