Australian Academy of Science | About the Academy Science at the Shine Dome, 2001

The Academy launched Science at the Shine Dome in conjunction with National Science Week and the Australian Science Festival. This three-day event, held from 2 to 4 May 2001, was open to the public.

Science at the Shine Dome included the following public activities:

New Fellows seminar
About 20 new Academy Fellows each presented 12-minute talks about their research.

Awards presentation
Admission of Fellows, the Burnet Lecture and presentations by awardees.
Program and citations (PDF file, 1185KB)

Public symposium
Entitled Cracking the code – using the code: The Human Genome Project and its applications, this symposium looked at the impact of genomic research on society.
(Program, CVs and abstracts (PDF file, 1185KB)