Congratulations to our recently completed PhD students Aislin Meehan and Andris Ellims!

Congratulations to two of our PhD students who have recently been awarded their degrees.

Aislin Meehan

Aislin's thesis was entitled "Investigating the function of natural killer cells during Immunological responses following human lung transplantation" and her supervisors were A/Prof Glen Westall, Dr Nicole Mifsud and A/Prof Tom Kotsimbos (Department of Allergy, Immunology and Respiratory medicine).

Andris Ellims

Andris' thesis was entitled "Ventricular remodelling in cardiomyopathy - impact on ventricular physiology and cardiovascular outcomes". Andris's thesis was completed through the Department of Medicine. Andris was supervised by Associate Professor Andrew Taylor, Head of Clinical Imaging at BakerIDI.

Well done to our PhD graduates! 

HDR news: student profile - Trish Veitch

Trish Veitch is a Masters student, enrolled in the Masters in Biomedical Science Part 1. She is supervised by Dr Jane Muir, Department of Gastroenterology. Her Masters looks at the role of prebiotic fibre in relation to wellbeing, but also gut health, concentrating on the high prebiotic health fibre foods and looking at wholefood sources, rather than supplements. In a previous life, she was a professional chef.
http://www.med.monash.edu.au/cecs/education/profiles/veitch.html

PhD news

PhD student profile

Emma Tavender is a PhD student in the Department of Surgery and at the National Trauma Research Institute. Her research is based on looking at how to improve the management of mild head injured patients in the emergency department. Emma's supervisors are Dr Denise O’Connor and Prof Russell Gruen. See more: web page

PhD news

PhD profile: Nicholas Lam on how to regrow damaged heart muscle

Nicholas Lam

Nick Lam has just completed his PhD thesis, which was investigating regrowing damaged hearts with muscle, instead of the body's own process of filling holes with scar tissue, the physiological equivalent of polyfilla. The title of his PhD is “Cardiac regeneration: effective nerve growth factor”. Basically it’s about the effect of a protein, called 'nerve growth factor', on a damaged heart. Nick was based in the Heart Failure Research Group at Baker IDI with one of his supervisors, Professor David Kaye. His other supervisor was Professor Nadia Rosenthal from Monash University. For more, see his profile.

Our PhD students volunteer for 29 April Day of Immunology activities with high school students

This year, four PhD students from the CCS Department of Immunology have volunteered for the task of demonstrating at the Day of Immunology presentations held at the Gene Technology Access Centre on Monday 29 April . We would like to thank Maria Demaria, Jodie Abramovitch, Tim Gottschalk and Erika Duan for their generous gift of time, expertise and enthusiasm. Hopefully these high school students will be enraptured by immunology and elect to study with us!
Photo: Sir Gus Nossal speaking with characteristic enthusiasm on a previous Day of Immunology event.