Photo of the week: El-Osta group

2017 El-Osta group. L-R: Dr Jun Okabe, Mr Harikrishnan Kaipananickal, Dr Mark Ziemann, Mr Antony Kaspi, Ms Hanah Rodriguez, Dr Ishant Khurana, Dr Gulcan Sarila, Mr Sameer Jadaan, Prof Sam El-Osta, Dr Haloom Rafehi, Mr Scott Maxwell, Ms Nazanin Karimnia. See link.
Recent highlights are Gulcan Sarila's completion of her PhD and the Tel-Aviv/Monash new collaboration.

What's on at CCS 12-16 June 2017

Dr Isaak Quast, Research Fellow
Tarlinton group, presents 15 June

Central Clinical School (CCS) has regular seminar series and postgraduate presentations. Event notices are posted on the CCS Events calendar. 
CCS staff and students can see details of both public and local events (including professional development courses, trade fairs and Graduate Research Student calendars) and deadlines, at the CCS intranet's Announcements page

See CCS seminar index: www.med.monash.edu.au/cecs/events/seminars.html

What's on at CCS 12-16 June 2017

Mon	12/06/2017	►	all day	Queen's Birthday public holiday
Tue	13/06/2017	►	16:00	Department of Diabetes student journal club
Wed	14/06/2017	►	11:30	Mid-Year Honours Final Research Seminar
		►	11:30	Immunology Seminar: Stephanie Gras (Monash Clayton)
Thur	15/06/2017	►	11:30	Cutting Edge Journal Club: Isaak Quast
		►	12:00	The Alfred Grand Round: Legal Counsel David Ruschena and a panel who will discuss the “Clinical, Legal and Social Issues of Family Violence”

Save the date

• Tue 27/06/2017: CCS 3MT heat 
• Thu 13/07/2017: AMREP Bachelor of Medical Science (Honours) information evening
• Mon 31/07/2017: Translational Research symposium: RSVP

CCS Publications update: 3-9 June 2017

Jane group has a recent publication on
normal red cell production and anaemia
See reference.

Recent publications for Central Clinical School affiliated authors in the departments of Australian Centre for Blood Diseases (ACBD),  Infectious Diseases, Medicine and Melbourne Sexual Health Centre (MSHC).

Win for “Citizen Science”: A/Prof Elliott awarded Commonwealth Health Minister’s Award

Associate Professor Julian Elliott

Congratulations to A/Prof Julian Elliott, who was awarded the prestigious Commonwealth Health Minister’s Award for Excellence in Health and Medical Research 2017 at a ceremony in Melbourne on Thursday night. The medal is bestowed annually to the top-ranked Career Development Fellowship applicant through the National Health and Medical Research Council.

Taking a lateral approach to curing sleep apnea

Sleeping on your side helps reduce apnea events. Image: Getty

by Anne Crawford

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a common yet serious disorder in which obstruction of the throat (upper airway) causes breathing to repeatedly stop and start, resulting in fragmented sleep, sleep deprivation, daytime tiredness and leaving OSA patients liable to a number of health risks.

Curiously, although obesity is the strongest risk factor for developing OSA, weight loss – while it can improve the severity of OSA – rarely cures it.

Translational Research Symposium Speaker Spotlight - Professor Terence O'Brien

Professor Terence O'Brien

Monash University's 3rd annual Translational Research Symposium is being hosted by its three metropolitan clinical schools on 31 July 2017. The symposium will host a diverse group of medical researchers presenting their work into translational research. RSVP here.

Professor Terence O'Brien is from the Department of Medicine, The Royal Melbourne and Western Hospital, at The University of Melbourne.

Congratulations to Gulcan Sarila on her PhD!

Congratulations to Gulcan Sarila on the completion of her PhD! Gulcan's thesis title is, "Role of histone methyltransferase Set7 in cardiac gene regulation and mitochondrial function”, and she was supervised by Professor Sam El-Osta and Dr Jun Okabe. Gulcan is continuing to work with Sam El-Osta as a postdoctoral research fellow.

See more about the group's research at:
www.med.monash.edu/cecs/diabetes/research/el-osta-group.html

Congratulations to "Deadeye" Gavin Horrigan!

Gavin Horrigan with his cornucopia
of prizes from a shooting competition

AMREP Precinct Manager Gavin Horrigan had a huge day shooting at Ararat on Saturday 3 June. He didn’t miss a single target in three events totalling seventy (70) targets!