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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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Wednesday August 21, 2024

A special issue to celebrate IWD in 2025 A Wiley interdisciplinary special issue on Gender Equity in Healthcare will be released on International Women’s Day 2025, featuring contributions from 51 journals. Immunology & Cell Biology (ICB) invites ASI members to contribute to this initiative. ICB’s feature, “Advancing Equity and Inclusion in Healthcare: An Immunological Call to Action,” will address the underrepresentation of all minorities (gender, ethnicity, disability) in healthcare, including funding disparities, research biases, publishing disparities, and access to mentorship and institutional support. Don't miss this wonderful ...
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Monday July 15, 2024

Congratulations to Kim O'Sullivan 2022 ASI Career Advancement Awardee   We warmly congratulate Kim O'Sullivan winner of the 2023 ASI Career Advancement Award --   I completed my undergraduate studies and Master’s Degree in Anatomy and Structural Biology at the University of Otago, New Zealand. Within these areas of study, the closest I came to any Immunology was a 2nd year Microbiology Unit that briefly covered the 5 classes of antibody. You could say I kind of “fell” into Immunology when in 2002 I joined the Autoimmune Kidney Disease ...
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Wednesday July 10, 2024

We warmly invite your applications for the ASI Awards - Round #4 (July-August). These are a major benefit to being an ASI member, so please check your eligibility now and start compiling your applications.
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Monday July 01, 2024

Congratulations to Danika Hill 2022 ASI Margaret Baird Awardee   We warmly congratulate Danika Hill winner of the 2022 ASI Margaret Baird Women in Immunology Award --   I lead the Precision Vaccinology Laboratory within the Department of Immunology at Monash University. Our research focuses on elucidating the cellular and molecular mechanisms that underpin antibody responses to vaccination and infection, with a particular emphasis on T follicular helper cells and the Germinal Centre response. Our research is focussed on  unraveling how immunity to Group A Streptococcus, malaria, influenza, ...
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Thursday June 20, 2024

Travel4Expertise – The Grant for Caregivers Applications close September 30th 2024 The opportunity to train in new techniques or analyses often requires researchers to travel to different institutes, cities or countries. These training visits can take weeks to months. While there are several opportunities for researcher to access travel and research funds to learn new techniques from other researchers (in labs, at workshops or courses), these opportunities may not be practical for those with carer duties. To promote equitable opportunities for research, ...
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Tuesday April 23, 2024

Congratulations to Leslie Dominguez Cadena 2023 ASI Career Advancement Awardee - Postgraduate Category   We warmly congratulate Leslie Dominguez Cadena Recipient of a 2023 ASI Career Advancement Award - Postgraduate Category --   As a recipient of an ASI Career Advancement Award in 2023, I want to express my deepest gratitude to the Australian and New Zealand Society for Immunology for their support of my education. I feel extremely fortunate and thankful to have been awarded with this honour. My curiosity, passion for learning, and desire to use knowledge for ...
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Tuesday April 16, 2024

Congratulations to Lelinh Duong 2023 ASI Career Advancement Awardee - Postgraduate Category   We warmly congratulate Lelinh Duong Recipient of a 2023 ASI Career Advancement Award - Postgraduate Category   I am a final year PhD candidate in the Immunoageing Lab at Curtin University, Western Australia, under the supervision of Dr Connie Jackaman. Our team investigates changes to innate immune responses during ageing and the impact on age-related disease, including cancer, muscle repair and dementia. My research is focused on investigating the underlying mechanisms of macrophage dysfunction in the ...
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Tuesday April 09, 2024

Congratulations to Timothy McCulloch 2022 ASI Career Advancement Awardee - Postgraduate Category   We warmly congratulate Timothy McCulloch Recipient of a 2022 ASI Career Advancement Award - Postgraduate Category   My name is Timothy McCulloch, and I am honoured to have been awarded a postgraduate ASI Career Advancement Award in 2022. I completed my PhD in 2023 under the supervision of Associate Professor Fernando Guimaraes at the Frazer Institute, University of Queensland. During this time my research focused on how the immune response is dysregulated during bacterial infection, leading ...
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Tuesday April 02, 2024

Congratulations to Zoe Magill 2023 ASI Career Advancement Awardee - Postgraduate Category   We warmly congratulate Zoe Magill Recipient of a 2023 ASI Career Advancement Award - Postgraduate Category   I am a PhD student at the Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University. In 2019, I completed my undergraduate double degree studying a Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Arts at Monash University, where I majored in Immunology and International Relations, respectively. My study of immunology at Monash University ignited my curiosity and passion to understand how dendritic cells ...
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Monday March 25, 2024

Offers from our Sustaining Members Don't miss out on these great offers from our Sustaining Members! Miltenyi Biotec Learn more about the integrated solutions from basic research to clinical application Abacus dx Your invitation to the Multiplex User Group Event Australia BioResources Check out all the ABR services on offer Ozgene Offering Full Spectrun pre-clinical services Stemcell Technologies Streamline your T Cell therapy development Lonza Enhancing T-cell culture to accelerate therapy development United BioResearch Check out the FlexAble Antibody Labelling Kits BD Discover how to minimise spillover, maximise breakthroughs Cayman Chemical Discover modulators of cGAS activity
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Thursday March 07, 2024

Congratulations to Di Yu, 2021 ASI Career Advancement Awardee - Ada category   We warmly congratulate Di Yu recipient of the 2021 ASI Career Advancement Award - Gordon Ada category -- Advancing the careers of ASI Members   I'm deeply appreciative of the support from the ASI Gordon Ada Career Advancement Award, which facilitated my attendance at the Seventh CRI-ENCI-AACR International Cancer Immunotherapy Conference (CICON23, 20-23 September, Milan, Italy) and the Keystone symposium “T and B Cell Collaboration in Germinal Centres and Beyond” (1-4 October, Whistler, Canada). This support ...
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Friday March 01, 2024

ASI Awards Judging Panel  Submit your EOI before March 25th 2024 Application Round: Mar 4th - 25th 2024 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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