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Latest News
Tuesday June 16, 2020
The DGfI - ASI 4th Joint Workshop in September 2021
The Australian and New Zealand, and the German Societies for Immunology (ASI and DGfI) are pleased to announce the fourth joint DGfI-ASI workshop to be held as a satellite meeting attached to the European Congress of Immunology in September 2021 Belgrade. The workshop will run over two nights (before or after ECI) and will be held in a venue TBA in Germany.
Don't miss this great opportunity
Approximately 15-20 ASI members will travel to Germany to participate in ...
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Monday June 15, 2020
Introducing the new ASI Education Award
Application round: 15th June - 13th July 2020
Today, we are pleased to announce we are adding a brand new award to the list of ASI Awards for ASI members to apply for!
We are now accepting applications to the inaugural ASI Education Award, so be sure to apply.
Purpose
Brand new in 2020, this award has been created in alignment with our society's mission to 'advance the science and education of Immunology'.
The ASI Education Award aims to recognise ...
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Sunday June 14, 2020
Our next ASI Fireside Chat is on "Burning questions and fairy tales in Immunology"
On Thursday 18th June, we will be hosting our FREE online session with Prof. Anne La Flamme and A/Prof. Damon Tumes.
Please help us reach the general public
We ask a big favour of you please - to let your family and friends know about these free sessions.
We would love any help to raise awareness of our new event series!
We also welcome ASI members to register - it's a ...
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Friday June 12, 2020
Melbourne is hosting ASI 2021
The 49th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Society for Immunology (ASI2021) will be held in Melbourne from 30th November to 3rd December 2021. We are putting together an exciting scientific program and as always, a priority is to provide young immunologists with the best opportunities to present their research, update their scientific knowledge and to establish contacts with other immunologists from around Australia, New Zealand and the rest of the world.
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Wednesday June 10, 2020
Did you know?
As a current ASI member,
you have free access to Immunology & Cell Biology
Yes, that's right, all ASI members have FREE access to Immunology & Cell Biology!
This is another benefit you have as an ASI member so be sure to keep your membership up-to-date.
Simply access all ICB articles by heading to the ICB page, scrolling down, and clicking the green button "ICB Access (members login)".
Log in to check if you are a 2020 member
Check out the latest ICB ...
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Thursday May 28, 2020
Our new webpage for the general public
It's such a great time to launch our public outreach initiatives, while Immunology has the global spotlight! We endeavour to increase public access to solid, evidence-based information by creating a new section on our website dedicated to the non-scientific public.
This new page has been created especially for the family and friends of ASI Members and the general non-scientific community who simply enjoy learning more about Immunology, directly from Immunologists.
What's on the page?
"Ask an Immunologist" ...
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Tuesday May 12, 2020
Our new event series: ASI Fireside Chats
Today we launch our new ongoing event series, perfectly tailored toward the general community, with no scientific background.
It's a free Q&A session tailored toward the non-scientific public who simply want reliable, accurate information. This is a great way for the public to cut through the chatter, ask their burning question, and receive a scientific, evidence-based answer in plain language.
Our first session is "Can we become immune to COVID-19?"
On Tuesday 19th May, we will be ...
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Tuesday May 05, 2020
Dear ASI member,
The ASI Constitution now contains some important new rules that may affect your membership.
To simplify our membership requirements, the most recent ASI AGM introduced a renewal deadline of June 30th.
After this date, any members who have not yet renewed will no longer be an ASI member, and therefore cease to have membership benefits, including access to member-only content on our website.
If you haven't already, please endeavour to pay your membership renewal fee now (or before June 30th 2020) to ...
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Friday April 24, 2020
Anne Kelso
Tea or coffee?
Coffee! Black for breakfast and a flat white mid-morning and all is right with the world.
What is your favourite dessert?
Anything with chocolate, one of the essential food groups that deserves its own chapter in NHMRC’s Australian Dietary Guidelines.
As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up?
Scientist, actually. My best friend in primary school wanted to be a doctor (she is), I wanted to be a scientist and together we were going to cure ...
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Wednesday April 22, 2020
The IUIS is collaborating with Frontiers by launching a series of weekly, expert commentaries and scientific webinars to accelerate the development of novel diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines.
Over 700 immunologists joined the last webinar hosted by Rino Rappuoli. In case you missed it, watch it on demand: iuis.org/webinars
IUIS invite you to join the next live webinars by:
Giuseppe Ippolito on April 24
Eleanor Fish on April 27.
Register now and get new perspectives on COVID-19!
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Wednesday April 22, 2020
The ASI Special Initiatives Fund
We recently launched the ASI Special Initiatives Fund - a unique opportunity where you can help us move ASI into the future and advance our discipline.
In 2017 we committed AUD 200 000 toward the Special Initiatives Fund, and invited ideas for novel initiatives from ASI members.
Today we invite ASI members to send in their novel ideas for the next Special Initiatives Funding Round.
Purpose
New initiatives should be within the scope of the society and to the benefit of ...
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Friday April 17, 2020
Connecting ECR's and students
We know you'll be missing student and ECR functions this year, whether it be at your local branch meeting or at our annual meeting. So, as the next best thing we've established an online support network just for ECR's and students.
Join the ASI Support Network
Join the network. Meet other ECR's and students. Chat about everything and nothing.
Sound like exactly what you need right now? If so, register now, and have a chat with new (or old) friends.
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Thursday April 16, 2020
Call for ASI members to speak at FIMSA 2021
FIMSA 2021 will take place in Busan, Korea, Oct 31- Nov 3, 2021.
FIMSA has invited ASI to participate by providing a list of 5 speakers, from which the FIMSA Organising Committee will select.
We now invite Expressions of Interest from members who wish to be on the recommended list we will provide to FIMSA.
The successful nominees will deliver a presentation at the meeting and will have their economy class airfare, registration and accommodation paid ...
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Friday April 10, 2020
ASI Members now have special access to Digital Resources
Not that you need another reason to be an ASI Member... But, today we launch our new initiative - ASI Digital Resources!
This is the start of a great collection of useful things to know, to survive in scientific research. They have been created by recording some of the postgraduate talks from ASI 2019 Adelaide - so if you missed them, here's your chance to brush up on these skills!
Creating this new ASI initiative would ...
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Thursday April 09, 2020
ASMR wishes to pass on the following message to ASI members.
Dear Affiliate Members,
The current pandemic is changing significant aspects of our life and work which will have a profound impact for years to come. Our thoughts are with those who are affected worldwide and our health and medical colleagues working tirelessly on the front-line.
Today, we have released a call to government (download here) asking for a one-off crisis intervention of $400M to the NHMRC to enable a 6-month extension to ...
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Monday March 30, 2020
Message from ASI President to membership
Dear ASI Members,
It is with great sadness that we inform our members of the passing of Professor Ian Mackay at the age of 98.
Professor Mackay was an ASI Honorary Life Member and is widely recognised as a pioneering Australian immunologist in the field of autoimmune disease.
With much gratitude, we would like to thank Len Harrison, WEHI, for the obituary below.
Ngā mihi
John Fraser, ASI President
Obituary written by Leonard Harrison, WEHI
It was with great sadness that we learnt of ...
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Sunday March 29, 2020
Dear ASI Members,
We received a warm letter of support from Hiroshi Kiyono, Chairman of the Executive Board, Japanese Society for Immunology. They extend a generous offer of support to researchers and welcome your ideas on how JSI can help ASI members. We encourage you to read their lovely letter by clicking here, and feel free to contact us with any comments.
Take care,
ASI
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Monday March 23, 2020
Please click here to visit our Newsletter page and download your copy of the March 2020 ASI Newsletter.
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Thursday March 19, 2020
Following the ASI Executive Meeting held on 18/3/20, we would like to advise ASI Members of the following changes implemented in response to current global events.
EVENTS
Annual Scientific Meeting: ASI NZ 2020 regretfully will be cancelled and rescheduled for 2022.
We have some very exciting celebrations planned for our next few meetings.
The new meeting rotation is as follows:
2020 NZ - rescheduled to 2022
2021 VIC (25th anniversary of Peter Doherty's Nobel Prize)
2022 NZ (50th anniversary of ASI Annual Scientific Meetings)
2023 NSW (100th anniversary ...
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Saturday March 14, 2020
Immunology & Cell Biology
DEPUTY EDITOR
applications are now invited
Immunology & Cell Biology is seeking applicants for the position of Deputy Editor to support the ICB Editorial Team.
The primary responsibility of the Deputy Editor is to support the Editor-in-Chief in maintaining and building ICB as a definitive source of primary immunology research. The Deputy Editor will be part of an Editorial Team consisting of the Editor-in-Chief, three other Deputy Editors, two News & Commentary Editors, an Associate Editor and an Editorial Assistant. She or ...
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