Congratulations to Cheng Lo, Sudip Paul and Amy Wilson on their higher degree completions!

L-R: Completed graduate research students Amy Wilson,
Cheng Hean Lo and Sudip Paul

Congratulations to our recently completed graduate research students, Cheng Hean Lo, Sudip Paul and Amy Wilson! Their degrees were conferred 16 April 2020. We wish them well for their future scientific careers.

Photo of the week: our CCS graduate symposium prize winners!

L-R: 2018 CCS Graduate Research symposium winners Charithani Keragala, Michelle Wong (runner up, poster presentation), Lakshanie Wickramasinghe, Amy Wilson, Angela Nguyen (winner, oral presentation)

We would like to congratulate all of our 2018 CCS Graduate symposium prize winners! The judges were very happy with all the presentations. A major thank you also to the organizing team of PhD students, and to the supervisors who sportingly took part in the comic relief segments of the day!
See photo gallery for presenters and audience shots.

Photo of the week: CCS 3MT heat winners!

Central Clinical School held its heat for the Three Minute Thesis competition on Thursday 21 June 2018. The finalists were, L-R above, Ms Amy Wilson (winner), Ms Rosie Latimer (runner up) and Mr Jasper Cornish (People's Choice). Prof Rob Medcalf, CCS's postgraduate coordinator (far right), presented the awards.  Many thanks to the judging panel Prof Rob Medcalf, Prof Jennifer Hoy, Prof Jennifer Wilkinson-Berka and Prof Ben Marsland and all others who came to support their peers. See more about the participants, their topics and their supervisors at:  https://www.monash.edu/medicine/ccs/education/current-students/hdr-3mt/2018-ccs-3mt

CCS PhD student profile: Amy Wilson

Amy Wilson at the 2017 CCS 3MT heat. She was runner up.

by Matt Jane

Amy Wilson is a PhD student in the Department of Immunology and Pathology supervised by Professor Magdalena Plebanski. Amy completed a Bachelor of Science (Medical Bioscience) at Monash University. Amy has also completed an Honours degree looking at ovarian cancer biomarkers at the Hudson Institute of Medical Research.

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