Video of the week: Gala Poster Presentation for Immunology students

The Department of Immunology and Pathology inaugural Gala Poster Presentation function was a great success, with 30 different group of students participating. The event was coordinated by Professor Robyn Slattery in conjunction with Associate Professor Colin Jevons, Acting Associate Dean, Learning and Teaching, Monash Business School, as the aim of the event was to feature the science and encourage the students to communicate effectively. See more:

• Video: https://youtu.be/IEl3teHQLFE
• www.monash.edu/medicine/ccs/immunology

What's on at CCS 27 Nov - 1 Dec 2017



Erica Kim is presenting this
week. She won the CCS post-
graduate symposium poster
presentation

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 27 Nov - 1 Dec 2017

Tue	28/11/2017	►	12:00	PhD pre-submission milestone: Erica Kim
Wed	29/11/2017	►	10:30	Burnet Institute: Microbiome in Sexual, Maternal and Child Health Symposium

No Immunology seminars 29 & 30 Nov because of ASI meetings. They resume the following week, Weds 6 Dec with Lynette Beattie.

Recent CCS publications: 18-24 November 2017

L-R: Profs Mark Cooper and Merlin Thomas are co-authors on
a paper on AAA, ACE2 and resveratrol - find out more
 

Recent publications for Central Clinical School affiliated authors in the following departments. Note, browse down this entry for complete publications list. Linked headings for each section are to the departments' home pages.

• Australian Centre for Blood Diseases (ACBD)
• Diabetes
• Gastroenterology
• Immunology and Pathology
• Infectious Diseases
• Melbourne Sexual Health Centre (MSHC)
• Neuroscience

Scientists find key to miscarriages in blood clotting disorder

Prof Harshal Nandurkar and Dr Anushka
Samudra are respectively last and first authors
on the paper on APS and miscarriage

by Anne Crawford

Monash University researchers have potentially shed light on why women with the rare autoimmune disorder Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) are prone to successive pregnancy losses.

APS causes abnormal blood clots in the arteries or veins along with the risks that go with clotting, including stroke and Deep Vein Thrombosis. For pregnant women the effects of the disorder can be devastating, causing about half of them to be at risk of sequential miscarriages, spontaneous abortions or premature births.

Congratulations to Prof Kit Fairley on ASHA award!

Professor Christopher Fairley (right) receiving
his ASHA award for distinguished services

Congratulations to Professor Christopher (Kit) Fairley, Director of the Melbourne Sexual Health Centre (MSHC), who has won the Australasian Sexual Health Alliance (ASHA) Distinguished Services to Sexual Health Award.

The ASHA Distinguished Services to Sexual Health Award recognises a distinguished visionary leader who has made outstanding contribution to the field of sexual health both nationally and internationally.

Congratutions to Dr Eric Chow on his many recent awards!!

Dr Eric Chow with his VC award
for ECR research excellence

Only three years post-PhD, Dr Eric Chow has launched an exceptional upward career trajectory in epidemiology and the control of sexually transmitted diseases. He has received a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Early Career Research Fellowship and two recent project grants (one from the NHMRC and the other from industry).

Most recently, Eric was awarded:

• 2017 Vice-Chancellor's award for Excellence in Research by an Early Career Researcher
• 2017 Australasian Sexual Health Alliance (ASHA) award*
• 2017 AMREP EMCR Public Health Early Career Research Best Paper award**
• 2017 Victorian Young Tall Poppy Scientist of the year award
• 2017 Early Career Researcher Fellows Publication Prize
• 2017 Dean's award for Excellence in Research (Early Career)

Congratulations to our recent PhD graduates!

Top (L-R): Ms Eleanor Jones, Mr Man Kit Lee, Mr Charles Milne
Bottom (L-R): Ms Nicola Sandler, Miss Yaping Chen, Mr Craig McKenzie

Congratulations to our recent PhD graduates and good luck in your future endeavours!

Congratulations to CCS's 10th annual graduate research symposium winners!

L-R: Erica Kim, Matthew Snelson, Ashlee Conway, Maria Selvadurai, Minhee Halemba, Paul Gill

The Central Clinical School's (CCS) 10th annual Graduate Research Symposium ran last Friday 17 November. Graduate research students from across CCS presented their research in the biggest student-run event of the year. We also had fun sessions where supervisors got to showcase their communication skills in the popular "Explain My Graph" and "No-Bell" competitions.