Holly Groome from the Robinson Research Institute travelled to Cambridge, UK to attend a Lab Visit with Dr Amanda Sferuzzi-Perri’s team and also to Paris, France to attend the Society for Reproductive Investigation conference where she presented on “Macrophage regulation of decidual vascular remodelling is crucial for pregnancy success in mice”. This is what Holly […]

Qianhui Wan from the Robinson Research Institute travelled to Lorne, Victoria in February to attend The 40th Annual Lorne Genome Conference and workshops . Qianhui’s presentation was on “Changes in placental DNA methylation across early human pregnancy” and this is what she had to say about her experience. What was a highlight of the travel? Meeting […]

Amy Garrett from the Robinson Research Institute travelled to Sydney in July to attend and give a poster and presentation at the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) Conference and also attended a full-day workshop on “The Adolescent Window: DOHaD Interventions that engage adolescents of transgenerational change”. Amy’s oral poster presentation was on “Sex […]

Bihong Zhang from the Robinson Research Institute travelled to China in June to visit to Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, and attend the American Society for Reproductive Immunology Conference in Shanghai. Bihong presented on “miR-155 is required for functionally competent regulatory T cells”. This is what Bihong had to say about her experience. What was a highlight […]

Melanie Smith from the Robinson Research Institute travelled to Brisbane in July to attend the Winter School in Mathematical and Computational Biology. This is what Melanie had to say about her experience. What was a highlight of the travel? The UofA is the only university I have any experience in. Spending time at another Australian […]

Qianhui Wan from the Robinson Research Institute travelled to Brisbane in July to attend the Winter School in Mathematical & Computational Biology. This is what Qianhui had to say about her experience. What was a highlight of the travel? The highlight of the travel was learning about the up-to-date methods and ideas about bioinformatics analysis, […]

Ella Green from the Robinson Research Institute travelled to Woods Hole, Massachusetts in the USA from April – June to attend the Frontiers in Reproduction (FIR) advanced training course and symposium. This is what Ella had to say about her experience in the USA. What was a highlight of the travel? There were too many […]

Zohra Lassi from the Robinson Research Institute visited A/Prof Thomas Debray at Cochrane Netherlands and attended a course on “Individual Participant Data – Meta Analysis (IPD-MA)” with the team of statisticians and methodologists from the Utrecht University in the Netherlands in June and July, 2018. This is what Zohra had to say about her experience in the […]

Ruby Dawson from the Robinson Research Institute attended the Gordon Research Conference – Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology in Hong Kong and met with Christopher Walsh from Harvard Medical School in July, 2018. Ruby presented her work, Investigation of a second-hit mechanism for GATOR1-related focal epilepsy. This is what Ruby had to say about her experience in Hong […]