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Tuesday May 18, 2021
Congratulations to the winners of our competition!
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Thursday April 22, 2021
ASI Newsletter competition -
Submit your “lab hacks”
We’re running a special column in next quarter’s newsletter of simple and fun lab hacks/tricks you’ve discovered and would like to share with fellow ASI members.
Have you been using a disposable glove cuff as a hair tie when you’ve forgotten yours? Or maybe you’ve been using textbooks to create a cheap but effective laptop stand?
Click here to download our March Newsletter to see pictures of these examples.
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Thursday March 25, 2021
We are seeking Expressions of Interest from current ASI members who may wish to attend the KAI 2021 Hybrid meeting.
The Korean Association of Immunologists have generously offered several KAI 2021 Scholarships to ASI members. This scholarship will cover the online conference registration fees.
KAI will be held from June 2-4 2021.
Application Open Dates: March 25 - April 1 2021.
Eligibility:
Applicants must have been full (not interim) Ordinary or Student members of ASI in 2020.
Applicants must have paid their 2021 membership subscription before ...
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Tuesday March 23, 2021
More COVID relief for members:
Free 2021 Student Memberships
Applicable to student renewals received between Jan 1st - April 1st 2021
Great news for students!
Given the challenging times we are in, we recently showed our support for members by announcing the new ASI Career Advancement Awards and the Carer Awards - COVID support.
Today we have more great news! We are pleased to inform our student members that their 2021 ASI membership will be reimbursed to them.
This fantastic offer is applicable to both ...
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Friday March 19, 2021
Please click here to visit our Newsletter page and download your copy of the March 2021 ASI Newsletter.
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Tuesday March 16, 2021
2021 Margaret Baird Lecture
Thank you to everyone who joined us on 9th March 2021 including our very special guests - the Baird family.
If you missed it on the day, the recording is available for your viewing below.
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Tuesday March 09, 2021
We welcome our new ASI Sustaining Member: Cayman Chemical
Our ASI Sustaining Members recognise the importance of supporting ASI and Immunology researchers in Australia and New Zealand.
We are grateful and proud to introduce our newest ASI Sustaining Member: Cayman Chemical.
Helping Make Research Possible
Cayman Chemical is a global provider of life science products and services
to advance biomedical research and enable new therapies.
Specializing in chemical synthesis, assay and antibody development, and preclinical drug discovery, Cayman creates and supplies small molecules, assay kits, antibodies, and ...
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Friday February 26, 2021
How to win your own autographed copy of Peter Doherty's book, "Pandemics"...
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Wednesday February 24, 2021
As the pandemic evolved in 2020 we introduced changes to some of the ASI awards to allow for broader scope/ flexibility, including the new Career Advancement Awards scheme as an alternative to the conventional International Travel Awards. In 2021, we will continue with these awards as per 2020. In 2020 we also launched two exciting new ASI awards, the Cheers-Buchan Education Award and Public Engagement Award.
2021 ASI Awards Application Rounds
Please see the 2021 schedule below for each of the award ...
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Monday February 22, 2021
We welcome our new ASI Sustaining Member: PeproTech
Our ASI Sustaining Members recognise the importance of supporting ASI and Immunology researchers in Australia and New Zealand.
We are grateful and proud to introduce our newest ASI Sustaining Member: PeptroTech.
About PeproTech
PeproTech creates the building blocks of your life science research by manufacturing high-quality products that advance scientific discovery and human health. Since 1988, we have grown into a global enterprise with state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities in the US, and offices around the world.
With over 2,000 products, ...
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Wednesday January 13, 2021
ASI Media Release
13th Jan 2021. Amended.
Clarification by The Australian and New Zealand Society for Immunology in response to comments published in The Age and the SMH on 13th Jan 2021.
In response to articles published in The Age and The SMH on the 13th Jan 2021, the Australian and New Zealand Society for Immunology (ASI) would like to expand on comments attributed to Professor Stephen Turner and ASI. Regarding a pause on the rollout of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Vaccine, the President of ...
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Friday December 18, 2020
Please click here to visit our Newsletter page and download your copy of the December 2020 ASI Newsletter.
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Wednesday December 16, 2020
ASI Position Vacant: Editorial Assistant (ICB & CTI)
Due to the significant growth of our ASI journals Immunology & Cell Biology and Clinical & Translational Immunology, we are now seeking an Editorial Assistant for our journals.
This would best suit someone with existing editorial experience or a strong interest in gaining experience in the publishing sphere.
This is a remotely-located, contracted role requiring a time commitment of approximately 4 hours per week.
Click the green button below for more details.
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Friday December 11, 2020
Senga Whittingham
As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up?
A poet. I grossly over-estimated my talents.
How many hours of sleep do you get?
Varies.
How many coffees/ teas do you drink per day?
During lockdown a cup of coffee at the end of a walk proved therapeutic, and the number of teas are those required to maintain fluid balance.
Which immune cell is your favourite?
The B lymphocyte. The B lymphocyte was yet unnamed in 1960 when overnight I underwent my conversion ...
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Wednesday December 09, 2020
Many congratulations to the following people for receiving our prestigious ASI Awards and Special Honours.
ASI AWARDS AND SPECIAL HONOURS
Margaret Baird Women in Immunology Lectureship Award
Michelle Boyle, QIMR-Berghofer Medical Research Institute
Jared Purton - ASI Awards
1st Prize: Camille Guillerey, Mater Medical Research Institute, University of Queensland
2nd Prize: Junyun Lai, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
International Travel Award - Jacques Miller
Barbara Fazekas de St Groth, University of Sydney
Career Advancement Awards - Gordon Ada
Fernando Guimaraes, University of Queensland Diamantina Institute
Sumaira Hasnain, Mater Medical Research Institute, University of Queensland
Farzaneh Kordbacheh, Australian ...
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Wednesday December 09, 2020
ASMR wishes to pass on the following message to ASI members.
Dear Affiliate Members,
“#advanceaustraliacare” campaign
Funding of NHMRC grants is at an unprecedented low, and the health and medical research sector is unstable and on the brink of collapse. The ongoing lack of investment into the NHMRC grant schemes has highlighted that Australia is missing out on the benefits of a lot of great research. Help us show Australians and our government what we could achieve if the NHMRC had greater investment.
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Monday December 07, 2020
ASI Expert Panel Series: The Best of ICB -
recording now available
An event like no other
On the 26th Nov 2020, we shone a spotlight on 3 Immunology superstars whose papers were selected as part of our ICB Virtual Issue "The Best of ICB".
Congratulations to:
Prof. David Tarlinton, Monash University
"BAFF, IL‐4 and IL‐21 separably program germinal center‐like phenotype acquisition, BCL6 expression, proliferation and survival of CD40L‐activated B cells in vitro"
A/Prof. Meredith O'Keeffe, Monash University
"Daptomycin‐resistant Staphylococcus aureus clinical isolates are poorly sensed by dendritic cells"
Prof. Weisan Chen, La Trobe University
"Host CD8α+ and ...
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Friday December 04, 2020
ASI Annual Conferences webpage
This week we would have been at our 2020 Annual Scientific Meeting which regretfully could not go ahead.
If you're missing our meetings as much as we are, feel free to visit our ASI webpage showing the locations of the next few conferences.
Take a trip down memory lane
View our photo gallery page!
You'll see we've started publishing quality photos of our conferences on our website! Our Local Organising Committees put in a lot of time and effort in bringing ...
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Wednesday December 02, 2020
Message from our ASI FIMSA Representative
As your FIMSA representative, I would like to inform you of the upcoming meeting for the Japanese Society of Immunology (JSI).
There is a fantastic line up of speakers for their virtual conference "COVID-19 and Immunity" on the 8th December 2020, so don't miss this!
JSI has very generously extended the discounted pricing usually reserved for JSI members, to ASI members as affiliates of FIMSA.
Click here to view the registration fees.
Simply enter the special code '9999' at ...
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Friday November 20, 2020
Creating our 'Immunology Concepts' page
Science communication has never been more important. Here at ASI we've seen a dramatic surge of interest from the public in popular immunology topics, as the broader community are seeking easy-to-understand information from reliable organisations such as ASI.
In the public section of our website, we are growing our resources for the non-scientific community who are interested in learning more about Immunology basics.
ASI Council recently approved the use of 'Special Initiative' funds to build our video resources ...
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