Congratulations to Dean Talia and Man Kit Lee on their PhD completions!

Congratulations to our PhD graduates, Mr Dean Talia & Mr Man Kit Lee! We wish you well in your postdoc scientific careers.

Dean Talia

Man Kit Lee

Dean's thesis is titled, "Immunomodulatory intervention: IL-17A and regulatory T cells in a model of retinopathy of prematurity", and he was supervised by Prof Fabienne Mackay & Prof Jennifer Wilkinson-Berka, previously in the Department of Immunology and Pathology (Alfred).

Man Kit Lee's thesis is titled, "Lipid Metabolism in Different Monocyte and Macrophage Subsets in Cardiovascular Disease", and he was supervised by Mr Andrew Murphy, Prof Jaye Chin-Dusting of the Baker Institute.

CCS has had 26 PhD completions throughout 2017.

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!

Photo of the week: 2016 Central Clinical School Graduate Research Symposium winners

2016 CCS's postgraduate symposium winners. L-R: Man Kit Lee, Paddy Dempsey, Liriye Kurtovic, Nikolce Kocovski, Shauna French, Ricardo Ataide, David Tarlinton, Michael de Vries, Waled Shihata

by Eliza Watson

The Central Clinical School (CCS) Postgraduate Symposium committee ran an excellent event which showcased research from across the CCS. There were 14 oral presenters and 11 poster presenters, as well as the fun events ,“Explain my graph” and the “No-Bell” prize, where students nominated their supervisors to compete. The event was live tweeted on the CCS twitter feed (@CCSMonash), so make sure to take a look at the feed and the hashtag #CCSPG8.

Winners at the symposium were:

Oral Presentations:
1st – Paddy Dempsey (Baker IDI)
2nd – Shauna French (ACBD)
3rd – Waled Shihata (Baker IDI)

Poster Presentations:
1st – Man Kit ‘Sam’ Lee (Baker IDI)
2nd – Alicia Chenoweth (Burnet)
3rd – Liriye Kurtovic (Burnet)

“Explain my graph” – Prof David Tarlinton (Head, Department of Immunology and Pathology)
“No-Bell prize” – Dr Ricardo Ataide (Burnet Institute)

Door Prize – Nikolce Kocovski
Raffle - Michael de Vries

CCS postgrad students (and supervisors) excel in symposium

L-R: No-Bell grilling by Jodie Abramovitch, Kai Lee, Man Kit
 Lee, Timothy Colgan and their subject, Dr Paul Gregorovic

Central Clinical School postgraduate students held a very successful symposium on 19 November 2014, the seventh annual symposium since the series inception. There was an outstanding line up of both oral and poster presenters. Comic relief was provided by getting supervisors to jump through the hoops of "Explain my graph" (in which a supervisor had to speak to graphs in a subject area not their own) and the "No-Bell" prize competition (in which supervisors had to answer tricky questions in very non-technical language).