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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 ASI 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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Thursday October 10, 2024

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. ...
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Friday October 04, 2024

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 ...
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Tuesday October 01, 2024

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-breaking approaches are ...
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Friday September 06, 2024

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 ...
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Wednesday September 04, 2024

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 ...
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Wednesday September 04, 2024

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 ...
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Wednesday September 04, 2024

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 ...
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Wednesday September 04, 2024

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 ...
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Sunday September 01, 2024

Congratulations to Adrian Ilich 2023 ASI Career Advancement Awardee   We warmly congratulate Adrian Ilich winner of the 2023 ASI Career Advancement Award --   My name is Adrian, and I am a third year PhD student based at QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute. I completed my undergraduate degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Queensland before starting an MPhil in A/Prof Severine Navarro’s Mucosal Immunology Lab. After a year of study, I was nominated and successfully articulated my MPhil degree into a PhD as I ...
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Wednesday August 21, 2024

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) 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 funding disparities, research biases, publishing disparities, and access to mentorship and institutional support. Don't miss this wonderful ...
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Monday July 15, 2024

Congratulations to Kim O'Sullivan 2022 ASI Career Advancement Awardee   We warmly congratulate Kim O'Sullivan winner of the 2023 ASI Career Advancement Award --   I completed my undergraduate studies and Master’s Degree in Anatomy and Structural Biology at the University of Otago, New Zealand. Within these areas of study, the closest I came to any Immunology was a 2nd year Microbiology Unit that briefly covered the 5 classes of antibody. You could say I kind of “fell” into Immunology when in 2002 I joined the Autoimmune Kidney Disease ...
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Wednesday July 10, 2024

We warmly invite your applications for the ASI Awards - Round #4 (July-August). These are a major benefit to being an ASI member, so please check your eligibility now and start compiling your applications.
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Monday July 01, 2024

Congratulations to Danika Hill 2022 ASI Margaret Baird Awardee   We warmly congratulate Danika Hill winner of the 2022 ASI Margaret Baird Women in Immunology Award --   I lead the Precision Vaccinology Laboratory within the Department of Immunology at Monash University. Our research focuses on elucidating the cellular and molecular mechanisms that underpin antibody responses to vaccination and infection, with a particular emphasis on T follicular helper cells and the Germinal Centre response. Our research is focussed on  unraveling how immunity to Group A Streptococcus, malaria, influenza, ...
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Thursday June 20, 2024

Travel4Expertise – The Grant for Caregivers Applications close September 30th 2024 The opportunity to train in new techniques or analyses often requires researchers to travel to different institutes, cities or countries. These training visits can take weeks to months. While there are several opportunities for researcher to access travel and research funds to learn new techniques from other researchers (in labs, at workshops or courses), these opportunities may not be practical for those with carer duties. To promote equitable opportunities for research, ...
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Tuesday April 23, 2024

Congratulations to Leslie Dominguez Cadena 2023 ASI Career Advancement Awardee - Postgraduate Category   We warmly congratulate Leslie Dominguez Cadena Recipient of a 2023 ASI Career Advancement Award - Postgraduate Category --   As a recipient of an ASI Career Advancement Award in 2023, I want to express my deepest gratitude to the Australian and New Zealand Society for Immunology for their support of my education. I feel extremely fortunate and thankful to have been awarded with this honour. My curiosity, passion for learning, and desire to use knowledge for ...
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