Congratulations to Dr Jess Borger on inaugural Women in Immunology award!

Dr Jessica Borger at the ASI award with 

Harriet Pope, Margaret Baird's daughter

Congratulations to Dr Jessica Borger, who has been awarded a Margaret Baird Women in Immunology Lectureship Award at the Australian and New Zealand Society for Immunology (ASI) conference in Adelaide.

The award was established only this year in memory of Professor Margaret Baird who died in 2016.

Dr Borger said she was honoured by the award and looked forward to furthering Margaret's legacy of supporting women and students in immunological research.

International Congress of Immunology 2016 - Call for abstracts!

The International Congress of Immunology is to be held in Melbourne, August 21-26, 2016. The meeting is only held every 3 years. Please check the website for details on abstract submission and the excellent scientific program: ​http://ici2016.org/

ASI will support postgrad and junior postdoc members at this meeting with bursaries of a combined value of more than 100k, so get in fast with your applications. See more details here  To be eligible for a bursary, you will need to be a member of ASI and submit your abstract by 25 January 2016.​

This is a great opportunity to see the world's best immunologists and impress them with your questions and knowledge. Also, you may score an invite for an overseas post-doc! 

Note: Early bird registration for ICI 2016 closes by 11 May, 2016.

Congratulations to Immunology PhD students Maria Demaria and Eleanor Jones for IgV prizes

Maria Demaria

Eleanor Jones

Monash Department of Immunology's PhD students, Maria Demaria and Eleanor Jones, won two of the three prizes awarded for best presentation at the Immunology Group Victoria's (IgV) annual retreat, 26-27 Sept 2013.  The prizes are travel awards to attend the Australasian Society of Immunology conference in Wellington, NZ in December 2013.

Immunology research on alveolar lung macrophages wins ASI prize

Erika Duan is a PhD student in the Leukocyte Signalling Laboratory, headed by Associate Professor Margaret Hibbs, studying alveolar lung macrophages. Erika won a prize at the Australasian Society of Immunology (ASI) annual conference in December 2012 for her presentation on how lung macrophages vary with infection and inflammation and the challenges of translating the mouse model data to understanding the human context.