DEGREES AND AWARDS

Division of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

JE Dalziel PhD
Structure and function of the GABAA receptor

KW Ng PhD
The mechanism by which API binds to Chromatin

A Mould PhD
Mechanisms of Eosinophil Recruitment and Degranulation

SC Piller PhD
Structure function studies of virus protein R from human immunodeficiency virus-1

CL Tan PhD
Transcriptional regulation of the mouse interleukin-5 gene in T-lymphocytes

C-Y Xiao PhD
Regulation of nuclear import of SV40 large tumour antigen by phosphorylation

M Hadzantonis, BSc (First Class Hons and University Medal)
Regulation of anti-apoptotic gene expression in T-cells by the transcription factor NF-kB

R Khoury
Postgraduate award for presentation and content of a research paper (1999), Australian Society of Biophysics Meeting, QLD

Dr WA King
Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for postdoctoral study in Germany

L Simson
Best Poster (The Canberra Region Medical Foundation)

P Warden-Hutton
Student poster award (Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Annual Meeting, Gold Coast, September 1999)

Division of Immunology and Cell Biology

A Mamchak PhD
The role of the antigen signal in LPS-induced B cell activation

Y Xiong PhD
Immune modulation of allergic airways disease

N Gorgani PhD
Regulation of immune complex formation and clearance by histidine-rich glycoprotein

S Mahalingam PhD
Chemokines in viral infections

T Mettenmeyer PhD
"Nuclear events involved in the transcriptional control of HL-60 cell differentiation"

G Bartell MSc
The role of cytokines during T cell dependent B cell activation

C Christensen BSc (First Class Hons)
A mouse model for immunocontraceptive vaccine development

A Janssen BSc (First Class Hons)
Polyprotein processing at the Murray Valley encephalitis virus NS4A-4B junction

 
Dr C Freeman
Howard Florey Young Investigator Award (1999)

 

Division of Molecular Medicine

D Andrews PhD
Detection and analysis of Darwinian selection in the mitochondrial genome of simian primates

J U Flanagan PhD
Probing the molecular basis of substrate specificity and catalysis in the Theta Class glutathione transferases

W Srikusalanukul PhD
Modelling of lymphocyte migration in the peripheral lymphoid tissue

R Otway
Young Investigator Award (2nd Joint Meeting of the Leeds Castle Polyposis Group and the International Collaborative Group on HNPCC, Lorne, March 1999)

M Stevens
AMA prize for best presentation by a PhD student (The Canberra Hospital Annual Scientific Meeting, December 1999)

Dr C Wise
Frank Fenner medal for the most outstanding PhD thesis in JCSMR (1998)

Division of Neuroscience

CA Reid PhD
Mechanisms of transmitter release and synaptic plasticity at excitatory synapses in the hippocampus

G de Plater PhD
Fractionation, primary structural characterisation and biological activities of polypeptides from the venom of the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus).

S Sandow PhD
Development of sympathetic neuroreflector junctions in rat irideal anterioles

P Gaughwin (First Class Hons, University Medal)
Molecular cloning and characterization of a novel voltage gated calcium channel alpha1 subunit related to the retina-specific alpha1F (CACNA1F)