NHMRC Research 2016 application dates

Forthcoming National Health & Medical Research Council application/opening dates

• 16 Dec 2015: Centres of Research Excellence: Minimum data due 
• 13 Jan 2016:  Project Grants : opens in RGMS
• 20 Jan 2016:  Development Grants: Minimum data due
• 20 Jan 2016: NHMRC - NIH BRAIN Initiative Collaborative Research Grants: Applications close
• 20 Jan 2016: Partnership Projects: Applications for Peer Review Cycle #1 open
• 3 Feb 2016: Practitioner Fellowships: Applications close
• 3 Feb 2016: Research Fellowships: Applications close 3 February 2016

The funding calendar is available on the NHMRC website.

Read NHMRC Tracker updates here.

CCS's top tweet: Robert Gillies' philanthropic work

We pinned this tweet to the top of @CCSMonash Twitter page feed, and it was seen by over 1000 viewers. Good luck to Robert Gillies for the work with homeless people - too many of them for a wealthy, first world country. Follow his work at @Homelessofmelb. See the original tweet at https://twitter.com/CCSMonash/status/659841821825044480

Position vacant: Faculty of Science HEW 5 Administration Officer, Research and Graduate Research

The Faculty of Science Research Office is seeking to appoint a full-time casual HEW 5 Administration Officer, Research and Graduate Research.  The role of the Administration Officer is to provide a wide range of administrative services and support for research staff and Graduate Research students across the Faculty of Science.  We are seeking ​a ​highly motivated individual who has exceptional organisational skills, who thrives on attention to detail, engaging with staff and students, and has a passion for delivering excellent administrative service.  Please refer to the attached Position Description for further information.

Odd spot: When data gets creepy - the secrets we don’t realise we’re giving away

Ben Goldacre says that we all worry about digital spies stealing our data – and now even the things we thought we were happy to share are being used in ways we don’t like.

Why aren’t we making more of a fuss? Because not really understanding the technology, we have few sound intuitions into what is safe and what is flimsy when it comes to securing our digital lives – let alone what is ethical and what is creepy. See Ben Goldacre's entire essay.

See also

• The Roast ABC TV 2 July 2014 critique of Facebook's ethics violations, at timepoint 7.30.
• Did Facebook's experiment violate ethics? edition.cnn.com/2014/07/02/opinion/klitzman-facebook-experiment/

Photo of the week: 2015 D.S. Rosengarten Surgical Trainee Research Prize

Mrs Candice Rosengarten presenting the D.S. Rosengarten plate to Dr Katherine Suter, who had come straight from her Alfred ICU shift handover. Mrs Rosengarten is the widow of David Rosengarten and attends each year.

Congratulations to Dr Katherine Suter on winning this year's D.S. Rosengarten Surgical Trainee Research Prize competition on Sat 5 Dec 2015. Katherine presented on “Pre-operative Predictors of Parathyroid Microadenomas”. Adenomas are non-cancerous or 'benign' tumours. However, if they form within the parathyroid gland, they can cause a cascade of different problems, ranging from psychiatric disturbance to bone disease. If discovered, the main mode of treatment is surgical removal. Katherine's study, involving 797 patients, looked at the small, or 'micro' adenomas. The smaller they are, the more invasive the surgery required and less likelihood of cure. She concluded that "microadenomas continue to present as a challenge in both diagnosis and management."

See more:

• All presenters' abstracts in the program booklet
• About the D.S. Rosengarten Surgery Prize.
• The photo gallery of the event.

Video of the week: Ricardo Ataide explains someone else's graph

The 2015 CCS postgraduate symposium included a couple of sections for comic light relief. Dr Ricardo Ataide of the Burnet Institute won the "Explain My Graph" segment, in which the presenter has to talk to a subject with which he or she is not familiar, and has never seen the slides before. Ricardo's own subject area is malaria, but here he fluently explains (or doesn't) a possible therapy for ovarian cancer patients.
See more

• The video itself: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPEfdyErrcM
• About the symposium: www.med.monash.edu.au/cecs/education/hdr-symposium.html
• CCS videos:  https://www.youtube.com/user/CCSMonash
• Ricardo's own malaria research: https://www.burnet.edu.au/staff_members/383_ricardo_ataide

Forthcoming CCS events: Seminars, public events, general notices

2014 CCS postgraduate symposium 

Central Clinical School has regular seminar series and graduate research presentations. All event notices are maintained on the CCS Events calendar. CCS staff & students can see details of both public and local events (including professional development courses, trade fairs and Graduate Research Student calendars) and deadlines, at the CCS Intranet's Announcements page.

Various departments have their own calendars. See CCS seminar index: www.med.monash.edu.au/cecs/events/seminars.html

2015 close

• University shutdown is 23 Dec 2015 - 3 Jan 2016 inclusive
• 2016 events will be posted from early Feb 2016.

What's on for this coming week: 14-18 Dec 2015

Mon	►	14-Dec	12:30	Psychiatry Professorial Grand Round
Thu	►	17-Dec	17:00	Drop off gifts for Salvation Army pickup to BakerIDI foyer