Congratulations to CIIC Group Leader Dr Elise Pelzer on her promotion to QUT Senior Lecturer. As a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and Associate Fellow (Indigenous), Dr Pelzer has a keen interest in improving the contextual relevance of the microbiology and infection control content that she teaches. Dr Pelzer recently…
Great to see CIIC @QUTImmunology Dr Samantha Dando, group leader of the Neuroimmunology and Infection team, awarded a QUT Faculty of Health EMCR Enabler Grant 2021. Many here at the QUT Centre for Immunology and Infection Control are excited about Sam’s research studying brain macrophages and their immune responses of human to…
Good on you Centre for Immunology and Infection Control Postdoc Dr Candice Lee who has recently been awarded both an Arthritis Australia Project Grant for her project “Understanding immunobiology of IL-23/Il-17 pathway for treatment of inflammatory diseases” and a QUT Faculty of Health Enabler Grant 2021…
The Reproductive Infection and Immunity Team, led by Professor Ken Beagley and Dr Alison Carey, along with their collaborator, Asssociate Professor Karla Hutt of Monash University, has just been awarded an NHMRC Ideas grant to research the ability of Chlamydia to infect and damage the ovary, which has never been investigated. The…
The Experimental Rheumatology team, led by Associate Professor Tony Kenna, has just been awarded an NHMRC Ideas grant to fund research that will better define the role of T cells in the common inflammatory arthritis disease Ankylosing spondylitis. Ankylosing spondylitis affects the joints of the spine and pelvis. Results from this…
A/Prof Makrina Totsika was invited to be an Editorial Board Member for Nature Research Journal Communications Biology. Dr Francesca Frentiu was Appointed as Global Grant Assessor for the Royal Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene…
Prof. Flavia Huygens Presented at the DMTC Annual Conference, 11-12 March 2020 and was awarded best oral presentation at the conference. Prof. Janet Davies was an expert witness in the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Health, Aged Care and Sport, Public Hearing for Parliamentary Inquiry on Allergies and Anaphylaxis…
Dr. Francesca Frentiu has been appointed as Editorial Advisor for Transactional of Royal Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Prof. Flavia Huygens was awarded “Best project leadership” award for exemplary professional conduct in support of DMTC objectives…
Dr. Emily Bryan was awarded Best New Investigator Award at the International Society for Immunology Reproduction meeting helld in Nara, Japan, 12-16 November 2019. Badal (Randika) Yapa was selected as a finalist in the VC’s Awards in Student as Partner category…
Postdoctoral fellow Dr. Xiaodong Huang presented her work at the QIMRB ECR seminar series on the 8th of November 2019. Jessica O’Callaghan presented work from her PhD at the QIMR-B ECR seminar series on the 15th of November 2019…
Dr. Francesca Frentiu was: Appointed as Chair for Assessment Panel for Advance Queensland Engaging Science Grants. Invited to deliver a career development workshop for women by the Society for Systematic Biology Australia. Participated in an invitation-only NHMRC Workshop on Climate Change and Health in Australia…
Prof. Ken Beagley’s Koala Chlamydia rapid test was reported in: Scimex newsfeed PhysOrg QUT news…