Day of Immunology 2016 - Our Amazing Immune System

The 2016 Day of Immunology events at TRI kicked off with a day of student workshops in the SPARQ-ed laboratory, followed by a public forum in the evening featuring speaker presentations. 100 members of the general public, researchers and industry representatives started their night with a building tour followed by presentations from 3 top researchers in the field of Immunology. 

ECR SPEAKER COMPETITION

Following the first speaker, the early career researcher competition kicked off with 6 presentations from TRI based researchers - 3 x PhD students and 3 x post doc researchers. 

PhD Student Presentations	Post Doc Student Presentations
Yoke Lee Human dendritic cells and the anti-tumour immune response Jeremy Brooks Re-educating the immune system to forget undesirable memories Michael Nissen - WINNER The effects of chronic psychological stress on the immune response to lymphoma	Frances Pearson Using ‘humanised mice’ to develop cancer vaccines Sara McKee Promoting lifelong immune control of lymphoma by reducing suppressive immune cell production Kirsty Short - WINNER Left breathless: Reducing the severity of the flu in patients with asthma

Winners pictured. Left: Kirsty Short. Right: Michael Nissen. 

Event Video

Watch the presentations from Prof Mike McGuckin, Prof John Upham and the ECR's below or click here to view on YouTube. Please note, the presentation from Dr Danielle Stanisic is not available due to the pending publication of research data. 

IMMUNISATION CAFE Downloadable RESOURCES

Please find below a collection of PDF documents and video resources from the 2016 Day of Immunology 

Download Immunisation PDF's
Amazing Immune System.pdf	Intl Day of Immunology booklet.pdf
Download Vaccination PDF's
Adult Vaccination Fact Sheet.pdf
Deciding To Vaccinate.pdf	DOI Dayinthelifeof 2016.pdf
Flu vaccine consumers fact sheets.pdf	Hepatitis B Vaccination Fact Sheet.pdf
How are vaccines shown to be safe.pdf	How do vaccines affect immunity.pdf
Human Papillomavirus HPV Vaccine Fact Sheet.pdf	immunisation is important.pdf
Influenza Vaccine Fact Sheet.pdf	Why is the vaccine schedule the way it is.pdf
Meningococcal Vaccines Fact Sheet.pdf	National Immunisation Program schedule2016.pdf
Parent Resources Immunisation Fact Sheet.pdf	Pertussis Vaccine Fact Sheet.pdf
Polio Vaccine Fact Sheet.pdf	QLD immunisation schedule.pdf
Rotavirus Vaccine Fact Sheet.pdf	The science of immunisation-hr.pdf
Vaccination answers to common questions.pdf	Vaccination doing further research.pdf
Vaccination myths and realities 5th ed 2013.pdf	Vaccinations in pregnancy fact sheet.pdf
Varicella Vaccine Fact Sheet.pdf	What About Austism and vaccines.pdf
What Is In Vaccines.pdf