Kaarin Anstey receives a senior researcher award from the Journal of Mental Health and Prevention. Professor Anstey is deputy director of the ARC’s Centre of Excellence in Ageing and Popular Research.

Rosemary Kayess (UNSW) is elected chair of the UN’s Committee on the rights of people with disabilities.

Shabih Shakeel takes up his appointment as lab head at WEHI (that’s the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for people who did not get the memo about the new abbreviated name).  His lab will research heterochromatin, which apparently is, “the dark matter of genome.”