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Women's Initiative 2018 ASI NEWS DECEMBER 2018 Women’s INITIATIVE 2018 WRAP UP P12 10 19 CONTACT US AUSTRALASIAN SOCIETY FOR ASI2018 ANNUAL 2017 JARED PURTON IMMUNOLOGY INC. SCIENTIFIC MEETING AWARD RECIPIENT ASI INC. SERETARIAT appROXIMATELY 420 Dr Arabella Young, NHMRC PO BOX 1371, DELEGATES ATTENDED THE CJ Martin Overseas Fellow MITCHAM NORTH 3132 ASI2018 ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC PH: 03 8393 9388 MEETING IN PERTH immunology.org.au/contact-us 2018 CTI CiteScore 3.55 Cutting-edge advances in biomedical research Editor-in-Chief: Rajiv Khanna Clinical & Translational Immunology is an open access, online-only journal, seeking to cover basic, translational and clinical studies in all aspects of human immunology, including experim ASI members enjoy a discount for publishing in Clinical & Translational Immunology Submit your next manuscript to Clinical & Translational Immunology and enjoy these bene�ts of publishing with Wiley Find out more at www.wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/cti Catch up on recent Special Features from Clinical & Translational Immunology, including: CTI Special Feature on Endoplasmic Reticulum and Oxidative Stress in Immunopathology Special Feature Coordinator: Sumaira Z Hasnain Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress and related molecular programs, which occur ASI NEWSLETTER DECEMBER 2018 CONTENTS PRESIdent’S REPORT ......................................... 4 WA Branch Report ...............................................25 Susanne Heinzel Connie Jackaman, WA branch Councillor SECRETARy’S REPORT ........................................ 7 NSW Branch Report ............................................26 Elissa Deenick Helen McGuire, NSW branch Councillor TREasurer’S REPORT ....................................... 8 Visiting Speaker Program updates .................. 28 Kim Jacobson Stuart Mannering, VSP Coordinator 2019 INCOMING PRESIdent’S ADDRESS ......... 9 THE IUIS CORNER .............................................. 29 John Fraser J. Alejandro Lopez ASI2018 ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC MEETING ..........10 TRAVEL REPORTS .............................................. 30 Connie Jackaman and Scott Fisher Keystone Symposia on B cells, Germany ........ 30 Imogen Moran Women’S INITIATIVE 2018 WRAP-UP .............12 Vanessa Bryant Toll 2018: Editing Innate Immunity, Portugal ..32 Kaiwen Chen GENDER EQUITY AND INCLUSION POLICY ..... 14 for speakers and session chairs at ASI events 5th European Congress of Immunology, The Netherlands ...................................................33 MEET THE ICB EDITORIAL TEAM ......................16 Ann Ly Anne La Flamme Gordon Research Conference on Protein 2017 JARED PURTON AWARD RECIPIENT .......19 Processing, Trafficking and Secretion, USA ....34 Dr Arabella Young Natalie Borg 2017 GORDON ADA SENIOR AWARD 17th Meeting of the Society for RECIPIENT - KATHERINE KEDZIERSKA ...........21 Natural Immunity (NK2018), USA ......................36 Catherine Somerville Fernando Souza Fonseca Guimaraes BRANCH REPORTS ............................................ 24 PUBLICATIONS OF INTEREST ........................... 37 SA/NT Branch Report .........................................24 Our Sustaining Members Iain Comerford, SA & NT branch Councillor AUSTRALasiaN SOCIETY NZ Branch Report ................................................25 FOR IMMUNOLOGY INC. ................................... 40 Ries Langley, NZ Councillor 9 16 30 2019 INCOMING MEET THE ICB KEYSTONE SYMPOSIA PRESIdent’s ADDRESS EDITORIAL TEAM ON B CELLS, GERMANY John Fraser Anne La Flamme Imogen Moran intoduces the new Editorial Board members 3 PRESIdent’S REPORT ASI NEWSLETTER DECEMBER 2018 PRESIdent’s rePORT SuSanne Heinzel, out-going ASI president This is my last newsletter column as ASI president. As I’m writing this, finalised. I’ve just returned from the ASI conference in Perth. And what a fabulous But we need to look further how meeting that was. we can support the membership. Last year we set aside $200k and The meeting was outstanding on Our financial position allows us asked membership for ideas, every level, the organisers have to investigate ways how we can however this hasn’t delivered done a brilliant job, the venue better support our members. many concrete plans or concepts. worked really well, the science We have already doubled the What has emerged though was outstanding and I liked the amount of travel bursaries and throughout the years is that mix of topics, and it was great international travel awards members sometimes approach to catch up with old friends and and hopefully this will allow us with ideas that we would colleagues, meet new people most of our student members like to support but don’t have and peers, learn new things and to obtain one of these during an appropriate funding scheme get new ideas. ASI meetings their postgraduate studies. For for. I’m therefore very pleased to are about so much more than the Perth meeting we gave out announce that we have created just hearing about the latest 45 bursaries in total, >60% for a ‘special ideas fund’ where advances in Immunology and students and >50% for postdocs. members can apply for financial Connie and Scott and their team We have also created the travel support for ideas and schemes have really delivered a perfect award for women to attend to that benefit our membership that environment for that. the annual meeting, which has are not covered elsewhere. The become a successful scheme. Overall, what a year this has details are currently finalised and For the first time we were been. I’m very pleased to will be announced in the next few supporting child care facilities at report that we have once again months. our annual meeting. While the exceeded the magic number I’m also very excited to announce uptake was relatively low, this of 1000 members! This is due that we will run the inaugural is only the start and I hope this to no small part to our General ASI advanced training course in will only grow over time, when Manager Tyani Chan and her parents become more aware of tireless efforts working through the option to bring their children. our database and the renewal We have already doubled the A more detailed report on this system that she inherited and an ‘ASI-Creche’ will be in this (or the amount of travel bursaries and active membership drive. Around next) ASI newsletter. We have international travel awards and a quarter of our members are restructured our Special Interest hopefully this will allow most new to the society and this is a Groups and have set aside funds wonderful reassurance that ASI of our student members to for SIG events. The details on and our programs are received obtain one of these during their how the SIGs can apply for well in the community. postgraduate studies. these funds are currently being 4 PRESIdent’S REPORT ASI NEWSLETTER DECEMBER 2018 June 2019 (if all goes to plan). excellent position to lead the way I was able to visit some branches The course will be held at the by ensuring that we are not only at their branch retreats or other Illuka retreat, Red Hill, VIC (yes, applying these policies to our occasions. The enthusiasm of the that is amongst beautiful scenery own meetings, but to any event and very near to some lovely that is supported by ASI. branch committees to support wineries) will run over 3 nights their members (particularly Overall I think we are in a very and is aimed at ASI early career good shape and have some students and early career members (advanced PhD and exciting new schemes and members) is wonderful to see. Masters students and early career initiatives in place. Attending the and early career members) is post-docs). The theme for the Perth meeting really drove home wonderful to see. Thanks to first course is ‘Ageing and the to me once again what a great Connie Jackman, Ian Cockburn immune system’ and we will send society the ASI is, I’m so proud and Iain Comerford as outgoing out more details soon. Please of the culture and every single branch councillors. All of spread the word and look out for person in ASI, it is such an honour you have led your respective the announcements. to be part of it. branches brilliantly over the past Given our location and the Immunology in Aus and NZ is 3 years. current funding situation it is highly regarded throughout the I would also like to extend special critical to build relationship world, our visitors from overseas thanks to our non-voting council. with other societies. These love to come here and interact Firstly Vanessa Bryant, who really collaborations generally greatly with the members of the society. moved the Women’s Initiative increase the potential to apply Our annual meeting is viewed forward, Meredith O’Keeffe, for funding, build CVs and often highly in the world and those who did a fantastic job advising enhance research outputs. We speakers who come for the first the LOCs on the meetings and have been approached by other time keep telling us how special Laura MacKay, who did such a societies in the past (i.e. from (in a good way, they assure me) brilliant job on FIMSA council that Brazil and Singapore) and have the meeting and our culture is. she was recently elected FIMSA an existing ongoing program with They love the collegiality and president! Congratulations to the Germans via the DGfI-ASI good humour, the quality of Laura! First female and I think workshop. We are investigating a the science, the Burnet Oration also one of the youngest FIMSA session at the AAI meeting 2020 and Foundation Lectures and presidents in FIMSA history! through our journals. The BSI is the overall atmosphere. This also very interested to build a is only possible through the I want to take this opportunity joint program and I would highly fantastic people that make up too to give my very special encourage everybody to actively our membership. Such culture thanks to our outgoing treasurer seek new interactions with other doesn’t just happen, it needs to Kim Jacobson. Kim became societies. be nurtured and I would like to treasurer in 2016 before ICI, when we still didn’t know how We have developed strong thank all members of the society ICI would pan out. That was policies on gender equity for for contributing to this. So much very brave of her.
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