Graduation Doctorate Citation
Please submit this completed form to the relevant Research Higher Degree Administrative Officer in
your Faculty, by the due date listed on the Graduation website: www.flinders.edu.au/currentstudents/graduation-beyond/graduation/.
Please note: Candidates enrolled in the Faculty of Science and Engineering do not have to
complete this form as this task is carried out by your Principal Supervisor.
The citation will be included in the graduation book when students are awarded their degree,
including absentia graduates. If you are attending the Graduation ceremony, your thesis title will be
read out along with the 2-3 short sentences about your thesis provided by you. For both, please
identify the key contributions and significance of the research that is in a style easily understood by
graduands, their families and guests.
For contact details and a Citation sample, please refer to the following page.
Name:
Student ID:
Faculty:
Thesis Title:
Citation (please limit your wording to 150 words):
2-3 short sentences describing what your thesis aimed to do, the main outcomes
and why they are important, please write in the third person (only provide if you are
attending the ceremony):
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Faculty Research Higher Degree Officers
Faculty of Education, Humanities & Law
ehlrhd@flinders.edu.au
Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
Ms Ashleigh Merriel – Telephone: (08) 8201 5470
Email: ashleigh.merriel@flinders.edu.au or health.rhd@flinders.edu.au
Faculty of Social & Behavioural Sciences
Ms Patricia Berry – Telephone: (08) 8201 2160
Email: patricia.berry@flinders.edu.au or sbs.rhd@flinders.edu.au
Sample Citation and short sentences
Name
D*** C***
Student ID:
20*****
Thesis Title:
Lipopolysaccharide and immune modulation
Citation (please limit your wording to 150 words):
Over the past 40 years there has been a substantial increase in the prevalence of allergic and autoimmune
diseases.
Children growing up in developing settings or in farming environments are relatively spared from these
diseases.
This work focussed on the possible role of LPS – a molecule found on the surface of many bacteria, in
explaining this protection at a molecular level.
Having first shown the cellular distribution of immune receptors for LPS in mouse lung, Mr Coppin
demonstrated that cells involved in protection against allergy and autoimmunity were substantially boosted
by long term exposure to inhaled LPS and were functionally reduced by antibiotics which cleared the LPS
bearing bacteria from the normal gut bacterial populations.
This provides strong evidence that LPS is an important molecule in our environment which functions to
moderate the mammalian immune system and reduce the risk of allergy and autoimmunity.
2-3 short sentences:
Mr Coppin explored the role of Lipopolysaccharide in the prevention of allergy and autoimmunity. He
provided a cellular and molecular explanation as to how this molecule plays a key role in moderating immune
allergic responses.
Updated by OGR: 27 November 2013
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