Category: Travel Story

Duyen Pham from the Robinson Research Institute attended the 4th World Conference on PCDH19 Conference in Rome, Italy in November 2017. Duyen presented her work, Integration of in silico and experimental assessment of disease-relevance of PCDH19 variants. This is what Duyen had to say about her experience in Italy. What was a highlight of the conference? Meeting with the […]

Louise Robertson from the Robinson Research Institute attended Genome Engineering: The CRISPR-Cas Revolution Conference and a mouse CRISPR technology meeting in New York, USA in July 2017. Louise presented her work, Expanding the toolkit for mouse genome editing: Analysis of CRISPR variants with different PAM recognition. This is what Louise had to say about her […]

Dr Jimmy Breen from the Robinson Research Institute’s Bioinformatics Core Facility attended BioC2017 and the Bioconductor Developer Day in Boston, USA and the Human Placenta Project Meeting at the USA National Institute of Health Headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland in July. Jimmy presented his work, msgbsR: an R package for analysing methylation-sensitive genotyping-by-sequencing data at BioC2017. […]

Rebecca Wilson from the Robinson Research Institute’s Placental Development Research Group attended the Frontiers in Reproduction Course in Massachusetts, USA in April-June 2017. Rebecca attended a prestigious 6 week intensive laboratory and lecture course offered to only 20 people worldwide and was invited to present her research on Maternal haemodynamic, placental and renal factors contribute […]

Megan Bater from the Robinson Research Institute’s Perinatal Health and Child Development Research Group attended the Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand (PSANZ) Conference in Canberra in April 2017. Megan presented her research on Parent concerns for child development amongst preterm graduates of neonatal care in Australia. This is what Megan had to say about […]

Amy Garrett from the Robinson Research Institute’s Perinatal Health and Child Development Research Group attended the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease Conference in Canberra in April 2017. Amy presented her research on Neurodevelopmental outcomes in children born to mothers following pregnancy complications. This is what Amy had to say about her experience: What was a highlight […]

Dr Jessica Grieger from the Robinson Research Institute’s Placental development Research Group attended the Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand (PSANZ) Conference in Canberra in April 2017. Jessica presented her research on Poor metabolic health, irrespective of obesity, increases risk for gestational diabetes and preeclampsia in women participating in the multi-centre, prospective SCOPE cohort. This is […]

Dr Sonja Frolich from the Robinson Research Institute’s Ovarian and Reproductive Cancer Research Group attended the 16th Australian Cell Cycle Meeting: “Cell Cycle, DNA Damage Response & Telomeres” in Sydney in March 2017. Sonja presented her research on Development of automated high-content microscopy-assisted assays for telomere biology. This is what Sonja had to say about her experience: […]

Ella Green from the Robinson Research Institute’s Reproductive Immunology Research Group attended the International Congress of Immunology in Melbourne and its satellite symposium Inflammation in Reproduction, Pregnancy and Development (IRPD) in Cairns in August 2016. Ella presented her research on Regulatory T cell abundance and phenotype in pregnancy – a novel role for progesterone potentially independent […]

Dr Rebecca Thomson from the Robinson Research Institute’s Diabetes Research Group attended the Nutrition Society of Australia 2016 Annual Scientific Meeting in Melbourne in November 2016. Rebecca presented her research on Are pregnant women meeting the Australian Dietary guidelines? A comparison of maternal pregnancy diets in women with and without type 1 diabetes. This is what […]