Faculty of 1000 selects Department of Immunology Leukemia article

Post publication peer

review acknowledgement

Department of Immunology research on chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) has been recommended by the Faculty of 1000 as being of special significance in its field. The reviewer, Dr Philippe Saas, writes,  "these data may explain the vulnerability of CLL patients to viral infections and provide therapeutic approaches (Flt3L plus CpG ODN or anti-TNF plus anti-TGF-beta antibodies) to restore PDC number and PDC capacity to produce type I IFN in peripheral lymphoid tissues." References:

Media mentions

28/04/2014 Associate Professor Edwina Wright, Department of Infectious Diseases, commented on HIV prevention. 

Gay News Network

http://gaynewsnetwork.com.au/news/new-community-forum-on-hiv-prevention-13665.html

02/05/2014 Adjunct Associate Professor Steve Ellen, Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre, discusses aiding and abetting suicide in terminal illness.

SBS, World News Australia

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2014/05/01/comment-aiding-and-abetting-suicide-terminal-illness

The Conversation
http://theconversation.com/aiding-and-abetting-suicide-in-terminal-illness-26095

Staff news

Welcome to:

• Mrs Angela Vitali, Immunology Alfred Hospital
• Dr Anita Gamvrellis, Aust Centre for Blood Diseases
• Dr Daniel Fineberg, Undergraduate Teaching Alfred Hospital
• Ms Simone Peters, Gastroenterology

For new staff, there is a CCS Staff induction portal - all your CCS who, where, what, why, how questions answered.

Farewell to:

• Mr Damien Saulep-Easton, Immunology Alfred Hospital
• Dr Fiona Brown, Aust Ctr for Blood Diseases

Other news: Flu tracking

Flu tracking

Flutracking is about to kick off again for 2014! All responses confirmed that 2013 was a mild flu year. Please help the collection of data:

https://www.flutracking.net/Join

Flutracking would really like to recruit another 1,000 people to help track influenza around Australia. They currently have 16,000 Flutrackers. It entails 10 seconds per week to help us track flu and receive a weekly flu report and flu map. Find out more at:

Photo of the week: The mathematics of diabetes

Photo: Skai Juice

Q: Bob has 36 candy bars. He eats 29. What does he have now?
A: Diabetes. Bob has diabetes.
Photo from the Facebook page of a chef, Skai Juice, based in Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic. Health, not math, is the real answer here - well done, T.C. Hale!
For Central Clinical School photo galleries, see:

• CCS Intranet orGoogle+ Page

See a selection of CCS images using Pinterest. Please view and/or follow at http://pinterest.com/CCSMonash/central-clinical-school-monash-university/.

Events calendar

What's on for this week

Mon Apr 28 -Tue Apr 29 9:00 AM ► Lung Health Education Program 2014 Mon Apr 28 -Tue Apr 29 All day ► Day of immunology Tue Apr 29 11:00 AM ► ACBD/Dept of Medicine seminar: Karla Hutt 12:30 PM ► PhD Midcandidature review - Ms Louise Rowntree Thu May 1 10:30 PM ► "Behind the Scope" seminar Fri May 2 12:00 PM ► Haematology Translational and Educational Meetings (HaTEM)

Forthcoming events:

Mon May 5	9:30 AM	►	Immunology 2014 Master Class
Tue May 6	3:30 PM	►	Confirmation of PhD Candidature - Mr Paddy Dempsey
	4:00 PM	►	Confirmation of PhD candidature seminar - Mr Antony Kaspi
Wed May 7 - Fri May 9	9:00 AM	►	Lung Health Education Program 2014 - Respiratory Course
Wed May 7	12:00 PM	►	Clinical Pathology Review (CPR)

Congratulations!

Dr Elizabeth Gardiner receives Distinguished Visiting Fellowship from University of Birmingham

Dr Elizabeth Gardiner, Australian Centre for Blood Diseases (ACBD), is the recipient of a Distinguished Visiting Fellowship from the University of Birmingham, UK. She will take up this one month visiting fellowship in May, 2014 at the Centre for Cardiovascular Sciences, Institute of Biomedical Research, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, UK. Her host is Professor Steve Watson, an international leader in the field of platelet biology. Read more »

Immunology PhD graduate Christopher Chan awarded VC Commendation for Doctoral Thesis Excellence

Dr Christopher Chan

Congratulations to Dr Christopher Chan who has received a Vice-Chancellor's Commendation for Doctoral Thesis Excellence for his PhD thesis. Christopher was a PhD student in the Department of Immunology who completed his thesis in 2013. He did his research at the Peter MacCallum Hospital under the supervision of adjunct staff members Prof Mark Smyth and Dr Daniel Andrews.  The title of Christopher's thesis was "Mechanisms of NK cell-mediated regulation of inflammation and cancer". 

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