Past PhD Students for 2008
Samantha Fung completed her PhD on Interactions between metallathionein and neurons of the CNS with the Neuroscience group supervised by Professor Adrian West and Dr Roger Chung. She is now a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute, Sydney.
Robert Gasperini completed his PhD on Homer, TRP channels and calcium: the signalling triad of growth cone motility with the Neuroscience group co-supervised by Associate Professor Inn Chuah. He is now a Research Fellow at Menzies, employed in the laboratory of Professor David Small.
Mohammad Rassem Irhimeh completed his PhD on Clinical haemopoietic implications of fucoidan treatment with Associate Professor Greg Woods. He has taken up a teaching/research position in Saudi Arabia.
Anna King completed her PhD on Unravelling the cellular pathology leading to neurodegeneration in motor neurone disease with the Neuroscience group supervised by Professor James Vickers and Dr Tracey Dickson. She is now a Research Fellow at Menzies, and the recipient of a nationally competitive fellowship from the Motor Neurone Disease Research Institute of Australia.
Phillippa Oakford completed her PhD on Regulation of gene expression by the RUNX1 transcription factor with the Cancer and Immunology group supervised by Dr Adele Holloway. She is now at the Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Southern California.
Adele Woodhouse completed her PhD on Pathological changes leading to neuronal degeneration in Alzheimer's Disease with the Neuroscience group supervised by Professor James Vickers and Dr Tracey Dickson. After a brief stint as a Postdoctoral Junior Research Fellow with the Wicking Dementia Research and Education Centre at Menzies, she was awarded an NHMRC CJ Martin Fellowship to undertake postdoctoral studies at the Institute Jean Roche in Marseille and plans to return to Menzies in 2011 for the final two years of this fellowship.
Alison West was awarded a NHMRC Post-graduate research scholarship in 2008 and is undertaking a PhD at the Peter McCallum Institute in Victoria. Alison is a former UROP student and Cancer Council Tasmania Honours Scholarship holder. She was supervised by Dr Jo Dickinson and Dr Adele Holloway during her honours year in 2007 and as a research assistant in 2008.
Past Honours Students for 2008
With the guidance of academic staff at Menzies, eight students successfully completed an honours degree in 2008.
They were Gabriella Brown and Shirley (Flora) Cheong under the supervision of Associate Professor Greg Woods, Christopher Butler under the supervision of Dr Roger Chung, Emma Cazaly and Stanislaw Mitew under the supervision of Dr Tracey Dickson, Angela Lanzlinger under the supervision of Dr Louise Roddam, Moses Otto under the supervision of Dr Seana Gall, and Soo Yee Khor under the supervision of Dr Stephen Richards.
Three of those have gone onto postgraduate work at Menzies.
Gabriella Brown is Assessing chemotherapy and radiation in the treatment of the devil facial tumour disease under the supervision of Associate Professor Greg Woods. During her honours year she was the recipient of a Qantas Tasmanian Devil Honours Scholarship.
Angela Lanzlinger is pursuing her PhD studies exploring Mechanisms of inhibition of pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm under the supervision of Dr Louise Roddam and Dr David Reid.
Stan Mitew is undertaking his PhD studies in the area of Axon pathology in neurodegenerative disease under the supervision of Dr Tracey Dickson and Professor James Vickers.
A fourth honours student Chris Butler, is working as a Graduate Research Assistant in the Neuroscience group with Dr Roger Chung at Menzies.
