Science at the Shine Dome 2012
Admission of New Fellows and New Fellows seminar
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Program booklet (including biographies and abstracts)
| New Fellows seminar Wednesday 2 May 2012 |
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| 9.00am | Welcome Professor Suzanne Cory AC PresAA FRS President, Australian Academy of Science |
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| 9.05am | Formal admission of new Fellows | ||
| Session 1 | |||
| Chairs: Professor Peter Hall FAA FRS, Professor Marilyn Renfree FAA | |||
| 9.30am | Professor James McCluskey FAA Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne Genetic control of the immune response |
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| 9.45am | Professor David Albert Cooper AO FAA Kirby Institute for Infection and Immunity in Society A modern medical miracle: the history of HIV antiretroviral theropy development |
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| 10.00am | Professor Paul Leslie Burn FAA Centre for Organic Photonics and Electronics, University of Queensland Plastic optoelectronics: using light to detect explosives |
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| 10.15am | Professor Michael Edward Goddard FAA School of Land and Environment, University of Melbourne Genetic architecture of complex traits and prediction of genetic value |
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| 10.30am | Morning Tea | ||
| 11.00am | Professor Patrick De Deckker AM FAA Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University Palaeo-oceanography: a window into the past behaviour of the oceans in our region |
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| 11.15am | Professor Joss Bland-Hawthorn FAA Institute of Photonics and Optical Science, University of Sydney Molding the flow of light: photonics in Astronomy |
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| 11.30am | Professor John Arthur Endler FAA School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University Through animals' eyes: new insights into sexual selection in Australian bowerbirds |
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| 11.45am | Professor Timothy Fridtjof Flannery FAA Environmental Sustainability, Macquarie University Why are we failing to communicate science? |
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| 12.00pm | Professor Johannes Thieo Lambers FAA School of Plant Biology, University of Western Australia Phosphorus: the disappearing nutrient |
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| 12.15pm | Professor Michael Alpers AO FAA FRS Centre for International Health, Curtin University Solving the puzzle of kuru and determining the shape of the kuru epidemic and studying malaria and pneumonia in Papua New Guinea |
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| 12.30pm | Lunch | ||
| Session 2 | |||
| 1.30pm | Dr Graeme Moad FAA Materials Science and Engineering, CSIRO Polymer design and synthesis |
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| 1.45pm | Professor Tanya Mary Monro FAA FTSE Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing, University of Adelaide Harnessing light at the nanoscale |
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| 2.00pm | Professor John Edward Norris FAA Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University The search for the first stars |
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| 2.15pm | Dr Peter Norman Dodds FAA Plant Industry, CSIRO Harnessing plant immune receptors for crop protection |
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| 2.30pm | Dr Louise Marie Ryan FAA Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics, CSIRO Statistics: the science of uncertainty |
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| 2.45pm | Professor Frances Separovic FAA School of Chemistry, University of Melbourne, and Bio 21 Breaking the barrier: NMR of membrane-active peptides |
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| 3.00pm | Professor Greg John Stuart FAA Neuroscience Department, John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University Neuronal computation |
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| 3.15pm | Professor Michael Edmund Tobar FAA FTSE School of Physics, University of Western Australia Precision electromagnetic measurements with application to terrestrial and space clocks and the quest for a physical theory of everything. |
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| 3.30pm | Professor Jane Visvader FAA Stem Cells and Cancer Division, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medicine Identification of the breast stem cell hierarchy and its implications for cancer |
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| 3.45pm | Afternoon Tea | ||
| 4.15pm | Professor Robert Charles Williamson FAA National ICT Australia and Australian National University The scientific study of machine learning |
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| 4.30pm | Dr John Church FAA FTSE Marine and Atmospheric Research, CSIRO Understanding sea level rise |
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| 4.45pm | Professor Francis Robert Carbone FAA Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne The generation of immune protection at body surfaces |
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| 5.00pm | Close Professor Suzanne Cory AC PresAA FRS President, Australian Academy of Science |
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