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Dec 2015.Indd Australasian Society for Immunology Inc. NEWSLETTER PP 100000910 ISSN 1442-8725 December 2015 Why the ASI Women's Initiative is important: Search images (google): 'SCIENCE GRADUATE' Contents Women in Science and the ASI Women’s Initiative: 3 Editorial 7 ICB Publication of the Year Award 8 President’s Column 9 Honorary Secretary’s News 10 New ICB Deputy Editors 11 2014 New Investigator Award Winner: Julia Marchingo 12 Obituary: Geoff Shellam 16 Jomar Life Research Poster Prize Winner: Luan Vu 18 Search images (google): Visiting Speaker Program 20 'PROFESSOR LECTURE' Councillors’ News 21 Upcoming Conferences 24 Travel Award Conference Reports 25 Publications List 29 ASI Inc. Newsletter December 2015 ASI Inc. COUNCIL Non-Voting Councillors: Newsletter Editor President Past President Ms Joanna Roberts Professor Christopher Goodnow Professor Dale Godfrey Ph: 64 6 357 0654 Garvan Institute Dept of Microbiology & Immunology Email: [email protected] 384 Victoria Street Peter Doherty Institute Darlinghurst NSW 2010 University of Melbourne Parkville Vic 3010 Journal Editor Ph: 61 2 9295 8516 Ph: 61 3 8344 6831 Dr Gabrielle Belz Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Ph: 61 3 9345 2544 Email: [email protected] Honorary Secretary Honorary Treasurer A/Prof. Stuart Berzins Dr John Stambas Visiting Speakers Co-ordinator CRN Section, School of Health Sciences AAHL, CSIRO Deakin Collaborative Lab. Dr Joanna Kirman Federation University Australia Private Bag 24 Ph: 64 3 479 7712 Mt Helen Vic 3352 East Geelong Vic 3220 Email: [email protected] Ph: 61 3 5320 2039 Ph: 61 3 5227 5740 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Day of Immunology Co-ordinator Dr Claerwen Jones Deputy Treasurer Ph: 61 3 8344 9595 Dr Kim Jacobson Email: [email protected] Monash University 15 Innovation Walk Meeting Co-ordinator Clayton Vic 3800 Dr Susanne Heinzel Email: [email protected] Ph: 61 3 9345 2609 Email: [email protected] Branch Councillors New South Wales Victoria & Tasmania Council Member of IUIS Dr Mainthan Palendira Dr Daniel Gray Professor Alan Baxter Ph: 61 2 9565 6211 Ph: 61 3 9345 2497 Ph: 61 7 4781 6265 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Queensland South Australia & Northern Territory FIMSA Councillor Dr Kristen Radford Dr Cara Fraser Professor Alan Baxter Ph: 61 7 3443 7638 Ph: 0422 903 093 Ph: 61 7 4781 6265 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Western Australia Australian Capital Territory Honorary Archivist: Dr Andrew Currie Dr Anselm Enders Dr Judith Greer Ph: 61 8 9360 7426 Ph: 61 2 6125 7605 Ph: 61 7 3346 6018 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] New Zealand Dr Roslyn Kemp Project Manager Administrative Correspondence Ph: 64 3 479 7708 Miss Sarah Fardy Ms Judi Anderson Email: [email protected] Ph: 61 3 5227 5794 / 0413 917 990 ASI Inc. Secretariat Email: [email protected] PO Box 7108 Upper Ferntree Gully Vic 3156 Ph: 61 3 9756 0128 ICI2016 Councillor Email: [email protected] Professor Jose Villadangos Ph: 61 3 9035 7684 Email: [email protected] 2 ASI Inc. Newsletter December 2015 WOMEN IN SCIENCE AND THE ASI WOMEN’S INITIATIVE THE IMPORTANCE OF MENTORING Roslyn Kemp [email protected] Meghan Groome recently defi ned mentoring Sponsorship as “outsiders becoming insiders”1. The Mentoring provides support and advice support and advice provided by mentors – sponsorship takes this one step further. A has been shown to have a major effect on mentor provides details of an opportunity the careers of everybody, but particularly to a mentee; a sponsor will provide the for women. The National Research Council, opportunity specifically to the mentee. National Academy of Sciences committee Sponsors tend to be senior scientists with in charge of Gender Differences recently power and infl uence, and the ability to showed that female assistant professors actively promote their mentee5. Women are with mentors had 68% probability of much less likely to receive sponsors or to grant funding versus 93% of women with have sponsors develop from a mentoring mentors2. Mentored women and men gain relationship than men. ASI has a female higher salaries and more upward mobility expertise database with a list of women and than those without mentors3. How can we their specialist subjects. The purpose of this be sure that women receive the mentoring database is to provide an easily searchable list they need? of women who can contribute to conferences, panels or reviews – that is, a potential list of Informal mentors tend to select women who could be sponsored. mentees that they view as younger Roslyn Kemp has worked at several versions of themselves … Actions international institutes and has realised that 1. Organizations must include formal there aren’t many women in them. Informal versus Formal Mentoring mentoring programs, but also provide Formal mentoring programs have been advice and training on how to mentor adopted by many organizations (including effectively. Organizations need to 4. Online mentoring services exist for those ASI) and are a valuable contribution to recognize the benefits of informal with limited options – become a mentor providing support to women who lack mentoring and create situations that if you can; acquire mentors from a range informal mentoring opportunities. However, allow these relationships to develop. of expertise and seniority. these programs are not a replacement for This may involve social interactions with informal mentoring relationships, which other departments or allowing mentors References are much more diffi cult for women to and mentees to self-select rather than 1. Groome, M; 2012; Science mentoring: obtain in careers dominated by men. be placed together by a program co- mentoring women in science; Nature. Informal mentoring relationships develop ordinator. com Blogs (http://blogs.nature.com/ soapboxscience/tell-a-friend?id=2449) spontaneously, and are usually based on … is important to avoid constantly 2. Bonetta, L; 2010; Reaching gender equity in mutual identifi cation, perceived competence science: The importance of role models and 4 and interpersonal comfort . People naturally selecting the same junior scientist mentor; AAAS Science (doi: 10.1126/science. form relationships with people they enjoy for opportunities of career opms.r1000084) both working with, and with whom they development … 3. Willemsen, T; 2011; How mentoring can help enjoy a personal relationship – this is often women scientists; SciDevNet (http://www. built around similar hobbies, families or 2. Senior scientists and leaders need to value scidev.net/global/capacity-building/opinion/ extracurricular activities. how-mentoring-can-help-women-scientists- sponsorship and apply it equally across 1.) those people in their fi eld. It is important 4. Ragins, BR; Cotton, JL; 1999; Mentor Informal mentors tend to select mentees that to avoid constantly selecting the same functions and outcomes: A comparison of they view as younger versions of themselves, junior scientist for opportunities of career men and women in formal and informal and the relationship therefore benefi ts both development, but to consider others who mentoring relationships; Journal of Applied participants, as mentors perceive themselves may contribute or benefi t equally well. Psychology; 84(4):529-550 contributing to the next generation of 5. Travis, EL; Doty, L; Helitzer, DL; 2013; 4 scientists . In turn, informal mentees select 3. Peer mentoring and mentoring circles Sponsorship: a path to the academic medicine 4 mentors who they see as role models . are also effective – junior scientists c-suite for women faculty?; Academic Medicine 88(10) 1414-1417 and students can instigate their own networks and events, with support from organizations. 3 ASI Inc. Newsletter December 2015 ASI WOMEN’S INITIATIVE – FROM AN EARLY-CAREER RESEARCHER Julia Prier [email protected] Gender imbalance within Immunology female scientists furthering their careers exists in Australasia despite many attempts with overseas post doctoral experience. to close the gap. Despite this obvious case This could aid in the return of our highly for merit, only 4/28 of the prestigious trained researchers. Another aspect of Burnett Orations at the Annual ASI the ASI Women’s Initiative that I really Meetings have been given by woman, enjoy is its use as a forum to celebrate the with Professor Barbara Fazekas de St successes of female immunologists within Groth being the fi rst in the past ten years. Australasia, of which there are many! To further illustrate this point, in 2014, 63% of all the NHMRC’s early career I really enjoy (the) forum to fellowship applications were by women, celebrate the successes of female yet this fell to just 11% for the most senior and experienced fellowships, refl ecting the Immunologists within Australasia relative lack of females at senior positions Julia Prier is fi nishing her graduate studies and hopes to begin her post doctoral within science. The Women’s Initiative discussion forum, and the Women’s Initiative meeting held at experience overseas next year. As a early career researcher, it is ASI, bring awareness to these issues and encouraging to report the ASI Women’s provide an open and welcoming environment meetings. The ASI Women’s Initiative is a Initiative has taken steps to solve this to discuss them in. Acceptance of the issues positive step to not only provide early career issue by developing a mentorship program is necessary to move forward in promoting researchers with inspirational role models, that suggests mentors for young female equity, which will in turn increase research but also to ensure the future representation scientists who wish to advance their careers productivity.
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