Congratulations to our recently completed PhD students!

Congratulations to our recently completed PhD students!
L-R: Yow Keat Tham, Maria Daglas and Dominik Draxler

Congratulations to our recently completed PhD students, Yow Keat Tham, Maria Daglas and Dominik Draxler! We wish them well for their future scientific careers.

Dominik Draxler's thesis is titled, "New approaches for traumatic brain injury". Dominik was supervised by Professor Rob Medcalf and Dr Maithili Sashindranath (Australian Centre for Blood Diseases). Dominik is co-author on a very recent paper - see this week's research feature story,

Journey into new field complements blood research.

Maria Daglas's thesis is titled, "Investigating the long term effects of TBI [Traumatic Brain Injury] on the immune and fibrinolytic system". She was supervised by Professor Rob Medcalf, Dr Maithili Sashindranath (Australian Centre for Blood Diseases), and Associate Professor Frank Alderuccio (Department of Immunology and Pathology).

Yow Keat Tham's thesis is titled "Targeting lipids differentially regulated in settings of physiological cardiac hypertrophy and disease". He was supervised by Dr Julie McMullen and Professor Peter Meikle from the Baker Institute.

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