The runner-up Buck Immunology award was presented to Emily Waugh on July 1st 2011 for coming second equal in the student oral presentation competition at the New Zealand Australasian Society for Immunology Branch Meeting 2011. Emily's presentation was titled "MNV and the acquired immune response". Emily is a PhD student in Professor Vernon Ward's lab.
Congratulations to Michael Harrington and Julia Prier who both received Highly Commended Awards for their 2010-11 Summer Student Research Reports. Julia's project " TCR-dependent, pSTAT5-mediated Compensation of pS6K Signalling in Naïve CD8 T Cells" was performed in Roslyn Kemp's lab and Michael's project "Antibiotic resistance in a diarrhoea-causing microbe" was supervised by Dr Heather Brooks.
Congratulations to Clare Burn for winning the Otago Medical School Research Society student speaker awards that were held May 18th, 2011. Clare completed a summer studentship with Merilyn Hibma looking at human papillomavirus virus-like particles and their potential as gene delivery vectors in the skin.
Dr Heather Brooks was named the 2010 Otago School of Medical Sciences Distinguished Academic Teacher in the School's awards ceremony held yesterday afternoon. Heather teaches in the Medicine course (where last year she was again named the best Med 2 and Med 3 lecturer), the Medical Laboratory Science course and also our very own Microbiology and Immunology papers.
Congratulations to PhD students Zabeen Lateef and Stephanie Win who are the joint winners of the 2010 Virology Theme Prize for the Best Paper.
Students from the Department of Microbiology and Immunology enjoyed success at the recent Australasian Society for Immunology (ASI) conference in Perth, Australia.
Dr Judith Bateup recently visited James Hargest High School in Southland and Fiordland College in Te Anau as part of our High School outreach programme. The year 11 and year 13 classes enjoyed a hands-on programme looking at the “unseen world” of microorganisms on their teeth. This programme uses high-powered oil-immersion microscopy that is usually not available in secondary schools. As part of the outreach programme last year Judith visited schools in the Central Otago region and next year North Otago schools are on the agenda.
Microbiology and Immunology's Head of Department Professor Frank Griffin has been awarded the Royal Society of New Zealand's Pickering Medal, the country's top award for achievement in technology - the first time this has been won by an Otago University researcher. To read more...
After some 800 days of construction the Microbiology and Immunology building was officially re-commissioned in a ceremony on Friday July 9th 2010.
Congratulation to Michael on receiving the SSM Encouragement Award which 'is given to young investigators in the field of microbiology for achievements that are outstanding in terms of their originality and particular scientific value."
http://www.swissmicrobiology.ch/Framesets/fr_ssm_award.htm
