Research School of Biology best PhD thesis and ANU J G Crawford Prize finalist (2018)
2017
Kiaran Kirk
Elected to the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences
Adelaide Dennis
Best short (5 min) talk at the annual meeting of the Australian Society for Parasitology
2016
Adele Lehane (DECRA Fellow)
Best Talk by an Early Career Researcher at the International Congress for Tropical Medicine and Malaria
2015
Adele Lehane (Senior Postdoc & Lab Manager)
Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Award (DECRA)
Adelaide Dennis (PhD student)
Selected to play for the Australian Women's team 'the Firetails' at the World Ultimate [Frisbee] Championships in London (June, 2016) [Not really a lab award, but exciting nonetheless]
2014
Esther Rajendran (PhD student)
'Student talk' award at the 50th anniversary annual meeting of the Australian Society for Parasitology.
2013
Esther Rajendran (PhD student)
Selected as one of 16 international students to participate in Woods Hole Biology of Parasitism course.
Natalie Spillman (Postdoc)
NHMRC Overseas Biomedical Fellowship.
2012
Natalie Spillman (Postdoc)
American-Australian Association Fellowship.
2011
Natalie Spillman (PhD student)
Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Fellowship and Collins Bursary for travel overseas.
Christina Spry (Postdoc)
NHMRC Overseas Biomedical Fellowship.
2010
Richard Allen (Postdoc)
NHMRC Australian Biomedical Fellowship.
2009
Adele Lehane (PhD student)
NHMRC Overseas Biomedical Fellowship.
Selected by the Australian Academy of Science to represent Australia at the 59th meeting of Nobel Laureates (together with early-career researchers) in Lindau, Germany.
Natalie Spillman (PhD student)
Selected as one of 16 international students to participate in Woods Hole Biology of Parasitism course.
2008
Adele Lehane (PhD student)
Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Fellowship and the Society’s President Award (for the top-ranked Fellowship awardee) for travel overseas.
Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology’s Mannatech Award for Modern Metabolic Biochemistry, for the paper: Feedback inhibition of pantothenate kinase regulates pantothenol uptake by the malaria parasite (2007) J. Biol. Chem. 282, 25395-25405 by Lehane, A.M., Marchetti, R.V., Spry, C., van Schalkwyk, D.A., Teng, R., Kirk, K. and Saliba K.J.
Early Career Researcher Poster Prize at the Molecular Approaches to Malaria meeting, Lorne, Australia.
Runner-up for the ‘student talk’ award at the annual meeting of the Australian Society for Parasitology and the ARC/NHMRC Parasitology Network.
Natalie Spillman (PhD student)
Student Oral/Poster Prize at the annual meeting of the Australian Society for Parasitology and the ARC/NHMRC Parasitology Network.
Robert Summers (Hons student)
ANU University Medal in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
2007
Simon Cobbold (PhD student)
Student Poster Prize at the annual meeting of the Australian Society for Parasitology and the ARC/NHMRC Parasitology Network.
Adele Lehane (PhD student)
Australian Society for Medical Research Award for travel within Australia.
Selected as one of 16 international students to participate in Woods Hole Biology of Parasitism course.
Rowena Martin (Research Officer)
NHMRC Australian Biomedical Fellowship.
Early Career Researcher Prize for best talk at the annual meeting of the Australian Society for Parasitology and the ARC/NHMRC Parasitology Network.
2005
Richard Allen (PhD student)
Australian Society for Medical Research Award for travel overseas.
2004
Roselani Henry (PhD student)
Australian Bicentennial Scholarship for travel to the UK.
2003
Richard Allen (PhD student)
Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Fellowship for travel overseas.
2001
Rowena Martin (PhD student)
Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Student Poster Prize at the annual ‘Combined Biology Society’ (ComBio) meeting.
Previous Kirk Lab members
Markus Winterberg (Postdoc 2009-2014; Lab Head, MORU, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand)
Natalie Spillman (PhD 2012; APS, Canberra)
Christina Spry (Postdoc 2010-2011; Research Officer, Research School of Biology, ANU)
Simon Cobbold (PhD 2011; NHMRC Research Officer, Department of Biochemistry, University of Melbourne)
Rongwei Teng (Postdoc 2005-2008; Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority, Canberra)
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