Special Interest Group Workshops

The ASI Special Interest Groups are excited to announce that in addition to the ASI ASM 2022 main meeting, the ASI special interest groups will be hosting 5 workshops on Monday 28th of November 2022, the day before the main meeting begins. 

**Oral speaking opportunities at the workshops are available for delegates who submitted abstracts**

Location: All workshops will be held at The Peter Doherty Institute (corner of Royal Parade & Grattan Street) and The University of Melbourne Alan Gilbert Building (Grattan Street) Parkville. 

Time: 0900 – 1600 AEST 

Catering: Morning tea and lunch will be provided.

Pricing: $65 for student ASI members and $100 for regular ASI members.

 

Check out the list of exciting Workshop Programs and Invited Speakers below…
Stromal Immunity and Tumour Immunology
Workshop Speakers
  • Helen Heslop (Baylor College of Medicine, Texas, USA)
    ‘Extending CAR-T cell therapies to solid tumors’
  • Thomas Gebhardt (The Peter Doherty Institute, Melbourne)
    ‘Helper and killer T cell responses to cutaneous melanoma’
  • Alice Denton (Imperial College London, UK)
    ‘Lymphoid stroma defects underpin poor vaccine responses in ageing’
  • Cameron Bastow (Monash University)
    ‘Stromal regulation of leukocyte trafficking during homeostasis and cancer’
  • Feng Shao (National Institute of Biological Sciences, China)
  • Anna Trigos (Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne)
    ‘Analysing spatial proteomics data to profile the tumour immune microenvironment’
  • John Wherry (University of Pennsylvania) 

 

Workshop Organisers
  • Lisa Ebert
  • Anne Fletcher

Location: Room G20, Ground Floor, Alan Gilbert Building, The University of Melbourne.

161 Barry St, Carlton VIC 3053. Access via Barry St or Berkeley St. Please note this location is a 30 min tram or taxi ride from the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre (MCEC).

Workshop Program

View the Stromal Immunity and Tumour Immunology Workshop Program.

Innate Immunity and Immunometabolism
Workshop Speakers
  • Florent Ginhoux (A*STAR Singapore)
    ‘Tissue Resident Macrophages’
  • Kathryn Lawlor (Hudson)
    ‘Inflammatory Signalling Pathways’
  • Fernando Fonseca Guimaraes (UQ)
    ‘NK cell Responses’
  • Fiona Pixley (UWA)
    ‘Tumor Associated Macrophages’
  • Justine Mintern (UoM)
    ‘Ubiquitin & Immunity’

 

  • Axel Kallies (UoM) – Adipose T cells
  • Lucille Rankin (WEHI) – Microbial Tryptophan Metabolism & Tregs
  • Andrew Murphy (Baker Institute) – Dietary Salt & Hematopoesis
  • Annabell Bachem (UoM) – Microbiota Metabolites & CD8+ T cell immunity

 

  • Matt Sweet (UQ)
    ‘Macrophage Immunometabolism’
  • Mike Rogers (Garvan)
    ‘Mevalonate Pathway & Autoinflammatory Disease’
  • Nirmal Robinson (Uni SA)
    ‘TFEB, Mitochondria & Immunity’
  • Karla Helbig (La Trobe)
    ‘Lipid Droplets in Viral Infection’
  • Tri Phan (Garvan)
    ‘Metabolism & Osteoclast Transitions’
 
Workshop Organisers
  • Ajith Vasanthakumar
  • Katrina Binger
  • Marcia Munoz

Location: Room G18, Ground Floor, Alan Gilbert Building, The University of Melbourne.

161 Barry St, Carlton VIC 3053. Access via Barry St or Berkeley St. Please note this location is a 30 min tram or taxi ride from the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre (MCEC).

Workshop Program

View the Innate Immunity and Immunometabolism Workshop Program.

Clinical Immunology, Autoimmunity & Tolerance, Systems Immunology
Workshop Speakers 
  • Michelle Linterman – How human T and B cell response to vaccination changes with age’
  • Joesph Mackie – ‘Novel inborn errors of immunity in STAT3: From genotype to phenotype’
  • Danika Hill ‘Impaired HA-specific T follicular helper cell and antibody responses to influenza vaccination are linked to inflammation in humans
  • Anthony Farchione –  ‘Dysregulated naive CD4+ T-cell proliferative responses in coeliac disease’
  • Dan Littman (NYU School of Medicine and HHMI), Regulation of immune homeostasis by the microbiota’
  • Jazmina Gonzalez Cruz – Adding a new string to our bow: Spatial transcriptomics for easy cancer treatment personalization’
  • Garth Cameron – Glycolipids from the gut symbiont Bacteroides fragilis are agonists for Natural Killer T cells and induce their regulatory differentiation’
  • Hannah Law- ‘Utilising pseudotime and trajectory analysis to reveal functional plasticity of human lymph node T follicular helper (Tfh) and Pre-Tfh cells’
  • Fabio Luciani (UNSW Sydney)
    Dissecting immuno-pathogenesis in active and refractory Coeliac disease using single cell multi-omic
  • Stephanie Huang – Inhibition of Leukocyte DNA release attenuates inflammation in experimental anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody associated vasculitis’
  • Felix March-Wakefield – Peripheral B-cell dysregulation is associated with relapse after long-term quiescence in patients with multiple sclerosis’
  • Cynthia Turnbull – DECTIN-1 as a modifier gene for CTLA-4 Haploinsufficiency

 

Workshop Organisers
  • Vanessa Bryant
  • Emma Hamilton-Williams
  • Di Yu

Location: Lecture Theatre 2 (Room 109), First Floor, Alan Gilbert Building, The University of Melbourne.

161 Barry St, Carlton VIC 3053. Access via Barry St or Berkeley St. Please note this location is a 30 min tram or taxi ride from the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre (MCEC).

Workshop Program

View the Clinical Immunology, Autoimmunity & Tolerance, Systems Immunology Workshop Program.

Infection & Immunity, Wild & Comparative Immunology
Workshop Speakers
  • Guillaume Dumenil (Institut Pasteur, Paris)
  • Ismail Sebina, QIMR
  • Hyun Jae Lee, University of Melbourne
  • Maximillienn Evrard, (University of Melbourne)
  • Sherin Zachariah, ANU
  • Saoirse Benson, SAHMRI
  • Iris Mair, University of Manchester
  • Marcin Wegrecki, Monash University
  • Stephen McSorely, UC Davies
  • Songyi Li, University of Melbourne
  • Rangsima Pongvattanaporn, University of Melbourne
  • Anuk Kruawan, University of Tasmania
  • David Williams, CSIRO
  • Kevin John Selva, University of Melbourne
  • Samreen Shaikh, University of Queensland
  • Julia Boehme, OVGU Magdeburg
  • Alex Spencer, University of Newcastle

 

Workshop Organisers
  • Iona Schuster
  • Jerome Le Nours

Location: Room 123, First Floor, Alan Gilbert Building, The University of Melbourne.

161 Barry St, Carlton VIC 3053. Access via Barry St or Berkeley St. Please note this location is a 30 min tram or taxi ride from the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre (MCEC).

Workshop Program

The Infection & Immunity, Wild & Comparative Immunology Workshop Program.

Early Career Researchers (Students and postdocs 0-3y)
Workshop Speakers
  • “How to Pitch a Paper

Discussion on writing, editing, submitting and publishing scientific papers with CTI Deputy Editor Professor Seth Masters, ICB Editor-in-Chief Professor Anne La Flamme and Katrina Tepper, Research and Learning Coordinator at Monash University

  • Panel Discussion: Careers Following a PhD

Join our esteemed panel of academic and industry researchers as they discuss the decisions they made following a PhD and why they chose the career paths they are currently pursuing. Featured speakers:

  • Dr Georgia Atkin-Smith, Senior Postdoctoral Researcher at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

  • Dr Imran House, Senior Scientist at oNKo-innate Pty Ltd

  • Dr Junyun Lai, Postdoctoral Scientist at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre

  • Dr Craig McKenzie, Research Officer, Monash University

  • Dr Jess Michie, Medical Lead- Haematology, Bristol Myers Squibb

  • Dr Simon Preston, Venture Manager at SYNthesis Research

 

Workshop Organisers
  • Alexandra Dvorscek

  • Amanda Chen

  • Brigette Duckworth

  • Jennifer Habel

  • Rasa Islam

  • Sarah Sandford

Location: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, The University of Melbourne.

792 Elizabeth St, Melbourne VIC  3000. Please note this location is a 30 min tram or taxi ride from the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre (MCEC).

Workshop Program

View the Early Career Researchers (Students and postdocs 0-3y) Workshop Program.