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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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Thursday May 15, 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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Monday April 07, 2025

Congratulations to ALEXANDRA CAREY HOPPÉ 2024 ASI CAREER ADVANCEMENT - POSTGRADUATE AWARDEE     We warmly congratulate Alexandra Carey Hoppé winner of the 2024 ASI Career Advancement – Postgraduate Award.   I am currently in my final year of my PhD candidature within the Immunovirology and Pathogenesis Program at the Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney, under the supervision of Dr Mee Ling Munier, A/Prof Vanessa Venturi and Prof Anthony Kelleher. In my past life I was a professional contemporary dancer however I have now thrown away the leotards and ...
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Monday April 07, 2025

Congratulations to Harry Horsnell 2024 ASI Travel Awardee   We warmly congratulate Harry Horsnell winner of the 2024 ASI Travel Award - Postdoctoral   My name is Harry Horsnell, and I started my career in immunology at University College London (UK) in the lab of Dr Sophie Acton. During my PhD I worked on understanding how stromal cells use physical forces to control the immune function of lymph nodes. To continue my research career, I moved to the Peter Doherty Institute (PDI) in September 2022. I joined Professor Scott ...
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Thursday March 20, 2025

Congratulations to Mee Ling Munier 2024 ASI Gordon Ada Travel Awardee   We warmly congratulate Mee Ling Munier winner of the 2024 ASI Gordon Ada Travel Award -- Supporting mid career ASI members who wish to travel for career related purposes I am a Senior Research Fellow and group leader of the Vaccine Immunogenomics group within the Immunovirology and Pathogenesis Program at the Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney. The broad aim of my research is to understand and characterise the human immune response to vaccination and viral infection.  We utilise ...
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Tuesday March 18, 2025

Congratulations to Laura Cook 2022 ASI Gordon Ada Career Advancement Awardee   We warmly congratulate Laura Cook winner of the 2022 ASI Gordon Ada Career Advancement Award Supporting mid career ASI members who wish to travel for career related purposes I am an NHMRC Emerging Leadership Investigator and Senior Research Officer in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne at the Doherty Institute. My group is pursuing studies of immune regulation, with a focus on regulatory T cells. We are particularly interested in mechanisms that enhance ...
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Tuesday March 04, 2025

Equity Diversity and Inclusion Committee Update     An update from Sumaira Hasnain ASI Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Coordinator and Chair, EDI Committee    It is with great pleasure that I write my first column in my capacity as the new Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Chair at the Australian and New Zealand Society for Immunology. Having served as the Deputy Chair for the past year, I want to extend a heartfelt thank you to the outgoing EDI Chair, Prof. Diana Hansen, and her predecessor, Dr Kylin ...
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Monday March 03, 2025

Congratulations to Charis Teh, 2024 ASI Margaret Baird Awardee   We warmly congratulate Charis Teh winner of the Margaret Baird Women in Immunology ASI Award    Cracking the code for cancer treatment is the ultimate goal. My team is getting closer to this by identifying the 'kill switch' that makes regulatory T (Treg) cells self-destruct and harnessing the knowledge for new Treg-based immunotherapies.  My journey in immunology and cell death biology has taken me through world-renowned laboratories: I completed my PhD under Professors Christopher Goodnow and Anselm Enders at ...
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Wednesday February 26, 2025

Congratulations to Prerna Mudai, 2024 ASI Global Outreach Awardee   We warmly congratulate Prerna Mudai winner of the 2024 ASI Global Outreach Award --   I would like to extend my gratitude and appreciation to the ASI Award Committee for selecting me for the Global Outreach Award. I am a PhD candidate at the Innate Immunology Lab, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences at the University of Queensland (UQ). I am working on a project on Toll-like receptor 2 signalling mechanisms under the supervision of Prof. Katryn Stacey. I ...
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Monday February 24, 2025

ASI Awards Judging Panel  Submit your EOI before March 31st 2025 Application Round: Feb 24th - Mar 31st 2025 As ASI continues to grow, we give back more to our members by providing numerous awards and funding opportunities throughout the year. Back in 2019, we introduced a new ASI initiative - the ASI Awards Judging Panel.  We established a group of members who were keen to give back a little and willing to act as assessors for scoring ASI award applications. We now invite ASI members to ...
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Monday February 24, 2025

Congratulations to Zhoujie Ding winner of the 2024 ASI Breakthrough Immunology Award and Women’s Initiative Travel Award     We warmly congratulate Zhoujie Ding winner of the 2024 ASI Breakthrough Immunology Award and Women’s Initiative Travel Award   I am a Group Leader in the Department of Immunology within the School of Translational Medicine at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. I am part of the Tarlinton Immune Memory Laboratory and currently co-lead an NHMRC Ideas Grant project focusing on plasma cell biology in health and disease.  I completed my PhD study in ...
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Friday February 21, 2025

Win an AUD200 cash prize for an ASI News Blog contribution! We are offering current ASI members the opportunity to win AUD200 for selected editorial-style contributions to the ASI newsletter blog*.  This opportunity is for members only, so please click here to renew your membership if you haven't already.  Email our ASI Digital News Coordinator with a brief (2-3 sentence) description of your proposed editorial contribution to find out if your idea is a good fit, before you write. Contributions need to relate to immunology or ...
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Friday January 31, 2025

  Submit your abstract for IUIS 2025 Vienna Abstracts close Feb 11th 2025 Click here for the IUIS 2025 abstracts page  
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Friday January 17, 2025

Inviting 2025 Membership Renewals now  We warmly welcome our new ASI Members and many thanks to all of our members who have already renewed for this year. Please consider renewing your ASI membership now by clicking the green button below. March 31st is the deadline for awards eligibility Don't forget that eligibility for most ASI awards require renewal by March 31st, so please renew now.  Renew now in under 2 min
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Thursday December 19, 2024

Many congratulations to the following people for receiving our prestigious ASI Awards and Special Honours. 🏆 ASI SPECIAL HONOURS Honorary Life Membership Lynn Corcoran Anthony Cunningham Ken Shortman Jonathan Sprent Rowley Medallist David Tarlinton Foundation Lecturer Antony Basten Burnet Oration Carola Vinuesa Doherty Medallists Susan Christo Carolien van de Sandt 🏆 ASI AWARDS Breakthrough Immunology Awards Etienne Masle-Farquhar ​Zhoujie Ding Margaret Baird Women in Immunology Award Charis Teh ASI Women's Initiative Travel Awards Kunyu Li  Zhoujie Ding Kavita Bisht Khalida Perveen Travel Award - Jacques Miller category Roslyn Kemp Travel Award - Gordon Ada category C. Mee Ling Munier Lucille Rankin ​Catarina F dos Santos Sa e Almeida Asolina Braun Kerrie Sandgren Kok Fei (Jimmy) ...
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Wednesday December 18, 2024

🚩 Discontinuation of Autorenewal Payment Option Dear ASI Members, We recently wrote to those members currently using the autorenewal payment option for their membership fees (Dec 18th 2024) Regretfully, after 2 years of close monitoring and consideration, we will be cancelling autorenewal as an option to pay your ASI membership.  This means that from January 1st, all membership payments will be done via the standard ‘renewal’ link. What you need to do There is no action needed from you to cancel your auto renewal. Please see ...
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