SCIENCE AT THE SHINE DOME canberra 4 - 6 may 2005
Symposium: Recent advances in stem cell science and therapies
Friday, 6 May 2005
Chairs of sessions
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Julie Campbell is a Senior Principal Research Fellow of the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia, Director of the Centre for Research in Vascular Biology at the University of Queensland, and Director of the Wesley Research Institute at the Wesley Hospital. Her major research interest over the last 30 years has been the cell biology of vascular smooth muscle in the normal artery wall and in diseased states such as atherosclerosis. Recently she developed a vascular conduit, grown in the peritoneal cavity, from autologus bone marrow-derived cells. In 1995 she was awarded the Wellcome Australia Medal and in 2000 was elected to the Australian Academy of Science. In 2004 she was named a 'Queensland Great'. |
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Jim Peacock is a Research Fellow of CSIRO Plant Industry in Canberra Australia, one of the world's leading plant research institutes. His laboratory is recognised internationally in the field of plant molecular biology and its applications in agriculture. He was made a Companion of the Order of Australia, Australia's highest honour, for his contribution to the nation. Dr Peacock is a Fellow of The Royal Society of London, and the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering. In 1990 he was elected as a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences and a Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy. In 2000 he was a co-recipient of the Inaugural Prime Minister's Science Prize. In February 1988 he was awarded the BHP Bicentennial Prize for the Pursuit of Excellence in Science and Technology. In December 1989 he was awarded a CSIRO Medal for his leadership of CSIRO Plant Industry. He is a Member of the Prime Minister's Science, Engineering and Innovation Council and one of the four appointments to the Australian Innovation Council. |
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Roger Short is a reproductive biologist who started life as a vet in Britain before coming to Australia in 1982 as a Professor of Physiology at Monash University. He is currently a Professorial Fellow in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Melbourne. His current research is focused on developing new ways to stop HIV transmission in developing countries. He has also been keenly interested in the scientific and ethical debates surrounding therapeutic cloning and stem cells, and in 1999 he and Professor Malcolm Potts of the University of California, Berkeley published Ever Since Adam and Eve: The Evolution of Human Sexuality (Cambridge University Press), an illustrated account of the evolution of our ideas about human reproduction, from Aristotle to the present day. It has been translated into Italian, Spanish, Korean, and is due to appear in Chinese this month. He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 1984 and is a Member of the Order of Australia. |
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Alan Trounson is Professor of Stem Cell Sciences and Director, Monash Immunology and Stem Cell Laboratories at Monash University, and the Founder and Executive Vice Chairman of the National Biotechnology Centre of Excellence, the Australian Stem Cell Centre, as well as Global Scientific Strategy Advisor. His scientific accomplishments include the pioneering of human in vitro fertilisation (IVF) and associated reproductive technologies; the diagnosis of inherited genetic disease in preimplantation embryos; the discovery and production of human embryonic stem cells and their ability to be directed into neurones, prostate tissue and respiratory tissue. He is on the Victorian Government's Innovation Economy Advisory Board, and is a Director of the Victorian Endowment for Science, Knowledge and Innovation. His present research interests are focused on human embryonic stem cells and their suitability for transplantation for the treatment of inflammatory lung disease and cystic fibrosis. |
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John White is Professor of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry at the Research School of Chemistry at the Australian National University. He obtained his PhD from Oxford University in England, where he was also an ICI Research Fellow and a Fellow of St John's College. He was the Director of the Institut Laue Langevin at Grenoble in France and President of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society in London and President of Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering. Research interests include structural analysis of polymers using X-ray and neutron scattering techniques, surfactant monolayers, proteins at the air-water and oil-water interfaces, emulsions and molecular template-directed inorganic synthesis from gels. He is also interested in biomineralisation and the response of molecular assemblies to mechanical and electrical stress. |
