SCIENCE AT THE SHINE DOME canberra 30 April – 2 May 2003

New Fellows seminar
Wednesday 30 April
Professor Perry Bartlett
Professor (Foundation Chair) of Molecular Neuroscience, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Queensland
Neuronal production in the brain
Professor Rossiter Crozier
Professor (Personal Chair), School of Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Queensland
Social structure and its consequences
Professor Michael Hynes
Professor, Department of Genetics, University of Melbourne
Molecular genetics of filamentous fungi
Professor Frederick Mendelsohn
Director, Howard Florey Institute of Experimental Physiology and Medicine, University of Melbourne
Neuropeptides in the brain: from blood pressure to memory
Professor Richard Shine
Professor in Evolutionary Biology (Personal Chair), University of Sydney
Serpents in Eden: the ecology of snakes in tropical Australia
Dr Andreas Strasser
Principal Research Fellow, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne
Cell death control in mammals in health and disease
Professor Robert Sutherland
Director, Cancer Research Program, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney
Molecular mechanisms of breast and prostate cancer pathogenesis
Professor Stephen Tyerman
Professor and Head of Discipline of Viticulture, Department of Horticulture, Viticulture and Oenology, University of Adelaide
Water and neutral solute transport through water channels in plant membranes
Dr David Vaux
Principal Research Fellow, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne
Conserved mechanisms of physiological cell death
Professor Mark von Itzstein
Professor and Director, Centre for Biomolecular Science and Drug Discovery, Griffith University, Queensland
Carbohydrates – sweet talk
Professor Robert Bilger
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, School of Aerospace Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, University of Sydney
Flame structure and combustion modelling
Professor Peter Drummond
Professor of Theoretical Physics, University of Queensland
Quantum theory of 'singing': atom lasers
Professor David Groves
Professor (Personal Chair) of Geology and Director, Centre for Global Metallogeny, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Western Australia
Holistic models for orogenic gold deposits and significance to mineral exploration
Professor Anthony Guttmann
Professor of Mathematics (Personal Chair), Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne
Lattice models of critical phenomena
Professor Gerard Milburn
Deputy Director, Centre for Quantum Computer Technology, University of Queensland
The physics of information
Professor Suzanne O'Reilly
Director, GEMOC, Division of Environmental and Life Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney
Journey to the centre of the Earth
Professor Maria Orlowska
Professor of Information Systems, Head of Information Systems Division and Deputy Head of School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland
The future of distributed database processing
Professor Hyam Rubinstein
Professor and Head of Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne
Recognition algorithms for knots, surfaces and 3-dimensional regions
Professor Bruce Wild
Professor, Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, Canberra
Inorganic stereochemistry and asymmetric synthesis
Professor James Williams
Professor and Director, Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra
Ion irradiation of semiconductors: Novel science and technologically-important applications