Kirk Lab: Awards and Previous Members
Lab awards
2019
- Adelaide Dennis (PhD student)
- 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 (PhD student)
- 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 (Postdoctoral Fellow)
- 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; Research Officer, Department of Biochemistry, University of Melbourne)
- Rongwei Teng (Postdoc 2005-2008; Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority, Canberra)
- Pauline Junankar (Research Officer 1997-2009; retired)
- Megan Downie (PhD 2006; APS, Canberra)
- Roselani Henry (PhD 2006; GP, Cairns)
- Rhys Hayward (PhD 2005; APS, Canberra)
- Rowena Martin (PhD 2005)
- Lisa Alleva (Postdoc 1999-2001; ACT Department of Health, Canberra)
- Kevin Saliba (Postdoc 1997-2005; Professor, Research School of Biology, ANU)
- Amanda Nourse (Postdoc 1997-2000)
- Ari Karjalainen (Postdoc 1997-2000; Scientific Officer, Toxicologist, at the European Chemicals Agency in Helsinki, Finland)
- Henry Staines (DPhil 1997; Research Fellow, St George's Hospital, London, UK)
- James Bursell (DPhil 1996; Consultant Paediatrician, Milton Keynes General Hospital, Milton Keynes, UK)
- James Hall (DPhil 1996; CEO, Athera Biotechnologies)
- Rachel Lewis (Research Assistant 1994-1995; Consultant Paediatrician, New York, USA)
- Heather Horner (Research Assistant 1993-1996; retired).