All Menzies Memorial Scholars

DR MISTY JENKINS
2008 NH MRC/RG Menzies Fellowship

Education

Bachelor of Science (Hons), 2001, University of Melbourne

PhD, University of Melbourne

Misty will take up her NH MRC/RG Menzies Fellowship in 2009 at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, UK. Her study is "Investigating how killer T cells deliver their lethal hit".

Background

Misty is of Gunditjmara descent and was born in Ballarat, where she attended the local public school.  She was awarded a scholarship to study Science at The University of Melbourne, where she subsequently graduated with first class honours.  Misty worked in a laboratory researching epilepsy, but her real passion was to study the immune system.  She was intrigued by infectious disease and was keen to work with influenza virus.  She completed her PhD with Nobel Laureate Peter Doherty and Dr Stephen Turner at the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Melbourne, where she studied how T cells (white blood cells) fight influenza infection.  Particularly, the focus of her research is to understand how T cells become armed with the cytotoxic weapons that they use to destroy virally infected cells (and cancerous cells), at the single cell level. This research led her to Oxford University, and then Cambridge University, where she continues her work on T cell killing.  This research will improve our understanding of how T cells function, which will enable us to identify novel therapeutic targets. 

Jan 2010

DR MARK JENKINSON
1994 Menzies Scholar in Engineering

Education:
D Phil, Robotics Research Group, University of Oxford, in the area of Computer Vision.  Thesis title: Saliency in Image Analysis supervised by Prof Sir Michael Brady
BE in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Hons I), University of Adelaide
BSc in Mathematical Physics (Hons I), University of Adelaide 

Career History:
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (FMRI) is a recent non-invasive technique for investigating which areas in the living human brain are active when certain tasks are being performed.  Mark's research at the FMRIB centre, Unversity of Oxford, has concentrated on relating functional and structural information in FMRI and on the modelling and correction of MR artefacts. 

Co-founder and principal developer of the FSL software package, used in over 1000 laboratories worldwide.

Current position:
Head of Structural Image Analysis and Physics Modelling within the Analysis Group at the FMRIB Centre (University of Oxford), John Radcliffe Hospital.

Research interests:
Registration and Motion Correction of MRI/FMRI Brain Images, Modelling and Reduction of MR Artefacts, Anatomically-based Segmentation, Group Statistical Modelling, Shape Representation

Jul 2006

NICOLE JOSHUA
2007 Menzies Scholar in the Allied Health Sciences

Nicole holds the degree of BSc (Psychology and Psychophysiology) from Swinburne University (2004).

Nicole's PhD project entitled "An investigation into configural processing and facial emotion perception in schizophrenia" is being carried out at the Mental Health Research Institute, Melbourne.

Aug 2007