| January 2008 | JSCMR Summer Research Scholars
Undergraduate students from across Australia and New Zealand spent their summer vacation doing research projects at JCSMR. This opportunity introduces students who are considering postgraduate studies to a world-class research environment. Further Information
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| January 2008 | National Youth Science Forum Visits
National Youth Science Forum students toured JCSMR laboratories on Monday the 21st January. Each year the NSYF brings together students moving into Year 12, who wish to follow careers in science, engineering and technology by introducing them to research and researchers, by encouraging the achievement of excellence in all their undertakings, and by helping to develop their communication and interpersonal skills. A second group of students will visit the School on Wednesday 23th January. | | |  |
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| December 2007 | The Fenner Medal & The Dewar Milne Prize
Dr Amanda de Mestre was awarded The Frank Fenner Medal on Friday the 7th December at an awards ceremony in the Finkel Theatre. The Frank Fenner Medal is awarded annually for the most outstanding PhD thesis submitted in The John Curtin School of Medical Research at the Australian National University.
Amanda was also presented with the Dewar Milne Prize which is awarded to the student judged to have carried out the most significant piece of research in the field of immunology during their doctoral candidature at The John Curtin School of Medical Research. Professor Frank Fenner and Professor Frances Shannon presented the awards. Amanda then gave a seminar entitled "Survival and function of equine trophoblast allografts: a novel approach to cell therapy?" | | |  |
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| August 2007 | Medical and Health Science Careers Day
Visit JCSMR on 25th August 2007 between 9am and 3pm. ANU Colleges jointly present career options for those interested in medical, biomedical or health science careers. All major areas of study will have booths including graduate entry medicine, undergraduate and postgraduate coursework programs and postgraduate research programs. A series of presentations on cutting edge research will be held throughout the day in the Finkel Lecture Theatre.More information. | | |  |
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| August 2007 | JCSMR Open day
The John Curtin School of Medical Research Open Day gives you the opportunity to talk to scientists in their working laboratories. Researchers in fields as diverse as asthma, diabetes, HIV and cancer will be there to demonstrate their work and answer your questions. On this one day, the doors of the School will be open to all secondary students and members of the public. The School is open during National Science Week as part of the Australian Science Festival. Friday 17 August 2007, 10am-5pm. Bookings essential for school groups only. Please contact Amy Eichner on 6125 1057, or E: public.affairs@jcsmr.anu.edu.au | | |  |
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| July 2007 | JCSMR students conferred degrees at recent Graduation
Professor Frances Shannon, Deputy Director of The John Curtin School of Medical Research (left) congratulates Drs Anna Moore and Vanessa Prescott following their graduation on 13th July. | | |  |
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| June 2007 | ASMR Young Investigators Forum
The Australian Society for Medical Research held it's Young Invesigator's Forum of the ACT Branch at The John Curtin School of Medical Research last week. Three JCSMR students were awarded prizes. Catherine Horan from the Division of Bioscience won the 'Young Tall Poppy' award for the best talk. Michelle Linterman from the Division of Immunology and Genetics won the ASBMB award for the best poster presented and Dean Yee also from the Division of Immunology and Genetics won the ASMR award for the best student presentation. | | |  |
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| April 2007 | Di Yu wins award
Congratulations to Di Yu, who has been
awarded the Lupus 2007 Young Investigator Award to attend the 8th International Congress on Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in Shanghai, China
in May. Di has recently completed his PhD studies in the Immunogenomics laboratory, JCSMR.
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| March 2007 | The Fenner Medal
Congratulations to Dr Adrian Liston on his award of The
Frank Fenner Medal last Friday. The Frank Fenner Medal is awarded for the most outstanding thesis submitted within The John Curtin
School of Medical Research in each calendar year, and is one of the few such prestigious prizes available to a scientist in the early stages
of their research career. Dr Liston studied aspects of the genetic basis of human autoimmunity during his PhD studies with Professor
Christopher Goodnow. He is currently a Senior Fellow at the University of Washington, Seattle. | | |  |
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| January 2007 | National Youth Science Forum
National Youth Science Forum runs two sessions
through the month of January, and students were last week hosted by three laboratories within The John Curtin School of Medical Research.
Session Two begins this week, with three groups visiting the School over the next few days. | | |  |
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| December 2006 | Fellowship
and Research Awards recently granted to JCSMR student
Elissa Sutcliffe from the Cancer and Vascular Biology Group has been awarded
the "Ruth Gani Memorial Travelling Fellowship for Human Genetics" for 2006. The award will assist Elissa to attend the Keystone
"Epigenetics: Regulations of Chromatin Structure in Development and Disease" Conference in Colorado, April 2007. Elissa has
also been awarded the Australian Society of Medical Research Domestic Travel Award. One domestic travel award is given nationally each year
by ASMR for a PhD student to visit another laboratory to learn novel techniques. She will use this award to learn the ChIP-on-Chip
technology.
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| September 2006 | Neuroscience Award
Congratulations to Lucy Palmer, PhD student
in the Neuronal Signalling Laboratory, JCSMR who has been granted an
American Society for Neuroscience Graduate Student Travel Award. The award will assist Lucy to attend the Society for Neuroscience 36th
Annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, in October.
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| June 2006 | Visiting US
Graduate Students
The Academy of Science and NSF run a program called the US Summer Program in Australia, which allows US graduate
students to visit Australia for a period of 8 weeks to undertake a research project. Three postgraduate students involved in the program,
in Canberra for their orientations session, visited the JCSMR early today. They toured both the old and new JCSMR buildings with our own
postgraduate students Chantelle Dixon and Monique Youssoufian. | | |  |
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| March 2006 | Nobel
Laureate visits JCSMR
Nobel Laureate Dr J Robin Warren visited The John Curtin School of Medical Research to speak
informally with students at afternoon tea last Friday.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2005 was awarded
conjointly to Professor Barry Marshall and Emeritus Professor J Robin Warren "for their discovery of the bacterium
/Helicobacter pylori/ and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease"
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| February 2006 | University
Medal for JCSMR Honours Student
Congratulation to Patrick Scott, an Honours student from the Neuronal Network Laboratory,
JCSMR, who has been awarded an ANU University medal for his outstanding honours thesis entitled "Information transfer
at dynamic synapses: Effects of short-term plasticity" and his excellent undergraduate record.
Patrick was also
awarded the Sir Grafton Elliot Smith Award by the Australian Neuroscience Society at its annual meeting held in Sydney in January
2006 for "the best essay on a neuroscience topic by a student member of the society who has not yet submitted a
thesis for a doctorate". | | |  |
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| January 2006 | National Youth Science Forum students explore JCSMR
research
National Youth Science Forum students toured JCSMR labs during the first week of January, visiting the Viral Immunology
Group, Histology Laboratory, and the Cancer and Vascular Biology Group. Students also had the opportunity to speak with Professor Ada about
the importance of vaccination to public health. Each year the NSYF brings together 250 year 12 students from around Australia, New Zealand,
South Africa and Canada for a two week forum in Canberra where students are able to observe scientists in action and participate in
experiments in a research environment. More photos. A second group of students will visit the School on Thursday 19th and Friday 20th
January, 2006. | | |  |
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| December 2005 | Fellowship awarded to JCSMR student
Mr Todor Arsov in the Division of
Immunology & Genetics has been awarded the “Ruth Gani Memorial Travelling Fellowship for Human Genetics”
for 2005.
This Fellowship is named in memory of Ruth Gani, cytogeneticist at the Woden Valley
Hospital and a School Visitor in the Human Genetics Group, The John Curtin School of Medical Research. It is made available through
a generous donation from Professor Joe Gani. | | |  |
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| November 2005 | Fenner
Medal presented to Dr Allison Jones
Congratulations to Dr Allison Jones who has been awarded the prestigious Frank
Fenner Medal for the most outstanding PhD thesis submitted in The John Curtin School of Medical Research in 2004.
Dr Jones was a member of the Molecular Mechanisms Laboratory, Cancer and Vascular Biology Group in the Division of
Immunology and Genetics and was awarded the medal on the 30th November. Congratulations also goes to Emeritus Professor Frank
Fenner who was named as the ACT Senior Australian of the Year for his excellent career in microbiology and being
a world-renowned expert on pox-viruses. | | |  |
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| November 2005 | Dr Vaughan Barlow
presents seminar
As part of the JCSMR Seminar Series for 2005, Dr Vaughan Barlow, a former student with Dr Mark
Hulett's group, who is now with the Chemical/Life sciences team at Spruson & Ferguson Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys,
Sydney, presented his seminar "Escaping the bench - a career as a patent attorney" on November
8th. | | |  |
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| October 2005 | Travel Grant goes to Diabetes Researcher
Andrew Ziolkowski, from the Diabetes/
Transplantation Immunobiology Group, Division of Immunology and Genetics, was awarded a travel grant of $2,500 from the
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation to attend and present his research progress at the 8th Meeting of the Immunology of
Diabetes Society in Japan, Oct 6-9, 2005 | | |  |
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| September 2005 | Success for JCSMR
students at ComBio Conference
Congratulations to Melanie Morris from the Biomolecular Structure Laboratory and the Molecular
Genetics Group, and Shweta Singhal, from the Ubiquitin Laboratory, Division of Molecular Bioscience, who won poster
prizes at the ComBio Conference in Adelaide, Sept 26-29.
Melanie won a Biochemical Journal Poster Prize, and Shweta won an
ASBMB Poster Prize. Both are in the first year of their PhD. | | |  |
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| June 2005 | Hot Topics
in Medical Research prize
Congratulations to Owen Siggs, currently undertaking an Honours degree in the Immunogenomics
Laboratory, Division of Immunology and Genetics, JCSMR. Owen received first prize in the student poster session which followed
the Hot Topics afternoon earlier this week.
Owen’s poster was entitled:
Between
competence and deficiency: graded lesions in TCR signal transduction. Siggs OM, Miosge LA, Yates A, Liston A & Goodnow CC.
Our thanks to the Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology for sponsoring this event and
to Professor Frances Shannon for presenting the award. | | |  |
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| May 2005 | PhD student
receives Chinese Government Award
Congratulations to Xinxin Chen, PhD student in the Cytokine Gene Expression Laboratory,
Division of Molecular Bioscience, JCSMR.
Xinxin has received an award for excellence, presented by the Chinese
Government to a self-funded student studying outside China. Xinxin was presented with a certificate and cheque at a reception at
the Chinese Embassy in Canberra. Xinxin is investigating the role played by chromatin remodelling in cytokine gene
transcriptional regulation. | | |  |
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| February 2005 | JCSMR researchers receive poster prizes at Genome Conference
Karen Bunting of the Cytokine Gene Expression Group and Karl Brown of the Chromatin and Transcriptional
Regulation Group both won poster prizes at the 26th Annual Conference on the Organisation and Expression of the Genome in
Cowes Victoria held in February 2005. The titles of their posters were:
"A molecular and functional analysis of c-Rel in T cell gene activation" K. Bunting, S. Rao, T. Parks, F. Shannon and
"A dominant negative histone
variant H2A.Z effects gene expression during vertebrate development"
K.D. Brown, P. Ridgway, D. Rangasamy,
D.J. Tremethick | | |  |
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| February 2005 | JCSMR student receives Conference Poster Prize
Julia Ellyard has
won the student poster prize at the 17th Lorne Cancer Conference with her paper entitled
"The Role of
Heparin in Eotaxin-Mediated Eosinophil Recruitment: Important Consequences for the Development of TH2-Mediated Tumour
Immunotherapies".
Julia works in the Cancer and Vascular Biology Group under the supervision of Ljubov
Simson, Craig Freeman and Chris Parish. | | |  |
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| January 2005 | JCSMR
researcher receives New Investigator Award
Mandi deMestre of the Cancer and Vascular Biology Group has been awarded the
presitgious New Investigator Award from the Australasian Society for Immunology at the Annual December meeting in Adelaide
for her seminar entitled "Regulation and the potential role of heparanase in experimental autoimmune
encephalomyelitis". | | |  |
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| January 2005 | Year 12 students discover medical research at JCSMR
National Youth Science Forum students toured JCSMR labs during the first week of January, visiting the Ubiquitin
Laboratory, the Hearing and Synapse Laboratory, the Viral Immunology Group and our Histology Laboratory, and speaking with
Professor Ada about the importance of vaccination to public health. A second group of students visited the School on
Thursday 20 and Friday 21 January, 2005. | | |  |
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| January 2005 | JCSMR
students conferred degrees at recent Graduation
Congratulations to our graduating students. In addition to the graduates
pictured, Allison Jones, Bjoern Kampa, Nicole Rummery and Paul Warden-Hutton also attended the Conferring Ceremony. In other
news: Dr Lixin Rui has been awarded the CJ Martin Fellowship working with Dr Louis Staudt in NIH and Professor Chris Goodnow on
the project entitled "the Role of the NF-kB Pathway in Primary Mediastinal B Cell Lymphoma".
Dr Yang Wang has been awarded the CJ Martin Fellowship to work with Professor Donald Harn at Harvard School of Public Health and Dr
Guna Karupiah on a project entitled "Effect of innate immune responses in virus
control". | | |  |
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| November 2004 | Travel Prizes go to JCSMR students
Congratulations to Robert Wood, PhD student in the Molecular Mechanisms Laboratory, Division of Immunology and Genetics, JCSMR. Robert has been awarded a travel prize from the Australian Society for Immunology to attend the annual meeting at Adelaide in December. Also receiving a travel award to attend the Australian Society for Immunology conference was Daniel Eichner, PhD student in the Infection and Immunity Group, Division of Immunology, JCSMR. | | |  |
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