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Friday August 02, 2019

ASI is committed to promoting gender equity and diversity at our annual meetings. Each year, the Local Organising Committees of our annual meetings endeavour toward achieving gender parity in the speaker selection.  We're proud of what we've achieved - click here to check out the gender balance amongst our invited speakers and chairs for the last couple of years.  As part of our commitment to promoting gender equity and diversity, ASI Women’s Initiative offer 4 Travel Awards (up to AUD1000 each) to facilitate the attendance ...
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Thursday August 01, 2019

The ASI Women's Initiative is jam-packed full of membership benefits, including the inaugural Margaret Baird Women in Immunology Lectureship Award that we recently launched, Travel Awards, a Mentor-Mentee Program, and the Women Speakers Database.    What is the purpose of the ASI Women Speakers Database? A cornerstone of the ASI Women’s Initiative is the Women Speakers Database.   It is a valuable resource that has been developed for a number of different purposes, to aid: The immunological community looking for speakers, session chairs and panel ...
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Friday July 19, 2019

The Jared Purton – ASI award seeks to recognise an Early to Mid - Career Researcher with the aim to further advance their research at a critical point in their career. The prize is currently worth $5000 with a runners up prize of $3000. The use of the prize money is determined by the awardee but must directly support their research. Some examples include, but are not limited to: provision of child care while attending a conference; travel support to ...
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Thursday July 11, 2019

ICB is looking for exciting and eye-catching images to use for its 2020 cover. We are offering the opportunity for your image to be the one selected for 2020. The winning entry will also receive a $500 prize.* To submit your winning image, please email your entry to [email protected] and include “ICB Cover” in the subject line. The closing date is 31st August 2019.  Helpful advice: We need high resolution images, but if your file size is too large to send by e-mail, ...
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Friday June 28, 2019

Our new website has launched! It brings many significant improvements, including: Useful information is now contained within your member profile! You'll be able to look this up in a matter of seconds.  We are frequently asked: "What is my ASI member number?" "Am I a financial member?" "Am I eligible to apply for this amazing ASI award?" Payments received from now on will generate tax invoices that can be downloaded later Award Status Tracking- giving you greater confidence that we have received your award application, plus the ability ...
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Friday June 21, 2019

Announcing the 2018 Impact Factor for Clinical & Translational Immunology... It's a momentous time in history when your society's journal receives it's first ever Impact Factor. We are incredibly excited to announce the 2018 Impact Factor for Clinical & Translational Immunology is 7.271! This fantastic Impact Factor places our journal 22/158 in the Immunology category, and well above other immunology journals such as Journal of Clinical Immunology (4.128), Oncoimmunology(5.333), Clinical and Experimental Allergy (4.741), European Journal of Immunology (4.695), and the Journal of ...
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Thursday June 20, 2019

Please click here to visit our Newsletter page and download your copy of the June 2019 ASI Newsletter.
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Friday June 14, 2019

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Tuesday April 30, 2019

The GTAC Day of Immunology Secondary School Workshops in Ballarat at Federation University were featured on WIN news. Click link below to watch footage. ASI member and past Secretary Prof Stuart Berzins (Federation University) key speaker was interviewed. Click here for more.
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Tuesday April 30, 2019

Holly Groome from the Robinson Research Institute and University of Adelaide was interviewed by David Bevan. Click here to listen.
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Sunday April 28, 2019

Prof Mimi Tang from MCRI will be discussing her research with Dr Shane and the team on RRR Einstein A Go-Go for International Day of Immunology. Click here to listen.
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Tuesday April 16, 2019

Are you interested in engaging the public with your knowledge of immunology? Why not sign up to be a volunteer organiser of a Day of Immunology event in 2019. Please contact your ASI Branch to join the local organising committee. Remember you need to be a financial member to participate, so renew your membership today! For more information contact Dr Gabriela Khoury, Day of Immunology Coordinator.
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Monday April 01, 2019

Registration and Abstract Submission is now open for the 2019 NZ Branch Meeting in Wellington. We have an excellent line up of invited speakers including: Professor Ruth Ganss             Vascular Biology and Stromal Targeting Professor Axel Kallies             Regulation of Lymphocyte Differentiation Dr Joanna Groom                    Mechanisms of Immune Diversity Dr Rob Weinkove                    CAR-T cell Therapy  Registration deadline: 30th April 2019 Click here to register now.
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Monday March 18, 2019

Is there an Immunologist you would like to meet? A key benefit to being an ASI member is the opportunity to nominate a prominent international Immunologist whom you'd like to meet and possibly collaborate with. There are 2 opportunities every year for ASI members to nominate international speakers to visit Australia and New Zealand, funded by ASI. The first 2019 nomination round closes March 29th 2019. The second 2019 nomination round will open on September 2nd and close September 27th 2019. For time and venue details of ...
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