Australasian Society for Immunology
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The premier scientific society for Immunology research in Australia and New Zealand.
Australasian Society for Immunology
5d ago
Antony Basten If you weren't an Immunologist, what would you be? A country GP What is your favourite hobby? Genealogy What do you enjoy doing when you're not working? Sitting in the sun solving the nine letter word from the newspaper What was your first job? Pre-christmas postie followed by fruit picking on the River Murray. What is your fondest memory of your student or early career researcher days? The bee in my bonnet I had when a PhD student that eosinophilia is T cell dependent (based on a single ..read more
Australasian Society for Immunology
2w ago
Congratulations to Catarina F Almeida 2024 ASI Gordon Ada Awardee We warmly congratulate Catarina F Almeida winner of the 2024 ASI Gordon Ada Award -- Supporting members to travel for career related purposes. I am currently leading a small team on CD1-research at the Doherty Institute/University of Melbourne with 13 years of experience in Unconventional T cells (not MHC-peptide reactive). This includes a MSc- University of Lisbon/IMM in Portugal 2009 (with Prof Luis Graça), and a PhD- University of Melbourne, Australia Nov 2015 (with Prof Dale Godfrey). My ground-b ..read more
Australasian Society for Immunology
2w ago
ASI is committed to promoting gender equity and diversity at our annual meetings. As part of our commitment to promoting gender equity and diversity, we are offering: ASI Women's initiative Travel Awards (up to AUD1,000 each) ASI Annual Meeting Scientific Meeting Carer Grants (up to AUD1,000 each) ASI Women’s Initiative Travel Award Purpose To facilitate women with parental responsibilities to attend either the ASI Annual Scientific Meeting or another conference. These awards are intended to support women who are the primary carer of one or more ..read more
Australasian Society for Immunology
2w ago
Notification of ASI 2024 Abstract Outcomes Thank you to those who submitted an abstract in July-August for consideration at ASI 2024 Sydney. All outcomes from the July-August round were communicated to oral presenters and poster presenters on September 20th so if you have not yet received this please log in to your ASI member profile and check the status of your submitted abstract under the tab called ‘Applications’. Please register to attend the meeting if you haven’t already; your registration will confirm your acceptance to present ..read more
Australasian Society for Immunology
1M ago
Congratulations to Heeva Baharlou 2023 ASI Career Advancement Awardee We warmly congratulate Heeva Baharlou winner of the 2023 Career Advancement Award -- I am a medical student and postdoctoral researcher in Andrew Harman’s laboratory at the Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Sydney, Australia. I completed my PhD at the University of Sydney in 2022 where I developed new methods to spatially map the early events underlying the sexual transmission of HIV. My focus on systems-based approaches to analysis drew me to using spatial methods to study the biology of ..read more
Australasian Society for Immunology
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Congratulations to Phoebe Dewar 2022 ASI Career Advancement Awardee We warmly congratulate Phoebe Dewar winner of the 2022 Career Advancement Award -- My name is Phoebe, and I am a final year PhD Student in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Melbourne. In 2018 I completed my undergraduate degree in Biomedical Sciences, majoring in Infection and Immunity at the University of Otago. Following this, I completed an honours research project and two summer internships at the University of Otago with Professor James Ussher, investigating ..read more
Australasian Society for Immunology
1M ago
Congratulations to Katie Daly 2022 ASI Career Advancement Awardee We warmly congratulate Katie Daly winner of the 2022 ASI Career Advancement Award -- My name is Katie Daly and I received this award during my final year of PhD studies being supervised by Dr Jemma Mayall and Professor Jay Horvat of the University of Newcastle. The research performed by our lab group focuses on identifying the underlying immunological mechanisms of disease in chronic respiratory conditions and infections which may be modulated therapeutically to develop novel treatments. My ..read more
Australasian Society for Immunology
1M ago
Congratulations to Kirsten Ward-Hartstonge 2023 ASI Women's Initiative Awardee We warmly congratulate Kirsten Ward-Hartstonge winner of the 2023 ASI Women's Initiative Award -- I am a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Otago. I work in Professor Roslyn Kemp’s Lab, where we study the immune responses of people with inflammatory bowel diseases and cancer. I was awarded the 2023 Women’s Initiative Award to attend the international Australian and New Zealand Society for Immunology Conference in Auckland. This award allowed me to bring my 1-year old daughter with me ..read more
Australasian Society for Immunology
1M ago
We invite nominations for ASI Council 2025 We are pleased to now invite nominations to ASI Council, for appointment after the Annual General Meeting on Nov 27th 2024. It's a great time to get involved with ASI. Membership numbers and engagement are at a record high for the society, as we continue to offer wonderful opportunities and create new initiatives for our members. Positions will commence immediately after the 2024 Annual General Meeting on November 27th 2024. Why nominate for ASI Council? ✔️ Make a ..read more
Australasian Society for Immunology
2M ago
A special issue to celebrate IWD in 2025 A Wiley interdisciplinary special issue on Gender Equity in Healthcare will be released on International Women’s Day 2025, featuring contributions from 51 journals. Immunology & Cell Biology (ICB), the flagship journal of the Australia and New Zealand Immunology Society, invites ASI members to contribute to this initiative. ICB’s feature, “Advancing Equity and Inclusion in Healthcare: An Immunological Call to Action,” will address the underrepresentation of all minorities (gender, ethnicity, disability) in healthcare, including fundin ..read more