What's New with the Centre and its Members?
December 2011
Full member, Dr Nick Spencer, is featured in an article entitled "Blocking pain before it hits the brain" in the Nov-Dec 2011 issue of the Flinders University's Flinders Journal (Vol 22, No 10, page 3).
The December issue of 'Research Pulse' congratulated several members of the CNS on their successful grant applications (pages 4-5). Included in the recipients were our very own: Marcello Costa, Philip Dinning, Nick Spencer, Simon Brookes, Xin-Fu Zhou, Neil Sims, Hakan Muyderman, Tim Chataway, Feng Guo and Elke Sokoya. Full member Phil Dinning was also mentioned on page 8 of the issue for his recent Australian Museum Eureka Prize win.
September 2011
This month's issue of 'Research Pulse' proved to be a wonderful advertisement for the Centre for Neuroscience with 13 of our Members noted for various achievements. They included Full Members: Tim Chataway, Rainer Haberberger, Neil Sims, Hakan Muyderman, Damien Keating, Xin-Fu Zhou, Nick Spencer, Philip Dinning, Mary-Louise Rogers, Robert Rush, Elke Sokoya, Vladimir Zagorodnyuk and Simon Brookes.
Congratulations to Full Member, Dr Phil Dinning, on being awarded the "2011 Eureka Prize for Innovative Use of Technology", valued at $10,000! Dr Dinning and Dr John Arkwright (CSIRO Materials Science and Engineering) were jointly awarded the prize for their fibre-optic catheter work. For more information, please see the Australian Museum website.
Congratulations to Full Member, Dr Tim Chataway, who has just been announced as the 2011 "Unsung Hero of South Australian Science"! Dr Chataway is the Head of the Flinders Proteomic Facility and a former Centre for Neuroscience Executive Member.
Dr Tim Chataway - Photo courtesy of the Flinders Medical Centre Foundation E-News
June 2011
The $2500 CNS Honours Scholarships for 2011 are announced (Wed 29th)
and congratulations go to Dale Sharrad and Emily Schreiber! Dale is studying his Honours in the Neurogastroenterology Laboratory
under Prof Simon Brookes and Emily is studying in the Cardiovascular Neuroscience
Laboratory under Assoc Prof Ida Llewellyn-Smith. Petra Unterweger who is studying her Honours in Dr Damien Keating's Molecular & Cellular Neuroscience Laboratory is also congratulated on being awarded a Faculty of Health Sciences Honours Scholarship for 2011!
Dale Sharrad (left)
and Emily Schreiber (right) receive their certificates
from Assoc Prof John
Oliver from the FMC Foundation (middle).
Student Member Stephanie Shepheard was presented (Fri 10th) with a plaque from the Australian Rotary Health Regional Director, Dr Richard Wilson, in recognition of being awarded the Australian Rotary Health (ARH) Motor Neuron Disease PhD Scholarship for 2011! Stephanie is pictured below with Dr Mary-Louise Rogers, E.Prof Robert Rush and Dr Tim Chataway.
From left to right: Dr Mary-Louise Rogers, E.Prof Robert Rush, Stephanie Shepheard, Dr Tim Chataway and Dr Richard Wilson.
Full Member Prof Greg Barritt, was featured in an article entitled "How is obesity, fatty liver and insulin resistance linked to Type 2 diabetes?" in the June 2011 issue of Flinders University's Research Pulse (page 5). Other Full Members featured in this edition of Research Pulse include Dr Mark Slee and Assoc Prof Rainer Haberberger, who were noted amongst successful grant recipients in the article entitled "Celebrating success in the Faculty" (page 6).
May 2011
Congratulations to Assoc Prof Rainer Haberberger on being awarded a $34,000 Defence Health Foundation Establishment Grant for the project "Epigenetic mechanisms in peripheral pain perception", in collaboration with Dr Robyn Meech from Clinical Pharmacology!
Assoc Prof Rainer Haberberger (left) and Dr Robyn Meech (middle) with BRIG Gerard Fogarty (right) from the Defence Health Foundation.
April 2011
Full Member Prof Leon Lack, is featured in a Flinders Journal article (page 7, Vol 22, No. 3, April 2011) entitled "Laying insomnia to rest with Flinders Advice". The article mentions Prof Lack's new book Sleep Well, Live Better which explains the basics of sleep and identifies the different types of insomnia.
Full Member Dr Jen Clarke (seen below dressed
as Julia Gillard), as well as dozens of other Full and Student CNS Members, joined
the rally against the proposed funding cuts to Medical Research
on the steps of Parliament House (North Terrace, Adelaide) on
Tuesday 12th April. Adelaide
Now online article.
Picture: Dean Martin. Source: Adelaide Now, www.adelaidenow.com.au
Congratulations are extended to Full Member, Assoc
Prof John Power, who has been appointed Flinders University's
'Assistant Dean of Medical & Health
Science Programs'!
March 2011
Life Member Prof Marcello Costa has
an article published online (29 March) by The
Conversation entitled "A neuroscientist’s
view: spare children the manipulations of chiropractic quackery".
Full Member Dr Elke Sokoya is featured in an
article (page 3) in the March
2011 Edition of the Flinders University Research Pulse, entitled "Restoring cerebrovascular health".
February 2011
Congratulations are extended to Full and Executive Member, Assoc
Prof Rainer Haberberger on being awarded $3000 from the Australian
Lung Foundation / Lugwig Engel Grant-in-aid for Physiological Research
Award 2011!
January 2011
CNS Student Member Stephanie Shepheard was awarded
BOTH the Australian Rotary Health/York Family PhD Scholarship
and an Australian Postgraduate Award (APA)! As she could only
keep one, Stephanie accepted the Rotary Scholarship and is now
investigating Motor
Neuron Disease in
the Neurotrophic Laboratory under Dr Mary-Louise Rogers.
December 2010
The CNS Annual General Meeting is held (Wed
8th) in the Horseshoe Seminar Room of the Flinders Medical Centre,
followed by the 2010 Neuropursuit
Championship!
Congratulations to Full Member Prof Gino Saccone on receiving a Dean's Award acknowledging his outstanding contribution to the School of Medicine, Flinders University!
Congratulations to Full and Executive Member, Assoc Prof Rainer Haberberger, on receiving a Collaborative Research Award from the International Society for the Study of Pain!
October 2010
Full Members E.Prof John Willoughby and Dr Marita Broberg (along with Assoc Prof Kenneth Pope and Lauren Mackenzie from the Epilepsy Laboratory) gave an invited seminar entitled “Acute animal models: Surprising contributions to epilepsies” to the Asian Epilepsy Academy Workshop, during the 8th Asian Oceanian Epilepsy Congress in Melbourne (20th-24th).
September 2010
Full member, Prof Leon Lack, had his 're-time glasses' featured in Flinders University's 1st Research Innovation Showcase! The showcase was established with the aim of allowing researchers to introduce their capabilities and technologies, as well as network with potential investors.
August 2010
Congratulations are extended to Full and CNS Executive Member,
Dr Damien Keating, on being announced as a 2010
Young Tall Poppy of Science! Tall Poppy winners are selected on
the basis of
both their research achievement and passion for communicating
their work. The SA awards were presented at a ceremony on August 10th.
Full member, Prof Leon Lack, held a workshop (Tues 9th) at the Repatriation General Hospital for medical academic detailers who will be visiting hundreds of GPs in the Adelaide metropolitan area, advising them of methods and options for the non-drug treatment of insomnia.
July 2010
Congratulations are offered to the following CNS Student Members
who have all been awarded Faculty of Health Sciences Honours Scholarships
in 2010! We celebrate their success and wish them all the best
with their studies.
- Kirsty Hendy (Autonomic Neurotransmission Laboratory)
- Laura Turnbull (Parkinson & Alzheimer
Disease Laboratory)
- Olivia Barnes (Parkinson & Alzheimer
Disease Laboratory)
The 2010 CNS Honours Scholarships are announced (Mon 5th)
and congratulations go to Anna Kontos
and Kevin Smith, both from Human Physiology!
Anna is in the Neurology Laboratory
under Prof Bill Blessing and Kevin is in the Neuroregeneration
Laboratory under Prof Xin-Fu Zhou. We wish them the best
with their studies over the coming year.
Kevin Smith (left)
and Anna Kontos (right) receive their certificates
from Assoc Prof John
Oliver from the FMC Foundation (middle).
June 2010
The Centre for Neuroscience farewells a long time Member
from its ranks. Prof C. Richard Clark has been
a Full Member of the Centre since 1987 and is scheduled to retire
at the end of this month. Prof Clark's research laboratory - the
Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory - is also farewelled from
the list of CNS Laboratories in line with his retirement. Prof
Clark is congratulated by the Executive and all our Members on
his impressive contributions to neuroscience during his career
and is wished all the best for a well earned retirement!
Full member Dr Willem van Steenbrugge is featured
in an article (page 3) in the June
10 Edition of the Flinders University Research Pulse, entitled "This
is your Captain speaking..." about the condition of Hypoxia.
May 2010
Full member, Prof Leon Lack, gave a seminar (Sat 7th) entitled "Melatonin: Miracle or Mirage" to medical and psychological staff of the Adelaide Institute for Sleep Health, at Repatriation General Hospital, Adelaide.
Congratulations to CNS Student Member Stephanie Shepheard,
on being awarded the $3000 Neil Della Honours Scholarship for 2010!
This scholarship is funded by the Flinders Medical Foundation and
is awarded to the student, undertaking full-time Honours in the
School of Medicine, with the highest undergraduate GPA.
Stephanie (front left) being handed the certificate and cheque
by Assoc Prof John Oliver (front right) from the FMC Foundation.
Stephanie's supervisors (back row) are Dr Mary-Louise Rogers
and Dr Tim Chataway.
April 2010
Full member, Prof Leon Lack, gave a seminar (Wed 27th) on "non-drug treatment of chronic insomnia" to the 2nd year trainees of the South Australian Psychiatry Training Committee.
March 2010
Congratulations to the following CNS Members on receiving awards
from the Australian
Neuroscience Society (ANS)!
- Marcello Costa: Life Membership, for
contributions over an extended period
- Robert Rush: nominated and confirmed for
Life Membership
Full Member Dr Marita Broberg wrote
an article for the March
2010 edition of Research Pulse on "Seizures - how do they
start?" (page
3). Full Member Dr Damien Keating was also featured
in this edition of Research Pulse (page 8) in an article entitled "Flinders rewards its emerging best and brightest".
February 2010
Congratulations
to Student Members Heshan Peiris and Kimberley
Mackenzie on each receiving an award at the joint
annual conference for the Australian Physiological and
Neuroscience Societies in Sydney!
Heshan has been awarded the 'Best Oral Presentation by
a student' from the Australian Physiological Society and
Kim was awarded the 'Best
Oral Presentation by a student' from the Australian Neuroscience
Society. Both Kim and Heshan are PhD students in the Molecular
& Cellular Neuroscience Laboratory, supervised by Dr
Damien Keating.
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