The Peter W. Smith CSL Postgraduate Award recognises the most outstanding peer-reviewed publication in the preceding 12 months by a University of Tasmania postgraduate student that made extensive use of Central Science Laboratory (CSL) facilities and expertise.
The prize honours the vision and commitment of the late Dr Peter W. Smith OAM for the formation and continued successful operation of the CSL, and was instigated in 2014 to commemorate the 40th anniversary of establishment of the university facility.
The recipient for 2023 is Ms Yasmine Doust from The Wicking Dementia Centre.
Yasmine’s paper “Temporal changes in the microglial proteome of male and female mice after a diffuse brain injury using a label-free quantitative proteomics” was published in the journal GLIA (IF 6.2). This study makes an important contribution to our understanding of the effect of traumatic brain injury on microglial function, and highlighted alterations in molecular pathways related to inflammation, phagocytosis, insulin and oestrogen-mediated signalling.
Yasmine’s work made extensive use of CSL facilities and expertise in data-independent acquisition mass spectrometry, overseen by proteomics expert Dr Richard Wilson.
Congratulations Yasmine.
A full copy of Yasmine’s work can be found here.
