Congratulations to A/Prof Robyn Slattery on two teaching awards!

Associate Professor Robyn Slattery

Congratulations to Associate Professor Robyn Slattery in the Department of Immunology and Pathology, who has won two separate awards for teaching excellence! Robyn won the
inaugural Monash University Office of Learning and Teaching Teacher Innovation and Impact Award, in particular for her innovation of Duet lectures.

Robyn’s teaching and learning innovation has been judged as outstanding by the selection committee.

Robyn also won the 2016 Monash Student Association (MSA) Teaching Award for the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences.

Dr Anita Barry receives Outstanding Achievement Award!

Congratulations to Dr Anita Barry, who has won an outstanding achievement award from TechNet Australia for support of teaching and research within their institution. TechNet Australia is a group of tertiary technical staff across Australia, New Zealand and Fiji. People are nominated and then judged by a panel of their peers (a mix of academic, technical and managerial staff).

Anita looks after the Department of Immunology & Pathology's teaching lab at Clayton. She works quite closely with A/Prof Frank Alderuccio and Dr Kim Murphy in the delivery of immunology undergraduate teaching.

D.S. Rosengarten surgical trainee prize winner is Enis Kocak

Dr Enis Kocak won this year's Rosengarten prize

The DS Rosengarten Surgical Trainee Research Prize for 2016, held on Saturday 3 December, was very successful, well attended and with a great range of research showcased.

The winner in 2016 is Dr Enis Kocak (pictured) for his presentation on, “Subconjunctival dexamethasone for the prevention of cystoid macular oedema in routine cataract surgery: a randomised, controlled, trial”.

See more about this year's presenters in the Abstract booklet.

AMREP EMCR 2016 Best Paper Awards

Smitha Georgy won the AMREP
EMCR best paper award in the
Biomedical Research category

Congratulations to the winners of this year's AMREP EMCR 2016 Best Paper Awards! The competition was strong and well done to all for entering. The categories were for Biomedical, Clinical and Public Health, with awards for Early and mid-career researchers in each. Below is a list of the winners in each of the respective categories. Awardees are given a certificate and a $500 Visa Prepaid Gift card.

Congratulations to Amani Alrehaili on PhD award!

Amani Alrehaili

Congratulations to Mrs Amani Alrehaili on the completion and award of her PhD!

Amani's topic is “The role of NgR on microglial/macrophage activity during experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis”. She was supervised by Dr Steven Petratos from the Department of Medicine and Professor Richard Boyd (ARMI).

Amani will be returning to Saudi Arabia to take up an academic appointment at Taif University. Well done Amani, and we will look forward to future collaborations and exchanges.

Congratulations to Erica Kim on poster award

Erica Kim presenting in the 2016 3MT
heat held by CCS.

Congratulations to PhD student Erica Kim, who received the 'Bill Evans Memorial Young Investigator Award' for the best poster on Sunday 4 December 2016.

Erica's poster was part of the 34th Annual Scientific Meeting 'Neuropathology in research', held by The Australian and New Zealand Society for Neuropathology, at Menzies Research Institute, Hobart. Erica is supervised by Dr Steven Petratos. See more about the Petratos research group.

Opportunities: Grants, Fellowships, EOIs, funding

Recent grant and funding opportunities as notified from the Monash Research Office and with thanks to the Biomedicine Discovery Institute for compiling linked summaries. Deadline dates provided.

• 10 Jan 2017: Call to nominate for the 2017 Volvo Environment Prize - deadline
• 18 Jan 2017: MRO Seminar: Project Grant Information Session
• 3 Feb 2017: Citizen Science Grants - deadline
• PhD scholarships x3 at Monash Lung & Sleep Institute. Contact: philip.bardin@monash.edu