2022 Graduate Research Symposium

Central Clinical School's (CCS) annual postgraduate symposium aims to improve the visibility of students and their research projects on a larger scale and celebrate their achievements. PhD students throughout the Alfred Research Alliance (A+) precinct (including Baker & Burnet Institutes and CCS) have the opportunity to explain their research to peers and colleagues. By participating, they can foster collaborations, networking and a greater awareness of the ARA based expertise and research. Students can make either oral presentations, which are judged by a panel of senior academics and postdocs. Attractive monetary prizes are awarded for outstanding work.

2022 Symposium

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Winners

Oral presentation

  • 1st: Nicola Sergienko - Phosphoregulation of β-adrenergic receptor signalling by PP2A-B55α (Baker)
  • 2nd: Stephanie Anderson - Gene editing to cure sickle cell disease (ACBD)
  • 3rd: Fiona McCutcheon - Does manipulation of brain tissue-type Plasminogen Activator levels alter Alzheimer’s Disease outcome? (ACBD)
  • People's Choice: Lin (Kathy) Hsin - Accurate detection of house dust mite sensitisation in asthma and allergic rhinitis with a single Cytometric Basophil assay (CytoBas) (Immunology & Human Pathology)

Science Byte 

  • 1st: Jesse Mulder -  A Novel Model for Investigating the Regulation of Plasma Cell Survival (Immunology and Human Pathology)
  • 2nd: Aaron Jurrjens -  Disentangling the genetic regulation of lipids and atherosclerosis in humans and mice (Baker)
  • 3rd: Roxane Dilcher -  Biomarker interplay between CSF p-tau and tau-PET in Alzheimer’s disease and 4Rtauopathy (Neuroscience)
  • People's Choice: Jack Edwards -  High-dimensional panel design for spectral flow cytometric evaluation of T-cell reinvigoration by immune checkpoint blockade in melanoma. (Immunology and human pathology)

Poster presentation

  • 1st: Ali Dvorscek - B Cell Responses Are Shaped By The Amount, Affinity And Specificity Of Antigen-specific Antibody (Immunology and Human Pathology)
  • Equal 2nd: Christopher Chew & Elan L'Estrange-Stranieri. Their presentations were respectively, Early prognostic biomarkers in StevenJohnson’s Syndrome/Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis (Medicine); Lyn maintains T cell central tolerance by regulating medullary thymic epithelial cell homeostasis through kinase-independent pathways (Immunology and Human Pathology)
  • People's Choice: Koe Kodila - Gut Microbiome Depletion and Repeat Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Alters Perineuronal Nets and Social Behaviour in Adolescent Rat (Neuroscience)

Committee members

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