Science at the Shine Dome 2013
DAY ONE - Wednesday 29 May 2013
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| Wednesday 29 May 2013 New Fellows Seminar |
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| 9.00am | Welcome Professor Suzanne Cory AC PresAA FRS President, Australian Academy of Science |
| 9.05am | Formal admission of new Fellows |
| Chairs: Professor Jagadish FAA FTSE, Professor Marilyn Renfree AO FAA | |
| Session One - New Fellows Presentations | |
| 9.30am | Professor Matthew Brown FAA Diamantina Institute, University of Queensland Genetics and the future of medicine |
| 9.45am | Professor David Craik FAA Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland Discovery and applications of circular proteins |
| 10.00am | Professor David Day FAA Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research), Flinders University An alternative path against oxidative stress in plants |
| 10.15am | Professor Yuri Estrin FAA Department of Materials Engineering, Monash University Bulk nanomaterials: properties and promises |
| 10.30am | Morning Tea |
| 11.00am | Professor John Evans FAA Research School of Biology, Australian National University Relating photosynthesis to leaf nitrogen |
| 11.15am | Professor Bryan Gaensler FAA ARC Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics, University of Sydney Cosmic magnetism |
| 11.30am | Dr Andrew Hassell FAA Department of Mathematics, Australian National University Quantum billiards |
| 11.45am | Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg FAA Global Change Institute, University of Queensland The Ocean in a changing world: from cellular to planetary dysfunction |
| 12.00pm | Professor Ian Jackson FAA Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University Laboratory seismology and the Earth’s internal structure |
| 12.15pm | Professor Sharad Kumar FAA Centre for Cancer Biology, SA Pathology Investigations into cell death and ubiquitination |
| 12.30pm | Lunch |
| Session Two - New Fellows Presentations | |
| 1.30pm | Professor Max (Gao Qing) Lu FAA FTSE ARC Centre of Excellence for Functional Nanomaterials, University of Queensland Engineering nanocrystalline photocatalysts |
| 1.45pm | Professor Stephen William MacMahon FAA The George Institute '“Frugal” healthcare innovation – a global research priority |
| 2.00pm | Professor Boris Martinac FAA Cardiac Research Unit, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute Mechanosensitive Ion channels in bacteria |
| 2.15pm | Professor James Paton FAA School of Molecular and Biomedical Science, University of Adelaide Preventing pneumococcal disease in the 21st century |
| 2.30pm | Professor Stephen Bruce Powles FAA FTSE School of Plant Biology, University of Western Australia Evolution in action: herbicide resistance in plants |
| 2.45pm | Dr Richard Richards FAA Plant Industry, CSIRO Meeting future food requirements: designing better crops |
| 3.00pm | Dr Louise Marie Ryan FAA CSIRO Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics Statistics – the science of uncertainty |
| 3.15pm | Professor Michael Sandiford FAA Melbourne Energy Institute, University of Melbourne Shaping the continents |
| 3.30pm | Professor Geoffrey Taylor FAA ARC Centre of Excellence For Particle Physics at the Terascale, University of Melbourne Search for the Higgs Boson |
| 3.45pm | Afternoon Tea |
| 4.15pm | Professor Andrew White FAA School of Physics, University of Queensland Quantum biology, chemistry, maths and physics |
| 4.30pm | Professor Bryan Williams FAA Monash Institute of Medical Research, University of Monash Molecules and mechanisms in the innate immune system |
| 4.45pm | Close Professor Suzanne Cory AC PresAA FRS President, Australian Academy of Science |
| 6.30pm - 9.00pm | Participating early and mid-career researchers and science and mathematics teachers are invited to a special dinner at the Shine Dome. This is in an informal opportunity to get to know one another, make connections and perhaps even meet a mentor: Some Fellows of the Academy will attend the dinner. |
'The Charter Book (pictured above) contains signatures of some of Australia's and the world's most
eminent scientists.
