MBS Bulletin

Congratulations to Associate Professor Grant Booker who has received a research grant for 2010 from the Cancer Council of South Australia for his project “Antagonists of Gankyrin as anti-cancer agents”.

John Carver, Acting Head

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF OUR NHMRC WINNERS!

Congratulations for successful project grant funding for 2010 go to Dan Peet, Anne Chapman-Smith, Murray Whitelaw, Keith Shearwin, Ian Dodd, James Paton, David Ogunniyi, Rob Richards, Louise O’Keefe, Briony Forbes, Peter Hoffmann, John Wallace, Mike Nordstrom, John Semmler, and to our affiliates Yeesim Khew-Goodall, Stuart Pitson, Ashley Blackshaw, and Stuart Brierley.

In addition, a Senior Research Fellowship has been awarded to Michael Beard, and a Career Development Award to a Microbiology & Immunology affiliate, Michele Grimbaldeston.

Congratulations to all the awardees.

John Carver

CONGRATULATIONS to the following who have been awarded ARC Discovery Project grants for three years for funding to commence in 2010:

Professor Richard Ivell - project:  “Non-classical steroid signalling through SF-1 responsive genes:  a key mechanism in environmental endocrine disruption, cancer, and aging”

Professor Shaun McColl - project:  “Structural and functional characterisation of PI3Kgamma, uniquely activated by p101″

A/Prof. Murray Whitelaw & Dr. Dan Peet - project:  “Single minded 1 in neuron development and satiety signalling”

In addition, Dr. Adrienne Paton was a CI on a successful application from Monash University - project:  “Evolution of AB5 toxins”

John Carver

CONGRATULATIONS to the following who have been awarded grants by the Channel 7 Children’s Research Foundation of SA Inc. in the 2010 grant round:

Prof. Andrea Yool, Head of the Discipline of Physiology, who has been awarded $64,000 for her project, “The role of the brain water channel Aquaporin-4 in development and epilepsy”.

Dr. Chris McDevitt, Paton Lab, Microbiology & Immunology, who has been awarded $45,000 for his project, “The role of manganese in the virulence of pathogenicity of Pseudomonas aeruginosa”.

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CONGRATULATIONS also to the following PhD students who have been awarded Postgraduate Travelling Fellowships from the Faculty of Health Sciences Research Committee:

Kristen Georgiou, Physiology, Cory Xian’s lab, Sansom Institute

Scott Copley, Physiology, David Wilson’s lab

Thomas Wycherley, Physiology, Brinkworth/Clifton Group, CSIRO

The awards assist students to present at an international conference and visit research laboratories overseas.

John Carver, Acting Head