CCS PhD student profile: Amy Wilson

Amy Wilson at the 2017 CCS 3MT heat. She was runner up.

by Matt Jane

Amy Wilson is a PhD student in the Department of Immunology and Pathology supervised by Professor Magdalena Plebanski. Amy completed a Bachelor of Science (Medical Bioscience) at Monash University. Amy has also completed an Honours degree looking at ovarian cancer biomarkers at the Hudson Institute of Medical Research.

2017 AMREP EMCR Best Paper Awards: applications closing soon!

2016 Biomedical Research category winner, Dr Smitha Georgy

There is only one month to go until applications close for the 2017 Awards! AMREP EMCRs are encouraged to apply soon to avoid disappointments. Details

• Closing date: 5 pm Friday 1 September 2017 (late and/or incomplete application forms will not be considered)
• Enquiries: ecr.amrep@monash.edu
• Guidelines and eligibility
• Application form

Video of the week: Tori Berquist describes the BMedSc(Hons) experience at CCS

Tori Berquist talks about her experience doing a Bachelor of Medicine Honours year at the Alfred in this video from 13 July 2017 AMREP information night. She continues on research projects and her medical education at the precinct. Find out more:

• Bachelor of Medical Science (Honours): www.med.monash.edu.au/cecs/education/bmedsc-honours.html
• See complete video playlist with Professors Peter Gibson (Why CCS? Why AMREP?) and Karin Jandeleit-Dahm (BMedSc(Hons) coordinator)

What's on at CCS 7-11 August 2017

Julia Liang is presenting on
Tues 8 Aug

Central Clinical School (CCS) has regular seminar series and postgraduate presentations. Event notices are posted on the CCS Events calendar.

CCS staff and 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

See CCS seminar index: www.med.monash.edu.au/cecs/events/seminars.html

What's on at CCS 7-11 August 2017

Mon	07/08/2017	►	12:30	Alfred Psychiatry Grand Round Presentation
Tue	08/08/2017	►	10:00	Department of Diabetes Student Journal Club: Julia Liang
		►	10:00	Shut up and Write for HDR students and EMCRs from the AMREP precinct
Wed	09/08/2017	►	09:00	AMREP- Free student counselling service
		►	11:30	Immunology Seminar: Stephen Turner
Thur	10/08/2017	►	11:30	Cutting Edge Journal Club: Evelyn Tsantikos
		►	12:00	The Alfred Grand Round: The Weird & Wonderful History of Resuscitation in Australia
		►	14:00	Shut up and Write for HDR students and EMCRs from the AMREP precinct

CCS publications update: 29 July - 4 August 2017

Prof Andrew Wei in the lab. He and colleagues have published a
recent paper in Leukemia, on improved targeted therapy for AML.
Image: Corey Nassau

Recent publications for Central Clinical School affiliated authors in the following departments. Note, browse down this entry for pubs listing. Linked headings are to the departments' home pages.

• Allergy, Immunology and Respiratory Medicine (AIRMed)
• Australian Centre for Blood Diseases (ACBD) 
• Diabetes
• Gastroenterology
• Immunology and Pathology
• Infectious Diseases
• Monash Alfred Psychiatry research centre (MAPrc) 
• Medicine
• Surgery 

CCS PhD student profile: Matthew Snelson

Matthew Snelson in the CCS 3MT heat

By Matt Jane

Matthew Snelson, 2017 CCS 3MT winner, is a PhD student at the Department of Diabetes in the Glycation, Nutrition and Metabolism lab where he is supervised by Associate Professor Melinda Coughlan.

Matthew completed a Bachelor of Science in Nutrition and a Postgraduate Diploma of Dietetics at Curtin University, Perth. Matthew has also completed an Honours degree looking at diet and brain barrier dysfunction as well as a  Postgraduate Diploma of Biotechnology at Swinburne University.

Congratulations to Devy Deliyanti on JDRF Post-doctoral Fellowship

Dr Devy Deliyanti receives a three 
year JRDF Post-doc fellowship

Congratulations to Dr Devy Deliyanti, on receiving a three-year Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) Post-doctoral Fellowship.  Dr Deliyanti, a Research Fellow in the Diabetic Retinopathy Lab, Department of Diabetes is one of only two Australians to receive the fellowship this year.

The award will enable Devy to evaluate if boosting the immunosuppressive capacity of regulatory T cells improves retinal disease in type 1 diabetes. Devy will interrogate the efficacy of various treatment approaches in animal models of diabetic retinopathy and build upon her recent first author paper in Nature Communications (in press).