Participants/blood donors sought for study on blood clotting

At the Australian Centre for Blood Diseases (ACBD), the Hamilton lab group is studying the processes involved in the formation of blood clots, and are seeking participants for their research.

While blood clots normally form to prevent excessive bleeding following an injury, the same processes are involved in the formation of harmful clots that may block blood vessels, causing heart attacks or strokes. A better understanding of how clots form will not only increase our knowledge of blood clot formation in healthy individuals and individuals with cardiovascular disease, but may lead to new preventive and therapeutic drugs for heart attacks and strokes.

Participants sought: Pain in the brain

Participants sought: Pain in the brain

This research study is exploring changes in the brain in people who suffer from chronic low back pain. We are seeking female volunteers between 20 and 40 years of age who are right handed and currently experiencing low back pain.

MMO's 15 May 'Transfusions' Concert, featuring Beethoven's 5th symphony

Following our very successful Charity Chamber Concert, it is our great pleasure to personally invite you to the orchestra's Autumn Concert, Transfusions! The details are as follows, and may also be found on the attached concert flyer:

Date, time: Sunday 15 May, 5pm

Location: Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music Auditorium, 55 Scenic Boulevard, Monash University Clayton Campus

We would love to see you at the orchestra's first major performance of 2016! As is strongly hinted, the (in)famous Beethoven's Fifth Symphony will be featured.

http://www.monashmedorchestra.org.au/concerts/key-dates

Community notice: Flutracking is about to kick off again for 2016!

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Flutracking is about to kick off again for 2016!

Thank you so much for helping us track the flu last year - you helped us increase monitoring Australia-wide with 1 in every 900 Australians participating in Flutracking in 2015!

In 2016 we would really like to recruit another 3000 participants, so...

Please ask your friends and family to join by forwarding the following link:

• http://www.flutracking.net/?inv2f

Please share this story to all the other big-hearted community-minded people you know who would be willing to give 10 seconds per week to help us track flu and receive a weekly flu report and flu map in return! See more at:

• http://www.flutracking.net/?inv2f
• http://www.flutracking.net

You can also tell your friends about us at

• http://www.facebook.com/Flutracking

PS. The influenza vaccine is now available.

The Flutracking Team
flutracking@flutracking.net
Phone: (02) 4924 6477

Perspectives: 'Anti-immunisation movie Vaxxed is a platform for its maker, not its message'

Sarah Gill writes a critique of the new film 'Vaxxed' by Andrew Wakefield (of MMR-autism notoriety). She says, "Don't be fooled – Wakefield's story is not the tale of a man wronged by powerful corporations or the medical establishment, which, in fact, closed ranks to protect him. It's the story of a physician who set out to cast doubt on vaccine safety before he'd even gathered the evidence, and he did so not for the public good, but for private gain."

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/comment/antiimmunisation-movie-vaxxed-is-a-platform-for-its-maker-not-its-message-20160425-goetem.html

Photo of the week: Epidermal/Development Lab group

2016 Epidermal/Development Lab group. L-R: Dr Marina Carpinelli, Mr Michael de Vries (PhD student), Dr Lee Miles, Dr Seb Dworkin, Dr Charbel Darido, Ms Lakshmi Krishnan, Ms Alana Auden, Dr Smitha Georgy. Absent: Prof Steve Jane, Mr Darren Partridge

The Epidermal/Development group headed by Prof Stephen Jane welcomes Dr Lee Miles and Mr Michael de Vries. Lee is a recent Monash PhD graduate specialising in developmental gene expression regulation using the animal model of zebra fish. Michael is a PhD student who started in 2015. His thesis topic is "The role of Grainyhead-like transcription factors in craniofacial development". See more about the group's research at www.med.monash.edu.au/medicine/alfred/research/epidermal-development.html

Forthcoming CCS events: Seminars, public events, general notices

Kirsty Wilson

Central Clinical School has regular seminar series and postgraduate 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 Intranet's Announcements page.

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

What's on for this coming week: 25 - 29 Apr 2016

Tue	►	26-Apr	10:00	General Honours Literal Review Seminar
Wed	►	26-Apr	10:00	General Honours Literal Review Seminar
Thu	►	27-Apr	12:00	Cutting Edge Journal Club - Kirsty Wilson
Fri	►	29-Apr	9:00	Day of Immunology

Forthcoming events

• 12 Oct 2016 CCS Public Lecture: Innovative systems for improving trauma injury treatment