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Congratulations Congratulations to Dr Warren Rozen on being awarded best oral presentation at the 19th Biennial Congress of ISAPS, Melbourne, Australia 10-13 February 2008. Presentation on Radiological Advances in the preoperative Imaging of the Abdominal Wall for Breast Reconstruction (Abstract #654). Scientific Presentation. Authors; Warren Rozen, Mark Ashton, Namrata Anavekar, Damien Grinsell, Richard Bloom, Damien Stella, Timothy Phillips, G Ian Taylor. Dr Warren Rozen has also been nominated for the James Barrett Brown Award 2008 for his paper Rozen WM, Ashton MW, Pan WR, Taylor GI. Raising Perforator Flaps for Breast Reconstruction: The Intramuscular Anatomy of the DIEA. Plast Reconstr Surg 120(6): 1443-1449, November 2007. Congratulations also to Julia Freidgeim, Honours student, for her outstanding effort on being awarded the Bryan Scholarship in Biological Science 2007. This prize is awarded on the recommendation of the Faculty of Science to a student who has completed their Bachelor of Science degree and is undertaking the course of Bachelor of Science (degree with Honours) in a branch of the Natural Sciences. Invitation to ACB Seminar Series The next seminar for 2008 will be "Probing neural development using RNAi in chicken embryos: Dissection of a signalling pathway controlling motor neuron migration at a CNS/PNS interface" by Dr Romke Bron, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Melbourne. The seminar will be on Friday 9th May at 4.00pm in the Jones Theatre, Level 3, Medical Building. Please come along. Seminar schedule for semester 1 [PDF 89kb] 2008 Research Projects The research projects booklet for 2008 is available now (this includes Honours, PhD, AMS and 516-307, Research Project). Click on the PDF link for details. [ PDF 717kb ] Humanity's Mirror: 150 Years of Anatomy in Melbourne The Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2006; the discipline of Anatomy has been taught for over 150 years at The University of Melbourne. To celebrate this occasion, historian Dr. Ross L. Jones has produced a lively and intriguing account of the sometimes stormy history of Anatomy teaching in Melbourne. Click here for details. New Book from Dr Liz Vincan, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology *Wnt Signaling: Methods and Model Systems, edited by Elizabeth Vincan* (University of Melbourne), a forthcoming volume in the best selling Methods in Molecular Biology series from Humana Press, includes both assays (biochemical read-out) and model systems (functional read-out) of Wnt signaling. The chapters in this two volume issue are written by leaders in the field (more information soon at http://www.humanapress.com).