Grand Rounds 12 November: PREVENTING DEPRESSION IN LATER LIFE: HOW SHOULD WE DO IT?

Department of Psychiatry at Monash University, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health presents Professor Osvaldo Almeida

Thursday 12 November, 11.30-12.30pm, Lecture Theatre 3, MMC Clayton
Light lunch provided.

Osvaldo P. Almeida is the Professor of Geriatric Psychiatry at the University of Western Australia, as well as the Director of Research of the WA Centre for Health & Ageing. He was born and brought up in Brazil, but completed his postgraduate training at the Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, UK. He has been living and working in Australia since 1998. During this time, his research has focused on the identification and modification of risk factors associated with poor mental health outcomes in later life, particularly depression and cognitive decline. To date, he has published over 300 original research papers, as well as numerous book chapters, books, reports and scientific abstracts. His h-index is 62 and his work has received nearly 14000 citations to date.

Centre of Inflammatory Disease (CID) Seminar- TODAY:"TLRs and Quantiferon in TB-an update on a pilot translational study at Monash Health"

The next CID Seminar will be held on Tuesday 10th November from 12:00-13:00 in the Medicine Seminar Room Located on Level 5, Block E MMC.

Dr Sabine De Silva will be presenting:  "TLRs and Quantiferon in TB-an update on a pilot translational study at Monash Health"

Lunch will be provided.  All welcome.

  

"The lifecycle of a manuscript: helpful hints for publishing in top-tier journals" TODAY 10am

Dr Laurie Dempsey

A special seminar on "The lifecycle of a manuscript: helpful hints for publishing in top-tier journals" will be presented by Dr Laurie Dempsey, Senior Editor of the Nature Immunology journal.

Dr Dempsey will be visiting the Hudson Institute next Tuesday 10th November.  Her seminar will be at 10.00am in the Level 3 Boardrooms.  Please see the attached flyer for more information.

In the CiiiD seminar at 1.00pm, Anita Pinar will be presenting her pre-submission seminar on "The role of the inflammasome and IL-1beta in inflammatory disease."  Anita's seminar will also be held in the Level 3 Boardrooms.

Fundraising Lunch and Raffle for Medecins Sans Frontieres this Friday 13 November

Please join us this Friday, 13^th November in the Medicine seminar room for a lunch with delicious treats, drinks, raffle, and socialize while helping to raise money. Lots of prizes are to be won (see below). All proceeds raised at the event will be donated to MSF!

Details:

What:  Raffle and buffet-style lunch (incl. drinks), where attendees can either bring food for sharing or will be asked for a small donation. Raffle tickets can be purchased this week from the SCS reception and will be drawn during the lunch.

When: Friday, 13^th November, 12-2pm

Where: Medicine Seminar Room, Block E, Level 5 (close to SCS reception)

Prices: $8 lunch incl. drinks (or bring and eat free, in which case please contact: Michaela.finsterbusch@monash.edu)

$2 for 1 or $5 for 3 raffle tickets (get tickets at SCS reception, Block E, level 5 or from Michaela Finsterbusch)

Raffle Prizes:

Hudson seminar Thurs 12 November “MHTP Medical Genomics Forum” -Technologies in Research

Speaker Dr Nold

Thursday 12 November, 4-5pm, Lecture Theatre 1, MMC
Hosted by Ms Vivien Vasic, MHTP Medical Genomics Facility

Flyer with details here.

Clinical Inertia In The Individualisation Of Care For Patients With Diabetes - 12 Nov

Presented by Dr Paivi Maria Paldanius

Thursday 12 November, 8 - 9am
Lecture Theatre 2, Monash Medical Centre

Dr. Päivi Maria Paldánius is Director, Global Medical Affairs Diabetes and Metabolism at Novartis Pharma AG, Switzerland. She graduated from a unique research-oriented medicine programme (MMS) piloted at Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, and has also completed Nordplus scholar studies in neuropharmacology at the Helsinki University and more recently, clinical paediatric graduate school studies as a part of her PhD studies at the Children’s Hospital, Helsinki University Central Hospital. She joined Novartis in 2006 and has been contributing to the clinical programmes within diabetes and metabolism as Regional European Medical Adviser, later as Global Principle Medical Scientific Expert and after year 2013 as Director, Global Medical Affairs Diabetes and Metabolism. Today she is the medical lead of the VERIFY study and has designed, implemented and published unique clinical studies and clinical programmes such as the INTERVAL study addressing the individualised targets in elderly persons with T2DM or the Time2DoMore programme addressing the barriers to optimised diabetes care and perceptions and reasons behind clinical inertia.

In parallel with her pharmaceutical career Päivi Paldánius is also a member of an academic research group at Children’s Hospital, Helsinki University Central Hospital. Her academic research interests have always focused on endocrinology, especially targeting mechanisms behind imbalances in bone metabolism and glucose tolerance in a cohort of young adults born prematurely with very low birth weight. 

SCS Researchers - Joint Hudson-SCS Grant Review process for 2016: NHMRC and ARC grant applications

All researchers are invited to be part of the Joint Hudson-SCS Grant Review process, which reviews NHMRC and ARC grant applications.  Through this process you will receive advice on the strategic direction of your grant and identifying reviewers to assist with grantsmanship.  Please note that participation for SCS researchers in this peer review process is now compulsory.
Sessions to review early grant proposals have been shown to be particularly useful for new grant proposals and those that are to be substantially rewritten.  At each meeting applicants are asked to speak about their proposed grant for approximately 5 minutes, clearly addressing the selection criteria. This is then followed by 15 minutes of discussion and feedback.  All postdoctoral researchers are encouraged to attend.

To participate in this process, please send the following to jinleng.graham@monash.edu:


- By Monday 16 November, 2015 - No. of grants, proposed CIs, granting body and preferred Panel - This will be used to allocate meetings and spokespersons.


- By Monday 23 November, 2015 - Completed NHMRC or ARC proforma (attached) and track records for each CI.

Meetings to review Grant Proposals will run from 30 November to 18 December, 2015. You must be available to attend these meetings.
Note that the Ritchie Centre runs a separate review process.  Those going through this process do not have to participate in the above process but may choose to do so, particularly if their grant crosses over into themes other than reproduction.

Please do not hesitate to contact Jin Graham (857 22650) if you have any queries.

Reminder: students to register for inaugural PhD Student Symposium, 20 November

Please join us for the inaugural PhD Student Symposium showcasing the best of SCS-Hudson 2nd/3rd year PhD students from different disciplines in 15 minute talks. 

Friday 20 November, 12.15 - 5.00pm, Lecture Theatre 1, MMC

Register your attendance here.   Enquiries to: PhD.scs@monash.edu

Note: All SCS/Hudson PhD students are expected to attend.  See here for further information.

PhD Mid-Candidature Review - Kanokwan Srirattana

Title: Manipulating the mitochondrial genome to generate more economically viable livestock.

Date: 24th November 2015
Time: 9.45am
Venue: Hudson meeting room, Level 2
Supervisors: Prof Justin St. John and Dr Matthew McKenzie
SAC/Panel chair: Dr Craig Harrison
Independent assessors: A/Prof David Walker and A/Prof Peter Temple-Smith

PhD Mid-Candidature Review - Rahana Abdul Rahman

Title: Future promising treatments for preterm pre-eclampsia

Date: 24th November 2015
Time: 9.00 - 10.30 am
Venue: Board rooms level 3 Hudson Institute of Medical Research
Supervisors:  Prof. Euan Wallace, Dr Rebecca Lim, Dr Padma Murthi
Panel chair: A/Prof Eva Dimitriadis

PhD Mid-candidature Review - Shanti Gurung

Title: Use of small molecules to improve culture expansion of eMSC for clinical use

Supervisors: A/Prof Caroline Gargett and Prof Jerome Werkmeister
Panel chair: Prof Graham Jenkin
Independent assessors: Dr Rebecca Lim and A/Prof Pritinder Kaur

Date/time:	Mon 23 Nov 2015 14:00 – 15:00
Venue:	Level 3 boardrooms, Hudson Institute 27-31 Wright Street Clayton

Information Pack Moodle 2.9 Upgrade

Sent on behalf of Dr George Kotsana, Academic Director, Information Technology

There will be an upgrade to Moodle in the first week of December.  The Moodle 2.9 upgrade will commence at 11 PM, AEDT on Friday 4th December and complete at  8:00 AM Monday 7 December. Monash Moodle will NOT be available for use during this time.

New Moodle 2.9 features:

• Notable improvements to navigation and the interface to give Moodle a more professional and streamlined appearance.
• Support for working with large classes continues to improve in groups and groupings.
• A new capability to subscribe or unsubscribe to a single discussion in a forum.
• Quizzes are no longer limited to a single structure or behaviour and now include options such conditional questions, and internal sections that can have randomised and sequential questions in the same quiz.
• “Natural weighting” promises to make using and managing Grades much easier by using input boxes to edit weightings it calculates the percentage contributions of each assessable item in much more intuitively.

Current Moodle learning topics have been updated to reflect the additional functionality and changes. These are available on the Moodle Learning Topics page.

What should I do to prepare for the upgrade?

Introducing Campus Travel, Monash University preferred travel agent

The University would like its staff to use its preferred travel agents for all your travel bookings, listed below:

Campus Travel
Phone: 1300 767 092 Email: monash@campustravel.com.au

Voyager
Phone: 1300 887 732 Email: monash@voyagertravel.com.au

Campus Travel & Voyager
Bookings for international travel made through Campus Travel or Voyager must be made by telephone or email.

Please note that corporate credit cards cannot be used to book travel.  Campus Travel and Voyager will charge the cost of your booking to your cost centre/fund.  The easiest way to book your travel with Campus Travel or Voyager is to email your request to them - you do not have to go through Concur Travel Management.

Free Qantas Frequent Flyer membership is offered via this link:
https://www.qantas.com.au/fflyer/do/dyns/joinffp?code=FAMILYFREE

Campus Travel flier here.  Campus Travel mobile app information here.
Research poster here.

Cord blood mononuclear cells prevent neuronal apoptosis in response to perinatal asphyxia in the newborn lamb

Suzie Miller et al. published in The Journal of Physiology.

Read article here.

Social factors ameliorate psychiatric disorders in community-based asylum seekers independent of visa status

Suresh Sundram et al. published in Psychiatry Research.

Read article here.

Unravelling the links between the initiation of ventilation and brain injury in preterm infants

Samantha Barton et al. published in Frontiers in Pediatrics.

Read article here.

Targeting IL-17 and IL-23 in Immune Mediated Renal Disease

Jo Ghali et al. published in Current Medicinal Chemistry.

Read article here.

Atlas of the Global Burden of Stroke (1990-2013): The GBD 2013 Study

Amanda Thrift et al. published in Neuroepidemiology.

Read article here.

Remission in SLE: closing in on the target

Eric Morand et al. published in Annals of the Rheumatic Disease.

Read article here.

The role of multiparametric flow cytometry in the detection of minimal residual disease in acute leukaemia

George Grigoriadis et al. published in Pathology.

Read article here.