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Monday April 07, 2025

Congratulations to ALEXANDRA CAREY HOPPÉ 2024 51动漫 CAREER ADVANCEMENT - POSTGRADUATE AWARDEE     We warmly congratulate Alexandra Carey Hoppé winner of the 2024 51动漫 Career Advancement – Postgraduate Award.   I am currently in my final year of my PhD candidature within the Immunovirology and Pathogenesis Program at the Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney, under the supervision of Dr Mee Ling Munier, A/Prof Vanessa Venturi and Prof Anthony Kelleher. In my past life I was a professional contemporary dancer however I have now thrown away the leotards and ...
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Monday April 07, 2025

Congratulations to Harry Horsnell 2024 51动漫 Travel Awardee   We warmly congratulate Harry Horsnell winner of the 2024 51动漫 Travel Award - Postdoctoral   My name is Harry Horsnell, and I started my career in immunology at University College London (UK) in the lab of Dr Sophie Acton. During my PhD I worked on understanding how stromal cells use physical forces to control the immune function of lymph nodes. To continue my research career, I moved to the Peter Doherty Institute (PDI) in September 2022. I joined Professor Scott ...
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Thursday March 20, 2025

Congratulations to Mee Ling Munier 2024 51动漫 Gordon Ada Travel Awardee   We warmly congratulate Mee Ling Munier winner of the 2024 51动漫 Gordon Ada Travel Award -- Supporting mid career 51动漫 members who wish to travel for career related purposes I am a Senior Research Fellow and group leader of the Vaccine Immunogenomics group within the Immunovirology and Pathogenesis Program at the Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney. The broad aim of my research is to understand and characterise the human immune response to vaccination and viral infection.  We utilise ...
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Tuesday March 18, 2025

Congratulations to Laura Cook 2022 51动漫 Gordon Ada Career Advancement Awardee   We warmly congratulate Laura Cook winner of the 2022 51动漫 Gordon Ada Career Advancement Award Supporting mid career 51动漫 members who wish to travel for career related purposes I am an NHMRC Emerging Leadership Investigator and Senior Research Officer in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne at the Doherty Institute. My group is pursuing studies of immune regulation, with a focus on regulatory T cells. We are particularly interested in mechanisms that enhance ...
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Tuesday March 04, 2025

Equity Diversity and Inclusion Committee Update     An update from Sumaira Hasnain 51动漫 Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Coordinator and Chair, EDI Committee    It is with great pleasure that I write my first column in my capacity as the new Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Chair at the Australian and New Zealand Society for Immunology. Having served as the Deputy Chair for the past year, I want to extend a heartfelt thank you to the outgoing EDI Chair, Prof. Diana Hansen, and her predecessor, Dr Kylin ...
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Monday March 03, 2025

Congratulations to Charis Teh, 2024 51动漫 Margaret Baird Awardee   We warmly congratulate Charis Teh winner of the Margaret Baird Women in Immunology 51动漫 Award    Cracking the code for cancer treatment is the ultimate goal. My team is getting closer to this by identifying the 'kill switch' that makes regulatory T (Treg) cells self-destruct and harnessing the knowledge for new Treg-based immunotherapies.  My journey in immunology and cell death biology has taken me through world-renowned laboratories: I completed my PhD under Professors Christopher Goodnow and Anselm Enders at ...
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Wednesday February 26, 2025

Congratulations to Prerna Mudai, 2024 51动漫 Global Outreach Awardee   We warmly congratulate Prerna Mudai winner of the 2024 51动漫 Global Outreach Award --   I would like to extend my gratitude and appreciation to the 51动漫 Award Committee for selecting me for the Global Outreach Award. I am a PhD candidate at the Innate Immunology Lab, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences at the University of Queensland (UQ). I am working on a project on Toll-like receptor 2 signalling mechanisms under the supervision of Prof. Katryn Stacey. I ...
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Monday February 24, 2025

51动漫 Awards Judging Panel  Submit your EOI before March 31st 2025 Application Round: Feb 24th - Mar 31st 2025 As 51动漫 continues to grow, we give back more to our members by providing numerous awards and funding opportunities throughout the year. Back in 2019, we introduced a new 51动漫 initiative - the 51动漫 Awards Judging Panel.  We established a group of members who were keen to give back a little and willing to act as assessors for scoring 51动漫 award applications. We now invite 51动漫 members to ...
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Monday February 24, 2025

Congratulations to Zhoujie Ding winner of the 2024 51动漫 Breakthrough Immunology Award and Women’s Initiative Travel Award     We warmly congratulate Zhoujie Ding winner of the 2024 51动漫 Breakthrough Immunology Award and Women’s Initiative Travel Award   I am a Group Leader in the Department of Immunology within the School of Translational Medicine at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. I am part of the Tarlinton Immune Memory Laboratory and currently co-lead an NHMRC Ideas Grant project focusing on plasma cell biology in health and disease.  I completed my PhD study in ...
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Friday February 21, 2025

Win an AUD200 cash prize for an 51动漫 News Blog contribution! We are offering current 51动漫 members the opportunity to win AUD200 for selected editorial-style contributions to the 51动漫 newsletter blog*.  This opportunity is for members only, so please click here to renew your membership if you haven't already.  Email our 51动漫 Digital News Coordinator with a brief (2-3 sentence) description of your proposed editorial contribution to find out if your idea is a good fit, before you write. Contributions need to relate to immunology or ...
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Friday January 31, 2025

  Submit your abstract for IUIS 2025 Vienna Abstracts close Feb 11th 2025 Click here for the IUIS 2025 abstracts page  
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Friday January 17, 2025

Inviting 2025 Membership Renewals now  We warmly welcome our new 51动漫 Members and many thanks to all of our members who have already renewed for this year. Please consider renewing your 51动漫 membership now by clicking the green button below. March 31st is the deadline for awards eligibility Don't forget that eligibility for most 51动漫 awards require renewal by March 31st, so please renew now.  Renew now in under 2 min
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Thursday December 19, 2024

Many congratulations to the following people for receiving our prestigious 51动漫 Awards and Special Honours. 馃弳 51动漫 SPECIAL HONOURS Honorary Life Membership Lynn Corcoran Anthony Cunningham Ken Shortman Jonathan Sprent Rowley Medallist David Tarlinton Foundation Lecturer Antony Basten Burnet Oration Carola Vinuesa Doherty Medallists Susan Christo Carolien van de Sandt 馃弳 51动漫 AWARDS Breakthrough Immunology Awards Etienne Masle-Farquhar 鈥媄houjie Ding Margaret Baird Women in Immunology Award Charis Teh 51动漫 Women's Initiative Travel Awards Kunyu Li  Zhoujie Ding Kavita Bisht Khalida Perveen Travel Award - Jacques Miller category Roslyn Kemp Travel Award - Gordon Ada category C. Mee Ling Munier Lucille Rankin 鈥婥atarina F dos Santos Sa e Almeida Asolina Braun Kerrie Sandgren Kok Fei (Jimmy) ...
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Wednesday December 18, 2024

馃毄 Discontinuation of Autorenewal Payment Option Dear 51动漫 Members, We recently wrote to those members currently using the autorenewal payment option for their membership fees (Dec 18th 2024) Regretfully, after 2 years of close monitoring and consideration, we will be cancelling autorenewal as an option to pay your 51动漫 membership.  This means that from January 1st, all membership payments will be done via the standard ‘renewal’ link. What you need to do There is no action needed from you to cancel your auto renewal. Please see ...
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Friday December 13, 2024

Are you one of our member quiz winners? We recently hosted a member quiz and are excited to announce our 10 winners!  The following winners were the first 10 members to answer all questions correctly. Congratulations to: 馃専Phoebe Dewar 猸怱j Sijie Shen 猸怑leanor Mills 猸怐amian Oyong 猸怱arah Wilkey 猸怞ason Kelly 猸怰ory Costello 猸怣anisha Patil 猸怢uis Munoz-Erazo 猸怹ahra Abbas If you are a winner named above: Please log in to your 51动漫 member profile and check your address is up to date, as we will be sending your prize there. What's the prize? 猸� All 10 winners ...
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Thursday December 12, 2024

Dear 51动漫 Members, I am pleased to inform you about the FIMSA Advanced Immunology Course that will take place from 10-12 February 2025 at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India. This course is an excellent opportunity for immunologists and young researchers to engage with advanced topics in immunology, participate in hands-on sessions, and connect with experts from around the globe. To encourage participation from a broader audience across FIMSA member countries, FIMSA is providing travel support of USD600 and a registration fee waiver of ...
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Friday November 08, 2024

Make sure you're eligible for 2025 awards by renewing now This is a friendly reminder to please check that you hold a 2024 membership, if you are interested in applying for 51动漫 awards in 2025. It might seem a little odd to be renewing now considering our memberships run for the calendar year (Jan 1st to Dec 31st) but we don't want you to be disappointed next year when applying for an award, if you don't hold a 2024 membership.  Many of our ...
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