MoU signing between University Departments of Rural Health Deakin University Monash University University of Melbourne to formalise their already strong partnership in #ruralhealth

Jon Watson will step down as Dean Deakin Uni Medicine on July 26th after serving with great distinction since August 2013. The School is incredibly grateful for Jon's inspirational leadership, vision, professionalism & collegiality. Karen Dwyer will serve as Acting Dean.

Congratulations to Prof Craig Woods on receiving the 2019 IACLE Contact Lens Educator of the Year (Asia) during the BCLA conference in Manchester (UK).

School Seminar by Assoc Prof Frey Fowkes (#Burnet Institute) ‘Eliminating Drug Resistant Malaria: How do we stop history repeating itself?’ Deakin University Waurn Ponds dd4.101 Friday 12 July 12pm #DeakinResearch

School Seminar by Dr Matthew Dixon (#The University of Melbourne) ‘Nano-scale imaging of malaria parasite architecture’ Deakin University Waurn Ponds dd4.101 Friday 19 July 12pm #DeakinResearch

School Seminar by Dr Emma Burrows (#Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health) ‘Dissecting clinically relevant attentional abnormalities in a mouse model of Autism Spectrum Disorder’ Deakin University Waurn Ponds dd4.101 Friday 26 July 12pm #DeakinResearch

Our new 2020 SOM Honours Course Director Jeff Craig talks to interested students about the Honours course at the Deakin Uni Medicine information session. Fantastic discussion between staff and students throughout the evening!

School Seminar by Dr Tetyana Rocks (#Deakin University) ‘Diet and Mental Health: An Update from the Food and Mood Centre’ Deakin University Waurn Ponds dd4.101 Friday 2nd August 12pm #DeakinResearch

School Seminar by Dr Jacquie Bay (#The University of Auckland) ‘Outreach is outdated: The potential of school-university partnerships to engage adolescents as agents of evidence-based actions for health’ Deakin University Waurn Ponds dd4.101 Friday 9th August 12pm #DeakinResearch

School Seminar by Professor Phil Hansbro (#University of Technology Sydney) ‘Understanding pathogenesis to develop new treatments for chronic respiratory diseases’ Deakin University Waurn Ponds dd4.101 Friday 23rd August 12pm #DeakinResearch

School Seminar by Dr Michelle Rank (#The University of Melbourne) ‘Thinking outside the brain: finding and promoting plasticity beyond the cortex’ Deakin University Waurn Ponds dd4.101 Friday 30th August 12pm #DeakinResearch

School Seminar by Dr Prof Geetha Ranmuthugala (#University of New England) ‘Epigenetics of rural health’ Deakin University Waurn Ponds dd4.101 Friday 6th September 12pm #DeakinResearch

School Seminar by Dr Amanda Douglass (#Deakin University) ‘Analysing eye movements – a diverse range of applications’ Deakin University Waurn Ponds dd4.101 Friday 13th September 12pm #DeakinResearch

School Seminar by Prof Edward M. Campbell PhD (#Loyola University Chicago) ‘Infection, propagation, inflammation: How cellular responses drive disease states’ Deakin University Waurn Ponds dd4.101 Friday 20th September 12pm #DeakinResearch

School Seminar by Dr Sharon Huebner (#The University of Melbourne) 'The practice of engaging Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in Microbiome Research using digital learning tools' Deakin University Waurn Ponds dd4.101 Friday 4th October 12pm #DeakinResearch

Great job Jeff Craig and Stambas Lab - and especially the students! Excellent talks and exciting results!

School Seminar by Associate Professor Paul Gooley (#The University of Melbourne) ‘Activation of the GPCR relaxin receptor (RXFP1) is by a tethered agonist’ Deakin University Waurn Ponds dd4.101 Friday 11th October 12pm #DeakinResearch

School Seminar by Dr Eduard Willms (#La Trobe University) ‘Extracellular Vesicle heterogeneity’ Deakin University Waurn Ponds dd4.101 Friday 13th March 12pm #DeakinResearch

A big shout out to @mcccgptraining for supporting medical students Deakin Uni Medicine to undertake an elective in a rural general practice via 2 prizes to assist students with their associated travel and living expenses.

School Seminar by A/Prof Heung-Chin Cheng (#University of Melbourne) ‘Construction of an atlas of signalling events associated with excitotoxic neuronal death using multi-dimensional proteomic analysis’ Deakin University Waurn Ponds dd4.101 Friday 20th March 12pm #DeakinResearch