Early Career Researcher of the year!

An excellent Chrissy party this year by the Faculty of Science at UNSW I was honoured this afternoon with the Faculty of Science Early Career Researcher of the Year! A great reason to skip out on half a days work and...

Academic Beard of the Month!

I was just given the honour of being named Academic Beard of the Month for December! This is obviously excellent news and it feels great given some of the other beards I’m placed in league with at Academic...

Well done Rachel!

Rachel successfully completed her honours project today, finishing up her project with an excellent presentation! Rachel holds a special place in the Kasumovic Lab as she was the first honours student in the lab. She’s set quite the standard!...

Maddie passes!

Congrats to Maddie as she successfully completed her qualifying exam. Now she’s a ‘real’ Ph.D. student! (Well, she always was in my books, but the Americans have some strange rules…) Well done!...

Scopus Young Investigator of the year

I was given an incredible honour this week by being awarded the Australasian  Scopus Young Investigator of the Year in Biological & Life Sciences. It was a wonderful ceremony up at Surfer’s paradise and was a lot of fun meeting the other winners....

Good things come in threes

The more I talk to people, the more people seem to agree that it has definitely been a tough year. But thankfully we got this paper accepted to make it three this year! Kasumovic, M.M., M. D. Hall, H. Try, and R. Brooks. 2012. Developmental plasticity affects...