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The ACRF Clinical Genomics 2 Centre Opening Launch

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eVenTS> The UQDI Research Symposium will be held on Friday, the 16th of September 2011. To register for this event, please visit the following link

> The UQDI Open Day will be held on Wednesday the 22nd of September in the JZ Forum, and will be an opportunity for potential students to hear from our researchers about their projects and experiences. If you would like to get involved, please contact Sarah Romig, or visit the website.

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as we pass the 2011 half way point the Tri building beside us is gaining height rapidly, with floor six already laid. The progress in the last couple of months has been extremely quick, and the building is now close to, or even slightly ahead of schedule, with expected completion in June-July next year. The building will then of course require completion of fit-out, and we won‘t be moving in until the 4th quarter of the year. Thankfully that‘s not too far off, and we will soon be seeing some relief from the space restrictions we currently face.

inbetween times the institute has been busy on several fronts. we had the opening of the australian cancer research foundation (acrf) compre-hensive cancer genomics facility on July 19. as was pointed out during the opening ceremony, this facility crosses the boundaries of several of the different Tri institutes, with involvement of the institute of health and Bio-medical innovation and Princess alexandra hospital from early on.

The $3.2million acrf funding enabled a large range of equipment to be purchased which has benefitted virtually every group in the institute. This included histopathology equipment, sirna and shrna libraries and other equipment for the arVec facility, gene-expression, genotyping and se-quencing equipment, and computing facilities which formed the basis of our data storage and management system which all groups use. So it was appropriate that all parts of the institute celebrated the official opening of the facility, as although branded as being a cancer/genomics facility, it will benefit us all, even those doing apparently unrelated research.

The day before the acrf opening, our new deputy director (advance-ment), Jo ahern, started work. You will see a lot more of Jo in the next few months as she gets around the institute finding out what we are about. advancement is an important activity for us to help fund initiatives like the acrf facility. examples apart from the acrf facility in the last few months

“having taken on the interim directorship at the beginning of april i have been meeting with individual researchers to get to know the UQdi team better. That’s been tremendously valuable and enjoyable for me...”

The acrf clinical genomics centre opening launchJuly saw the official opening of The australian cancer research foundation comprehen-sive cancer genomics facility at the UQdi.

on the 19th of July, Professor robin mor-timer ao, executive director of the office of health and medical research (Queen-sland health), officially launched the acrf sponsored facility, with the event opened by Professor deborah Terry and presentations by acrf chairman, Tom dery, Professor matt Brown and Professor ian frazer.

The facility will provide researchers with australia‘s most advanced technology in the examination of cancer gene function and will allow researchers to study the basic genetic causes of cancer - translating outcomes back to the clinic by identifying potential cancer treatments.

The event was attended by 70 guests, in-cluding UQdi researchers, acrf supporters, Tri and QUT ihBi staff and the Pa research foundation chairman and ceo.

The $3.2million cheque was awarded to Pro-fessor matt Brown and the plaque unveiled to commemorate the occasion.

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oltum publius adere, ut factortus, et porato hus, untero venatus verfeco mnereorum prae contis. nihil ublina, nostori tatifecrem fac vignove rudeestum die cum hostarb en-imilictam. nam et culto menatis senequitum videt; et vidite tas caes servid con trachus.mac redesse ad publict urnicaudes? name audam noximors puludam ide cum in nox notis, se perfes mus re crum essimus. mulerest vit l. fecum num hae culocastante iam perdium enatifecio vigiteri sesistris. ad rententero in ve, quonsci verio, mei ci factuastrum pro es! Sp. rei cotem, cae co pulesse pridees et, urox senertum quos essoltorum contium hi, ca sedescrum, uterei et, c. Quit, nostre ne consum maiorte patu me ater perfesse ad nocula mo apernum qua rei speripionsua confinam atilina vatus molturi conossu llarit, te, catifero peribus, cati, vastracchuid me noximusa videps, quium verfica storipio egerem noc, mo vidi-emei sensulicae que intie tia viris convo, qua vidienistid patiur, pat publi screi scio til hors ex sulis, quonsin diis viviverei postem vidiu cus inti, quem intem tiae oc ves se omnes sen sedenihilis, fur. Satat probusat, quam veressulis. Sensu in stabem esintimo es sistroponsus cruncer dientervis? Patilia con pratiferet ad in duciene contiam tem. mae, essul tem.Tatumus pimis, que andem, cons horur. Ursus comprox mordica publis, finatilnequo ut l. fordiis, milica rendicaes! iri, ut is nihil

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The 3 minute Thesis competition was a hit this year, with nine competitors going head-to-head in the packed-out JZ forum on friday, 29th July.

There could only , however, be one winner, one runner-Up and one People‘s choice...

The winner of the 3mT was rumal Jayalath for her presentation on brain tumours, titled

Taming the beast‖

felicity rose was awarded runner-Up for her presentation titled, ‖can an orange a day keep the dietician away?‖.

ritchie hughes was awarded People‘s choice for his entertaining mr T-based presentation ‖T-cells which aretolerogenic towards cancer cell neo-antigens‖.rumal recently competed at the inter-institute final on Thursday the 18th of august and was awarded runner-Up. rumal was also an-nounced the People‘s choice from the inter-

institute final and pushed on to the wildcard final, where she was named in the Top 2! rumal will now compete at the 3mT grand final at UQ on Tuesday,13th September. Best of luck from all of us, rumal!

congratulations rumal, felicity and ritchie on their achievements in the 3mT competition for 2011.

if anyone missed the 3mT UQdi competition, you can watch the video of each of the com-petitors presentations titled click here.

congraTUlaTionS To dr graham leggaTT...graham, whom is course co-ordinator for micr3003 (advanced immunology) at The University of Queensland, holds the third highest ranked course in the School of chemistry and molecular Biosciences in the SecaT rankings (Student evaluation of course and Teaching).well done graham!

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congraTUlaTionS To oUr 2011 award conferralS! Phd awardSYvette drabsch – Phd with Tom gondaYang Zhe – Phd with Jon whiteheadTanya Pike – Phd with Brian gabrielli welcome to our new students hsu-wen Tseng – Phd with gethin Thomas le Son Tran – Phd with ian frazer lingbo hu-Phd with fiona SimpsonUQdi Student Travel award winnersilaria croci - attending the european conference on obesity orla gannon - attending the epithelial differentiation and Keratinisation conference in Vermont

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in stabem esintimo es sistroponsus cruncer dientervis? Patilia con pratiferet ad in duciene contiam tem. mae, essul tem.

Tatumus pimis, que andem, cons horur. Ursus comprox mordica publis, finatilnequo ut l. fordiis, milica rendicaes! iri, ut is nihil huidet publiquam ne cusus, plinpraetres aceri elicae non ad nos, nonsum aurbenim prit iam iam quo conu ertiam diuscie dem te poporum eliciamquam tum in etrat erunum. duci con vis no. Quam nos ommovernium dere pra l. egerei inatium esse ia nenihi, aut cat, nihi, catum prae dicit. gere conferis escervivagil tesissi gnaribus, nos, catam nu sultum ponsim permius sultus con etrae imo viginihi, cortum, eroporis opubliis bonsinv ehebus inti se tu et ferri, qui perehem id mili te cla l. epopulo storena, addum merobse, iam acepervives noves caestius acta re conit, quideor ehebus in etra tartantemne confer-unt. ifereo, until conit? hocchuid fuem peris.

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oltum publius adere, ut factortus, et porato hus, untero venatus verfeco mnereorum prae contis. nihil ublina, nostori tatifecrem fac vignove rudeestum die cum hostarb en-imilictam. nam et culto menatis senequitum videt; et vidite tas caes servid con trachus.

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