Announcing the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the WA Branch of the Statistical Society of Australia.

Date: Tuesday, 14 March 2023

Time (AWST): 5:15PM to 6:00PM (AGM), 6:00PM to 7:00PM (Guest Lecture).

Location: Cheryl Praeger Lecture Room, The University of Western Australia and online via Zoom.

Non-members of the SSA WA Branch may be present but cannot vote on AGM matters. Following the AGM, at 6:00PM, we shall hear from Associate Professor Silvana Gaudieri who will deliver the guest lecture.

Presentation

High-resolution analysis of the human immune response to pathogens: implications for vaccine design

Dr Silvana Gaudieri - Associate Professor, The University of Western Australia.

Our group utilises next generation sequencing technologies to examine how variation in the host and viral genome impacts specific anti-viral immune responses at the single cell level. Such analyses have identified signatures of an effective immune response to specific viruses and following sequential vaccinations. Overall, our high-resolution approach can help understand the differential outcomes following viral infection and inform vaccine design.

About the Speaker

Associate Professor Silvana Gaudieri is the Head of the Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Human Biology in the School of Human Sciences. She is also head of a research group examining host-viral interactions and has >20 years of experience in examining viruses and the host’s immune response to these pathogens including seminal studies demonstrating the adaptation of viruses (such as Hepatitis C, Hepatitis B and HIV) to immune responses at a population level. She has been involved in innovating novel and high-throughput approaches for epitope discovery and immunophenotyping of T cell responses. This work has been funded by both international and national funding bodies and has resulted in >100 publications.

Silvana is also involved in teaching at both the undergraduate and postgraduate level into the areas of genetics, immunology and biological anthropology. She has a strong teaching-research nexus and has also supervised to completion over 30 Honours, Masters and PhD students.

Refreshments and Dinner

Members and visitors are invited to mingle over wine and cheese from 5:00PM onwards at the venue.

Following the meeting all are invited to dine at a nearby restaurant. Visitors are welcome.

Meeting directions

The Cheryl Praeger Lecture Room is located on the ground floor of the Mathematics building at The University of Western Australia. Its entrance is on the northern side of the building. See: UWA Maps, Google Maps.

Parking is free on the UWA Crawley campus after 5:00PM. A convenient place to park is Car Park 18 accessible from Fairway Entry 1.

Remote Viewing Option

For those that cannot attend in-person, the presentation will be streamed live over Zoom. Please register on this page to get the connection details.

For further information please contact the WA Branch Secretary (ssa.wa.secretary@gmail.com).