SCIENCE AT THE SHINE DOME canberra 6 - 8 may 2009

Chairs

Annual Symposium: Evolution of the universe, planets, life and thought
Friday, 8 May 2009

Professor Jenny Graves FAA
Professorial Fellow, Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra

Jenny Graves has a highly acclaimed international reputation for her work in mammalian genetics and comparative genomics on Australian marsupials and monotremes. Her research has raised profound questions about human biology and mammalian evolution. She has made extensive ground-breaking discoveries relating to the cell cycle, control of DNA replication, evolution of the mammalian genome and the function and evolution of sex chromosomes. She graduated from Adelaide University and received a Fulbright award to undertake a PhD in Molecular Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. Jenny was selected as the 2006 laureate for the Asia-Pacific region L’Oréal-UNESCO Awards for women in science. She is a Research Director at the Australian Research Council Centre for Kangaroo Genomics.