VIIN Young Investigator Symposium 2023
| Date | 9 November 2023 |
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On Thursday 9 November 2023, the VIIN Young Investigator Symposium is back, face-to-face!
In 2023, we are again delighted to be holding the YIS at the Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (MIPS). We thank MIPS for their kind support in hosting us.
The purpose of the Young Investigator Symposium this year is to provide students, RAs and postdocs a forum for networking, career development and scientific exchange. We hope it will provide you with an opportunity to keep in touch with colleagues, present your research, and develop your CVs.
Prizes will be awarded for best presentations.
All welcome - undergraduate and post-graduate students, research assistants, post-doctoral scientists from academic and industry.
Program Information
Allocations and instructions for presenters (28 September 2023): DOWNLOAD NOW
Preliminary Program (19 October 2023): DOWNLOAD NOW
Final program (3 November 2023): DOWNLOAD NOW
Keynote Speakers
We are delighted to announce that the keynote speakers for the VIIN Young Investigator Symposium in 2023 are:
Congratulations to this year's prize winners
Prizes for Best Oral Presentations
Winner – ECR: The winner of this prize receives an invitation to present the Hartland Oration at the Lorne Infection and Immunity conference in 2024.
Paula Cevaal, Peter Doherty Institute of Infection and Immunity, University of Melbourne for Potent, HIV-specific latency reversal through CRISPR activation delivered by lipid nanoparticles exhibiting a high efficiency of transfecting resting CD4+ T cells with minimal toxicity
Paige Skoko, Murdoch Children's Research Institute for Understanding persistence of Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 6B in Mongolia following vaccine introduction
Runner-Up – Research Assistant:
Sarah Amir Hamzah, Burnet Institute for Inflammatory profiles of vaginal Gardnerella vaginalis isolates from South African women with and without bacterial vaginosis
Runner-Up – Honours Student:
Natasha Dyson, University of Melbourne and Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research for An isothermal CRISPR-Cas12a point-of-care assay for rapid and sensitive detection of N. gonorrhoeae
Prizes for Best Posters
Samantha Matta, RMIT University, for the poster titled, Alteration of neuroimmune pathways rescues impaired intestinal permeability and behaviour in a mouse model of colitis
Alessia Hysa, Burnet Institute and University of Melbourne for the poster titled Defining the fine specificity of antibody responses to polymorphic and conserved epitopes of the lead malaria vaccine antigen: Plasmodium falciparum circumsporozoite protein
Devaki Pilapitiya, University of Melbourne and The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, for the poster title Mucosal delivery of self-assembling nanoparticle vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 using recombinant influenza virus vectors
Prize for Best Science Bites Presentation
William Clow, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research for his presentation on Modelling and Targeting Cytokine Storm in Dengue virus-infected Mice
People’s Choice Awards
Poster: Mitchell Trickey, Deakin University for Understanding the role of rodent malaria clag genes in new permeation pathway formation
Science Bites Presentations: Catherine Chen, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research for Long-lived anti-cytokine autoantibodies associated with post-COVID-19 sequalae
Oral Presentations: Paula Cevaal, Peter Doherty Institute of Infection and Immunity, University of Melbourne for Potent, HIV-specific latency reversal through CRISPR activation delivered by lipid nanoparticles exhibiting a high efficiency of transfecting resting CD4+ T cells with minimal toxicity
Best Question prizes
- Rifqa Fayaz, Deakin University
- Anurag Adhikari, La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science
Thank you to this year's sponsors
Thank you to this year's Organising Committee
Catarina Almeida, University of Melbourne (Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity)
Josh Bourne, Monash University (School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health)
Aaron Brice, Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness CSIRO
Ruby Dawon, Hudson Institute of Medical Research
Ella Johnston, La Trobe University (Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Microbiology)
Gabriela Khoury, Burnet Institute
Kevin Lee, University of Melbourne (Department of Medicine at Royal Melbourne Hospital)
San Lim, Hudson Institute of Medical Research
Stella Liong, RMIT University
Rhea Longley, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
Christophe Macri, University of Melbourne (Department of Biochemistry and Pharmacology)
Joyanta Modak, Deakin University
Melanie Neeland, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute
Linda Reiling, Burnet Institute
Stephany Sanchez, University of Melbourne (WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza)
Stephen Scally, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
Ghizal Siddiqui, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Caroline Soliman, University of Melbourne (Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity)
Praveena Thirunavukkarasu, Monash University (Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
Ryan Toh, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute
Jinxin Zhao, Monash University (Department of Microbiology)
Prizes
To sponsor a prize for the VIIN Young Investigator Symposium 2023, please contact VIIN Program Manager, Dr Rebecca Smith at info@viin.org.au
Sponsors
To exhibit or advertise at the VIIN Young Investigator Symposium 2023, please contact VIIN Program Manager, Dr Rebecca Smith at info@viin.org.au
Register now (Wednesday 11 July 2023 - Wednesday 1 November 2023)
Lab heads and senior researchers - please attend and support your Young Investigators, even if you can only join for a session or two!
