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Lee Hudek announced as Millis - Colwell 2012 winner
ASM Executive is pleased to announce Lee Hudek was the successful candidate for this year’s Millis – Colwell Post Graduate Award.
Lee, currently at Deakin University in Melbourne, will be travelling to the US to participate in the National Conference of the American Society for Microbiology (American ASM) and visiting a research laboratory. Thanks to the Research Trust for their involvement in this decision.
Applications for next year’s award close on 30th November.
A scanned copy of this important publication is now available for all members under Publications.
FRANK FENNER AWARD WINNER ANNOUNCED
The judging panel for the prestigious Frank Fenner Award is proud and delighted to announce Assoc Prof Johnson Mak as this year’s winner.
The purpose of this award is to recognise distinguished contributions in any area of Australian research in microbiology by scientists in a formative stage of their career, rather than to reward senior scientists for a lifetime of achievement, and this year the applicants were of a extremely high calibre.
I’m sure all members join the panel in congratulating Johnson.
Congratulations to Dr Tania de Koning-Ward
Microbiologist, Malaria Researcher from Deakin University for being awarded the 2011 Commonwealth Health Minister's Medal.
TriState meetings have been initiated and supported by ASM branches in SA, WA and NT over many years. The primary purpose is to bring microbiologists together in an intimate environment conducive to information sharing and focused discussion in a relaxed and pleasant atmosphere.
FASTS National Survey of Scientists
Please access the results of the FASTS National Survey of Scientists via the Members Lounge.
The response rate was very encouraging indeed with 2874 people completing all questions in the survey.
The survey results are for internal use by you and your members and are not for broad public consumption.
FASTS is using the results for a number of purposes and we believe these activities would be less effective if the survey results were publically distributed.
The ASM is proud to announce the 2011 winner of the ASM Teachers Travel Award.
Dr Priscilla Johanesen from Monash University was the successful applicant.
The aim of this award is to encourage ASM members involved in teaching microbiology at the tertiary level to attend the annual scientific meeting of the Australian Society for Microbiology.
Congratulations to Priscilla.
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The Australian Society for Microbiology has taken the extraordinary step of releasing the March issue of Microbiology Australia to the public, just one month after its release to ASM members. This is being done for the Public interest. It is considered important for the public worldwide to have access to this information as soon as possible.
The issue incorporates findings from expert analyses of the 2009 Influenza Pandemic. These in-depth reports are peer reviewed and have not previously been released. There is detailed information on how the disease progression was handled from WHO recommendations to local reactions. There are also reports on studies in animals (native birds, horses and swine) and their role in transmission.
The issue was Guest Edited by Ian Barr (InfluenzaCentre) and Paul Selleck (Australian Animal Health Laboratory). ASM thanks them for their contribution in bringing these studies together into one journal issue.
Best wishes
Ian Macreadie (Editor of Microbiology Australia)
The David White Excellence in Teaching Award recognises excellence in the teaching of, and/or innovation in the teaching of microbiology in
Australia.
Congratulations to Mark.
Dr. Sophie Octavia from the University of New South Wales has been awarded the Millis–Colwell Award and Andrew Liew from the University of Technology, Sydney has been awarded the Burnet–Hayes Post graduate Award.
These recently initiated awards provide funding for postgraduate or recently graduated members of ASM to to attend the American Society for Microbiology meeting in the USA (Millis-Colwell award) and Society for General Microbiology in the UK (Burnet-Hayes award) and to visit a research laboratory in that country to either extend or initiate research collaboration. This is a reciprocal exchange award program whereby the corresponding societies overseas allow one of their members to attend the annual ASM meeting in Australia and visit a lab of their choice in our country.
Congratulations to both successful applicants in a highly competitive round of applications.
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RSS feeds are now installed and operational at the ASM.
RSS (most commonly translated as "Really Simple Syndication") is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format.
An RSS document (which is called a "feed", "web feed", or "channel") includes full or summarized text, plus metadata such as publishing dates and authorship. Web feeds benefit publishers by letting them syndicate content automatically. They benefit readers who want to subscribe to timely updates from favored websites or to aggregate feeds from many sites into one place. RSS feeds can be read using software called an "RSS reader", "feed reader", or "aggregator", which can be web-based, desktop-based, or mobile-device-based. A standardized XML file format allows the information to be published once and viewed by many different programs. The user subscribes to a feed by entering into the reader the feed's URI – often referred to informally as a "URL" (uniform resource locator), although technically the two terms are not exactly synonymous – or by clicking an RSS icon in a browser that initiates the subscription process. The RSS reader checks the user's subscribed feeds regularly for new work, downloads any updates that it finds, and provides a user interface to monitor and read the feeds
RSS formats are specified using XML, a generic specification for the creation of data formats. Although RSS formats have evolved since March 1999 the RSS icon (
) first gained widespread use between 2005 and 2006
