Faculty 3MT Week starts now: 3-10 July - voting closes 11 am Fri 10 July

Faculty 3MT Week is on! Friday 3 July - 11am Friday 10 July. Please watch and vote for your favourite!

Our people's choice (of course) is Alex Dimitropoulos, in Central Clinical School's Department of Diabetes, with her topic, "A spoon full of GLO makes the years go down". What's not to like about that?
See:

• Alex's video
• All videos sites.google.com/monash.edu/mnhsgrresources/3mt
• People's vote link

Congratulations to our 3MT heat participants!

Alex Dimitropoulos not selling Glyoxalase anti-ageing snake oil!

The Central Clinical School 3MT heat went very well, with a good Zoom turnout to support the CCS 3 Minute Thesis event.

A very big congratulations to our 2020 CCS 3MT winners!

First place: Ms Alexandra Dimitropoulos (Diabetes). Alex will go on to the Faculty heat, the winner of which will be announced 14 July. Heats will take place from 3-10 July, and links to view videos and vote to be advised.
Second place: Mr Rishabh Sharma (Neuroscience)
People's choice award: Ms Nurul Zainal Abidin (ACBD)

Many thanks to CCS Graduate Research Coordinators, Profs Nicola Harris and Helmut Butzkueven, judges Profs Steve Jane, Helmut Butzkueven and Ms Julia Veitch (CCS Communications Manager), and our Graduate Research Senior Student Services Officer, Ms Sharmila Ramesh, who coordinated the event.

3MT Comp Winners!

CCS Competition winner Lakshanie Wickramasinghe

The School's annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition took place here on May 27, pitting seven brave young researchers against each other in a bid to explain their research in plain English, and in only three minutes. The competition is a wonderful opportunity to practice sharing complex but vital research with a lay audience.

Three Minute Thesis (3MT Wildcard) 19 July

This Wildcard round will see People's Choice winners of each faculty battle it out to win the final spot at the Monash University Three Minute Thesis final! Come and support your faculty, hear about the exciting research your peers and students are involved in, win audience prizes, and enjoy free lunch. Register to attend the 3MT Wildcard.

Date: Thursday 19 July 2018
Time: 11.30am - 1.30pm
Venue: Level 4, New Horizons, 20 Research Way, Clayton

Registrations open for 2018 3MT competition!

2017's CCS PhD student participants in the 3MT competition. See more

Registration for the 2018 3MT Three Minute Thesis Competition is now open. ​Kindly register and participate in this fantastic event!

Photo of the week: CCS 3MT heat participants

2017 Central Clinical School Three Minute Thesis (3MT) participants. L-R: Mr Nikolce Kocovski, Ms Emily King, Mr Matthew Snelson, Ms Mahtab Parvaresh, Mr Amlan Chakraborty, Ms Amy Wilson, Ms Jacqueline Riddiford and CCS postgraduate convenor Professor Rob Medcalf. See detail of their topics at www.med.monash.edu.au/cecs/education/hdr-3mt-2017.html

Congratulations to Matthew Snelson, Department of Diabetes, who won both critical and popular votes with his presentation on the effects of dietary advanced glycation endproducts on gut homeostasis and chronic kidney disease. He will go on to compete in the Faculty finals 13 July 2017, 1.30 - 3.30 pm, S3 Lecture Theatre, 16 Rainforest Walk, Monash University, Clayton campus. RSVP here or watch via video link from Alfred Centre Level 5 Lecture Theatre. Good luck Matthew!

Photo of the week: The heat is on for our CCS 3MT speakers!

2016's CCS Three Minute Thesis contestants: L-R Erica Kim (Medicine), Caroline Tuck (Gastroenterology), Jessica Anania (Burnet), Aron Hill (MAPrc), Liriye Kurtovic (Burnet), Riya Palchaudhuri (Burnet), Paddy Dempsey (Baker, and winner, see his video), Marina Iacovou (Gastroenterology), Elizabeth Thomas (MAPrc).

This year's heat is next Tuesday, 27 June 2017. All welcome!

2017 CCS 3MT competition details - see details of this year's contestants

• Date: Tuesday 27 June 2017
• Time: 2.00 - 3.00 pm
• Venue: Lecture Theatre, Level 5, Alfred Centre
• No RSVP required, all welcome.

3MT CCS heat is on! Tue 27 Jun - all welcome

Aron Hill in the 2016 CCS heat: video

Support our PhD students by coming along to the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) heat for Central Clinical School on Tuesday 27 June 2017! The 3MT event was established in 2008 by University of Queensland and has become international, as it is a very popular and effective showcase for PhD students to make their often highly technical research accessible for a lay audience.

Details

• Venue: Lecture theatre, level 5, Alfred Centre
• Date: Tuesday 27 June 2017
• Time: 2-3 pm
• All welcome! The audience also gets to vote, and a prize is awarded to the People's Choice winner
• See CCS's 2016 3MT video playlist

This year's competing CCS students

Ms Emily King
Supervisors: Dr Brian Drew, Dr Darren Henstridge, Dr Anna Calkin
Thesis title: Does skeletal muscle mitochondrial dysfunction cause insulin resistance?
Department: Baker Institute

Ms Mahtab Parvaresh
Supervisors: Dr Daniel Andrews, Prof Steven Gerondakis
Thesis title: The role of NFKB molecules in NK cell development
Department: Immunology and Pathology

 

Mr Matthew Snelson
Supervisors: A/Prof Melinda Coughlan, Prof Mark Cooper, Dr Sih Min Tan
Thesis title: The effects of dietary advanced glycation endproducts on gut homeostasis and chronic kidney disease
Department: Diabetes

 

Ms Jacqueline Riddiford
Supervisors: Dr Caroline Gurvich, A/Prof Peter Enticott A/Prof Joanne Fielding
Thesis title: Social functioning and visual processing in autism spectrum disorder
Department: Monash Alfred Psychiatry research centre

Mr Nikolce Kocovski
Supervisors: Prof David Tarlinton, Dr Steven Rockman, Prof Andrew Lew.
Thesis title: Therapeutic monoclonal antibodies to snake venom
Department: Immunology and Pathology

Mr Amlan Chakraborty
Supervisors: Prof Magdalena Plebanski, Prof Cordelia Selomulya, Dr Simon Royce, Dr Jennifer Boer.
Thesis title: Immunomodulatory role of functionalized nanoparticles on antigen presenting cells
Department: Immunology and Pathology

Ms Amy Wilson
Supervisors: Prof Magdalena Plebanski, Dr Andrew Stephens
Thesis title: Improving in vivo detection methods and immunomodulatory therapies for the treatment of high-grade serous ovarian cancers
Department: Immunology and Pathology

31 May deadline for registering in 3MT competition!

2016 CCS heat winner, Paddy Dempsey. Video 2:59

Registrations for the 2017 3MT Three Minute Thesis Competition are now open. Graduate research students are encouraged to register and participate in this fantastic event! Registration closes on Wednesday 31 May 2017

MNHS Research Week: Innovation in Research 15-19 Aug 2016

MNHS Research Week: Innovation in Research

The Faculty is very pleased to announce MNHS Research Week being held 15-19 August 2016. An exciting series of FREE seminars and workshops are organised over the week, covering a range of topics for all researchers and graduate research students. Selected events are listed below. Click on the links below to register and keep watching our Research Week page for the latest updates.

2016 3MT CCS heat happening 11 Aug 2016 - All welcome!

Central Clinical School HDR students regularly compete in the "Three Minute Thesis" competition (3MT), offered in every Australian university. The CCS 3 Minute Thesis Competition is an opportunity for HDR students to convey the relevance and importance of their research in just 3 minutes. It is an excellent opportunity to achieve a higher profile for research students and their work. The Monash 3MT finalist will then be invited to represent Monash University at the Asia-Pacific 3MT competition, which will be held in Queensland University of Queensland.

2016 CCS 3MT competition details

• Date: Thursday 11 August
• Time: 12-1.30pm
• Venue: Lecture Theatre, Level 5, Alfred Centre
• CLICK HERE to RSVP for catering purposes
• The winner of the 2015 CCS 3MT competition was Ms Shanzana Khan. See her video.

2016 CCS 3MT heat is on: Please register if you'd like to compete

Central Clinical School HDR students regularly compete in the "Three Minute Thesis" competition (3MT), offered in every Australian university. The CCS 3 Minute Thesis Competition is an opportunity for HDR students to convey the relevance and importance of their research in just 3 minutes. It is an excellent opportunity to achieve a higher profile for research students and their work. The Monash 3MT finalist will then be invited to represent Monash University at the transnational final.

2016 CCS 3MT competition details

Registration link (Registrations for competitors close: 1 July)
Further information
CCS 3MT round

• Date: Thursday 11 August
• Time: 12-2pm
• Venue: Lecture theatre, Level 5, Alfred Centre
• Prizes
  • Winner: $300
  • Runner up: $200
  • People's choice award: $100

Videos of the week: Three Minute Thesis (3MT) presentations by Central Clinical School students

The Central Clinical School 3MT (Three Minute Thesis) heat was held Tuesday 4 Aug. There were six strong contenders on a range of subjects. The winner was Ms Shanzana Khan, and runner up and winner of the 'People's Choice' vote was Ms Ashlee Conway. Shanzana spoke on the influence of the Y chromosome lineage on blood pressure regulation. Ashlee had great fun with porphyria, otherwise and attractively known as 'Dracula's Disease'. We have created a Youtube playlist of their presentations on CCS youtube channel. Shanzana will be competing at the Faculty final on Friday 21 August at 1 pm, Clayton. The event will be live streamed to the Alfred Centre Level 5 lecture theatre - all welcome.

See more:

• 2015 CCS 3MT Youtube playlist
• More about the event
• More CCS photo galleries

Photo of the week: Central Clinical School 3MT thesis presenters

The Central Clinical School 3MT (Three Minute Thesis) heat was held Tuesday 4 Aug. There were six strong contenders on a range of subjects. The winner was Ms Shanzana Khan, and runner up and winner of the 'People's Choice' vote was Ms Ashlee Conway (pictured).

 

Shanzana spoke on the influence of the Y chromosome lineage on blood pressure regulation. Ashlee had great fun with porphyria, otherwise and attractively known as 'Dracula's Disease'. We will be publishing videos of their presentations on CCS youtube channel. Shanzana will be competing at the Faculty final on Friday 21 August at 1 pm, Clayton. Please go along and support her!

• More about the event

4 Aug 2015 3MT CCS heat is on: See our students compete! All welcome

The Central Clinical School is holding its 3MT thesis heat to select a finalist to compete in the Faculty heat, on Tuesday 4 August 2015. Please come along and support our participants. See more detail & RSVP for catering (lunch is provided courtesy Monash Postgraduate Association sponsorship) at:
www.med.monash.edu.au/cecs/education/hdr-3mt.html

 Ashlee Conway (ACBD)
Topic: The characterisation of red cell mutants identified in an ENU mutagenesis screen

Dominik Draxler (ACBD)
Topic: The plasminogen activation system in traumatic brain injury

Paddy Dempsey (Baker IDI)
Topic: Breaking up prolonged sitting - implications for prevention and management of Type 2 diabetes

Andrew Guy (Immunology/Burnet)
Topic: Assessing disordered proteins in Plasmodium falciparum and their importance as targets of protective humoral immunigy against symptomatic malaria

Shanzana Khan (Baker IDI)
Topic: The influence of Y Chromosome Lineage in determining vascular function, inflammation and blood pressure regulation



Waled Shihata (Baker IDI)
Topic: Pathophysiological effects of high intraluminal pressure on cardiovascular disease

See more & RSVP at www.med.monash.edu.au/cecs/education/hdr-3mt.html

Sara Mokhtar wins Central Clinical School 3 Minute Thesis

Sara Mokhtar

Central Clinical School held its annual 3 Minute Thesis competition on August 12 with five participants presenting their research in under three minutes. Sara Mokhtar won the competition with her accessible description of her thesis which is about amyloid beta protein phosphorylation of CRMP-2 and its regulation of neuritic dystrophy in Alzheimer's disease. Sara used the elegant and accurate analogy of a barren tree in Autumn to describe the brain of a patient suffering from Alzheimer's disease. Sara will now go on to compete in the faculty 3MT competition which will be held 22 August. Well done Sara!

• CCS 3MT photo gallery  
• See more information about the 22 Aug Faculty event.

12 Aug 2014 Central Clinical School 3MT competition for PhD students

2013 CCS 3MT winners:
Jodie Abramovitch,  Katherine
Hackman, Kirk Kee (absent)

Central Clinical School PhD students regularly compete in the "Three Minute Thesis" competition (3MT), offered in every Australian university. The CCS 3 Minute Thesis Competition is an opportunity for HDR students to convey the relevance and importance of their research in just 3 minutes.  2014 CCS 3MT will be held on Tuesday 12 August 2014, 10-11am at Lecture Theatre, Level 5, Alfred Centre.  Please come along and support the participants.  All welcome. Please RSVP for catering (morning tea).  See CCS 3MT competition page for participants' profiles and other information. See video for the 2013 winner, Dr Katherine Hackman. First published 17 June 2014.

Congratulations to Kathryn Hackman, 3MT Faculty finals

The 17 July 3MT CCS event was very successful, with nine excellent presentations on a tremendous variety of research ranging from working with patients to laboratory based research elaborating fundamental mechanisms. Dr Kathryn Hackman (Medicine/AIRmed & affiliated with the Alfred Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes) was the winner & Ms Jodie Abramovich (Immunology/AIRmed) and Dr Kirk Kee (Medicine/AIRmed) were tied runners-up.

2013 Three Minute Thesis (3MT) CCS heat will be big

11 PhD students from Central Clinical School will be competing in the 2013 3MT CCS heat on 17 July. The challenge is to present the topic, typically technical and complex in basic medical research, in three minutes or under, in a way that is engaging and accessible to a wider audience.