PUBLIC LECTURE

Hooked on Science Tour of Australia

Professor Elizabeth Blackburn was born in Tasmania and studied at the University of Melbourne. She first became interested in science in high school when she started reading books about how the molecules of life work. Elizabeth went on to make a medical discovery so important that she became the first Australian woman to win a Nobel Prize.

Now based in the USA, Elizabeth is travelling to Australia to speak to junior and middle high school students about her passion, struggles and successes, and the exciting science relating to cancer and ageing that led to her 2009 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.

Tour dates:

Thursday 14 June, 10 AM – 12 noon
NAB Auditorium, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, 384 Victoria Street, Darlinghurst, NSW

Monday 18 June, 10 AM – 12 noon
Institute for Molecular Bioscience, the University of Queensland, 306 Carmody Road, St Lucia, QLD

Tuesday 19 June
Telomeres & telomerase:  implications for understanding cancer and ageing in humans
Wesley Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD

Thursday 21 June, 10 AM – 12 noon
Shine Dome, Gordon Street, Canberra, ACT

Tuesday 26 June, 10 AM – 12 noon
Stanley Burbury Theatre, Sandy Bay Campus, University of Tasmania, TAS

Wednesday 27 June, 10 AM – 12 noon
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, 1G Royal Parade, Parkville

This tour is sponsored by The Atlantic Philanthropies, the Governments of Queensland, NSW, ACT, Victoria and Tasmania, the Australian National University and the University of Tasmania.