Her presentation was awarded an Honourable Mention - one of only four prize winners at the conference!
Congratulation Nethmi! A very well deserved prize and a great outcome from your first ever conference.
Nethmi has won a prize for her poster presentation at the Australian C. elegans Symposium!!
Her presentation was awarded an Honourable Mention - one of only four prize winners at the conference! Congratulation Nethmi! A very well deserved prize and a great outcome from your first ever conference.
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The whole Neumann lab is attending the Australian C. elegans Symposium (ACeS) held at the Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland.
We are presenting our research across three talk (Joe, Seb, Michelle), and three posters (Ming, Simran, Nethmi), and Simran will be chairing a session. A wonderful opportunity to bring the Australian C. elegans community together to meet and share our science! The conference website is here and official hashtag is #ausWorms Our review on Mitofusin-2 has now been published in Biological Reviews!! It was published on the journals 'early view' section on Oct 25th.
Post from 22/09/2017: Our review article has been accepted by Biological Reviews!! Titled "Structure, Function, and Regulation of Mitofusin-2 in Health and Disease", this is a comprehensive review of our current knowledge of the mitochondrial fusion protein Mitofusin-2. We wrote this in collaboration with Michael Lazarou. This caps off an incredible couple of weeks for the Neumann lab, with this adding to publications accepted in PNAS and Cell Reports late last month. Congratulations Simran, the lead author on our review! Brent is attending the Students of Brain Research (SoBR) symposium today at the Melbourne Brain Centre. He is serving as an invited judge for the poster sessions.
More information on the symposium and SoBR can be found here. Brent has been invited to speak at the ComBio 2017 meeting held in Adelaide - see details of the conference here.
Brent's talk is entitled: "Phosphatidylserine 'save-me' signals drive functional recovery of severed axons in Caenorhabditis elegans", and covers much of the work that we recently had accepted for publication in PNAS. Brent has been invited to present his research at the Florey Institute for Neuroscience and Mental Health.
His talk is titled "Fuse it or lose: highly efficient repair of the nervous system through axonal fusion". In addition to his seminar, Brent is visiting potential collaborators at both the Murdoch Children's Research Institute and at the Florey. Hanadi's mini thesis entitled "MEC-17 overexpression leads to synaptic defects and activation of the DLK-1 neuronal remodelling program in C. elegans" has been Highly Commended in the Life Sciences category of The Undergraduate Awards Programme 2017!
This means that Hanadi's work is ranked within the top 10% of all global submissions - she is the only applicant from Australia to receive this award. This is a wonderful achievement by Hanadi and highlights here impressive potential as a young scientist. See here for more info on The Undergraduate Awards Programme and those shortlisted. Congratulations Hanadi!! Update August 25th.
Our paper has now been officially accepted in Cell Reports!! Brent has co-authored a paper that has been accepted in principle for publication in Cell Reports! Our results define how the lin-14 heterochronic gene (one responsible for controlling the timing of developmental processes) controls axonal degeneration in C. elegans. We found that interactions between an axon and it's surrounding environment is critical for preserving axonal structure throughout life. Interestingly, the function of the LIN-14 transcription factor is only required very early during development in order to preserve the function of the axon over the lifetime of the worms. This research provides fundamental insights into the cellular mechanisms needed to keep neuronal architecture, and therefore neuronal function, intact. Furthermore, this has implications for neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, motor neurone, and Charcot-Marie-Tooth diseases, in which axonal degeneration is a common hallmark. More information can be found on our publications page. Congratulations to Michelle, who today successfully completed her 12 month PhD milestone requirements. This involved writing a 6000 word literature review, a 2000 research report, and presenting a 20 minute seminar on her research.
Michelle is now officially confirmed as a PhD candidate! Tarika has been awarded three scholarships today!!
To support her during her PhD in the Neumann lab, Tarika has been awarded a Monash Graduate Scholarship (MGS), as well as a Monash International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (MIPRS). These scholarships cover the costs of the degree and provide a living allowance. In addition to these two awards, Tarika also received a Faculty Postgraduate Excellence Award. These are highly prestigious awards offered to the top two applicants in the scholarship round, as judged by academic merit and research potential. This award provides an additional living allowance for Tarika on top of the MGS. Congratulations Tarika! |
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