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Tuesday December 23, 2025

Many congratulations to the following people for receiving our prestigious ASI Awards and Special Honours. 🏆 ASI SPECIAL HONOURS Rowley Medallists Roslyn Kemp Gabrielle Belz Foundation Lecturer Anne La Flamme Burnet Oration Francis Carbone Doherty Medallist Kerry Hilligan 🏆 ASI AWARDS Breakthrough Immunology Award Genevieve Martin Anneliese Ashhurst Margaret Baird Women in Immunology Award Debbie Watson Women's Initiative Travel Award Mitra Ashayeripanah Jacques Miller Senior Travel Award Diana Hansen Gordon Ada Travel Award Emma Grant Marios Koutsakos Georgia Atkin-Smith Sabrina Sofia Burgener Career Advancement Award - Postgraduate Anyang Zhao Claire Emson James Dosser Rathna Ravichandran Soumen Sadhu Xiaoyue Zhang Zhengyu Ge Career Advancement Award - Postdoctoral  Angli Xue Khalida Perveen Career Advancement Award - Mid Career Sabrina Sofia Burgener Cheers-Buchan Education ...
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Monday December 22, 2025

ASI 2026 Canberra Nov 30th - Dec 4th 2026 Please save the date for our next ASI Annual Scientific Meeting Click here for more info
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Wednesday December 10, 2025

Following our ASI AGM on the Dec 3rd 2025, we would like to thank our Outgoing Councillors and congratulate our Incoming Councillors.  Outgoing Councillors Please join us in thanking our Outgoing Councillors to whom we are indebted for their dedication, time and efforts, in making ASI a wonderful society to be a part of. ⭐ Gabrielle Belz, Past President ⭐ Louise Rowntree, VIC-TAS Branch Councillor (1st Term expiring) ⭐ Inken Kelch, NZ Branch Councillor ⭐ Severine Navarro, QLD Branch Councillor ⭐ Caleb Dawson, Day of Immunology Coordinator Incoming Councillors Please ...
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Tuesday December 09, 2025

Congratulations to Jess Borger Cheers-Buchan Education Awardee   We warmly congratulate Jess Borger winner of the ASI Cheers-Buchan Education Award --   Moving Beyond the Pipeline: Redefining Success in STEMM This year’s Australian Society for Medical Research (ASMR) conference in Brisbane, provided a dynamic platform to discuss how we can build more inclusive, authentic and sustainable careers in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medicine (STEMM). I had the privilege of contributing through three connected initiatives — presenting a poster on the Beyond the Pipeline advocacy and book project, leading ...
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Tuesday December 09, 2025

Congratulations to Marios Koutsakos ASI Travel Awardee   We warmly congratulate Marios Koutsakos winner of the ASI Travel Award (Ada category) -- I am a senior research fellow in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne, at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity in Melbourne. I lead a research program focused on understanding how the immune system recognises antigenically evolving viruses and how such viruses evolve. I am particularly interested in influenza viruses, and my research aims to inform the development of broadly ...
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Tuesday December 09, 2025

Congratulations to Huimeng Wang ASI Travel Awardee   We warmly congratulate Huimeng Wang winner of the ASI Travel Award (Postdoctoral Category) --   I am a postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Alexandra Corbett’s laboratory at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, the University of Melbourne. My research focuses on mucosal-associated invariant T (MAIT) cells, a specialised subset of T cells that represent the most abundant human T cell population responding to microbes and are enriched in barrier tissues. Throughout my career, I have led a research program ...
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Friday December 05, 2025

Congratulations to Adam Nelson ASI Travel Awardee (Postgraduate category)   We warmly congratulate Adam Nelson winner of the ASI Travel Award (Postgraduate Category) --   I am a final year PhD candidate in the McCluskey lab at The University of Melbourne’s Peter Doherty Institute. I was thrilled to receive the ASI postgraduate travel award that allowed me to attend two international conferences, as well as meet with academics from around the world. My PhD focuses on the MHC class I related protein I, MR1, which is known for its ...
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Wednesday December 03, 2025

Congratulations to Angli Xue ASI Travel Awardee   We warmly congratulate Angli Xue winner of the ASI Travel Award (Postdoctoral Category) --   I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research and UNSW Sydney. I was thrilled to receive the 2025 ASI Postdoctoral Travel Award, which supported me to present my research at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics in Boston, USA. My current research is focused on understanding the genetic regulation at the single-cell level and how genetic variations affect ...
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Friday November 21, 2025

Congratulations to Xiaoxiao Jia ASI Postdoctoral Travel Awardee   We warmly congratulate Xiaoxiao Jia winner of the ASI Postdoctoral Travel Award --   I completed my PhD in the University of Melbourne and Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, and I am currently a postdoc researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing), where I lead a project on virus–host interactions and immune dysregulation during severe respiratory infections. Over the past 12 years, I have dedicated my research career to understanding influenza virus immunopathology and the mechanisms ...
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Thursday November 20, 2025

Congratulations to Brigette Duckworth ASI Postdoctoral Travel Awardee   We warmly congratulate Brigette Duckworth winner of the ASI Postdoctoral Travel Award --   I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI) in the laboratory of A/Prof. Joanna Groom. My research focuses on the generation and maintenance of long-lived CD8+ T cell memory within lymph nodes.  I completed my PhD in 2024 in the Groom Lab at WEHI, under the supervision of A/Prof. Joanna Groom and Professor Gabrielle Belz. During my PhD ...
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Thursday November 20, 2025

Congratulations to Tomothy Patton ASI Postdoctoral Travel Awardee   We warmly congratulate Timothy Patton winner of the ASI Postdoctoral Travel Award --   I completed my PhD in 2019, with my thesis examining the innate immune recognition of multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus by dendritic cells, under the supervision of Associate Professor Meredith O’Keeffe. Following a short period in industry, I began my post-doc in the laboratory of Professor Alexandra Corbett at the Doherty Institute where I have remained for the past five years.  In my current role, I lead a ...
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Wednesday November 19, 2025

Congratulations to Lennard Dalit ASI Career Advancement Postgraduate Awardee   We warmly congratulate Lennard Dalit winner of the ASI Career Advancement Postgraduate Award --   I am honoured and very grateful to have received the ASI Postgraduate Career Advancement Award (2023) to support me in the development of my scientific career. I completed my PhD in 2024 in Assoc. Prof Joanna Groom’s lab at Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI) where my research investigated germinal centre biology with a particular focus on T follicular helper ...
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Wednesday November 19, 2025

Congratulations to Alessia Hysa ASI Postgraduate Travel Awardee   We warmly congratulate Alessia Hysa winner of the ASI Postgraduate Travel Award --   I began the third year of my PhD sharing ideas and connecting with international colleagues by receiving the ASI Postgraduate Travel Award. Over ten days, I found myself in the idyllic city of Heidelberg (Germany) attending the ‘BioMalPar XXI Conference’ and the lively city of Barcelona (Spain) attending the ‘Malaria Gordon Research Conference’. I am a PhD candidate working in the Malaria Immunity and Vaccines Group ...
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Wednesday November 05, 2025

2025 ASI AGM  Dear ASI member, Notice is hereby given that the 2025 Annual General Meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Society for Immunology Inc. will be held as follows:  Date: Wed Dec 3rd, 2025 Time: 12:40pm for a 12:50pm (AWST) start Location:  ASI Annual Scientific Meeting 2025, Perth (see conference program for room no.) Invitation to all 2025 Members All current 2025 members are invited to attend. There is no deadline and no need to register in advance.  Please just turn up on the day if you hold a current ASI membership.  Look out for ...
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Wednesday November 05, 2025

  Hear from our 2025 IUIS Rising Stars   This year the cohort of 15 early career researchers named as 2025 International Union of Immunological Societies (IUIS) Rising Stars included four ASI members: ⭐ Deborah Burnett (University of New South Wales) ⭐ Kerry Hilligan (Malaghan Institute of Medical Research) ⭐ Andy (Xin) Gao (Monash University, formerly John Curtin School of Medical Research) ⭐ Helen McGuire (The University of Sydney)  They attended the 19th International Congress of Immunology held in Vienna, Austria in August 2025. This prestigious meeting is organised by ...
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Tuesday November 04, 2025

Congratulations to Kerry Sandgren ASI Travel Awardee (Gordon Ada)   We warmly congratulate Kerrie Sandgren winner of the ASI Travel Award (Ada Category) --   I was delighted to receive the 2024 Gordon Ada Travel award to support mid-career researchers. With this award I travelled to Washington DC, USA, in June 2025 where I spoke about my work at the Keystone Vaccinology: Horizons Across Disease Demography and Technology meeting and also at the Vaccine Research Center (VRC) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). I am a vaccine researcher ...
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Monday November 03, 2025

Congratulations to Junli Nie ASI Travel Awardee (Postgraduate)   We warmly congratulate Junli Nie winner of the ASI Travel Award (Postgraduate Category) --   I am a final-year PhD student at the Walter and Eliza Hall institute of Medical Research, the University of Melbourne, supervised by Prof. Stephen Nutt, Prof. Gordon Smyth, and Dr. Julie Tellier. My PhD project focuses on how transcription factor proteins impact the regulation of genes which encode proteins in B cells. I employ methods like flow cytometry, ATACseq, and CUT&Tag to identify important transcription factors ...
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Saturday November 01, 2025

Congratulations to Anita Kral ASI Travel Awardee (Postgraduate)   We warmly congratulate Anita Kral winner of the ASI Travel Award (Postgraduate Category) --   As part of my ASI-funded travels, I was very fortunate to visit Prof. Cecilia Johansson and Prof. Clare Lloyd from the National Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College London. Prof. Johansson kindly took me on a tour of the research facilities and arranged one-on-one meetings with other Australian expatriates for me to gain insights into their experiences moving abroad. In addition to the laboratory ...
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Monday October 27, 2025

Congratulations to Cynthia Turnbull ASI Travel Awardee (Postdoctoral)   We warmly congratulate Cynthia Turnbull winner of the ASI Travel Award (Postdoctoral Category) --   My name is Cynthia Turnbull, and I am a post-doctoral scientist interested in the role of genetic modifiers of the immune system which, when altered, influence innate and adaptive immune cell function, immune dysregulation and disease development. During my PhD with Professor Carola Vinuesa and Dr Pablo F Canete at the John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, I identified a novel ...
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Thursday October 23, 2025

Congratulations to Shouya Feng, ASI Travel Awardee (Postdoctoral)   We warmly congratulate Shouya Feng winner of the ASI Travel Award (Postdoctoral Category) -- I am a postdoctoral scientist in the Innate Immune and Autoinflammatory Disease Laboratory at the Hudson Institute of Medical Research, under the supervision of Professor Seth Masters. I completed my PhD in 2023 with Professor Si Ming Man at the John Curtin School of Medical Research, the Australian National University. My current research focuses on understanding the role of inflammasomes in autoinflammatory syndromes. Specifically, I ...
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