New Fellows Seminar
Wednesday, 7 May 2008

9.30am	Welcome Professor Kurt Lambeck President, Australian Academy of Science
9.35am	Macfarlane Burnet Medal and Lecture Professor Rick Shine School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney Using evolutionary theory to fight cane toads
Chairs: Dr Bob Frater, Professor Graham Farquhar
Session 1
10.10am	Professor David Buckingham Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge The hydrogen bond
10.25am	Professor Antony Bacic School of Botany, University of Melbourne Cell walls: The skeleton of the plant kingdom
10.40am	Professor Murray Badger Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University Turbo-charged photosynthesis: Adapting to an atmosphere with low CO2 and high oxygen
10.55am	Professor Roderick Boswell Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, Australian National University Science and innovation in the 21st century
11.10am	Morning tea
11.35am	Professor William Heath Deputy Head, Immunology Division, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research Controlling killer T cells, the assassins of the immune system
11.50am	Professor Ian Hume Emeritus Professor, School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney Comparative animal nutrition: Koalas, eucalypts, and global climate change
12.05pm	Professor Nalini Joshi Professor of Applied Mathematics, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney Hunting non-linear mathematical butterflies
12.20pm	Professor Peter Koopman Professorial Research Fellow, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland Boys, girls and children of uncertain sex: The genetics and biology of sex development
12.35pm	Professor David Lindenmayer Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, Australian National University The role and importance of large-scale experiments and natural experiments in ecological discovery
12.50pm	Professor Nicholas Martin Senior Principal Research Scientist, Queensland Institute of Medical Research Finding genes for common diseases: The GWAS revolution
1.05pm	Lunch
Session 2
2.20pm	Professor John Mattick Professor of Molecular Biology, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland The hidden layer of information in the human genome
2.35pm	Professor Hugh O’Neill Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University The composition of the Earth – are our assumptions correct?
2.50pm	Professor Brian Schmidt ARC Federation Fellow, Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University The accelerating universe
3.05pm	Professor Scott Sloan ARC Federation Fellow and Professor of Civil Engineering, Centre for Geotechnical and Materials Modelling, Civil, Surveying and Environmental Engineering, University of Newcastle New methods for geotechnical stability analysis
3.20pm	Professor Terry Speed Senior Principal Research Scientist, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research Biotechnology-driven statistics
3.35pm	Professor Patrick Tam Head, Embryology Unit, Children’s Medical Research Institute The blueprint of development: How a mouse embryo is built
3.50pm	Afternoon tea
4.15pm	Professor Geoffrey Tregear Deputy Director, Howard Florey Institute Relaxin: From ovary to brain
4.30pm	Professor Matthew Wand School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics, University of Wollongong Statistics in an age of rapid technological changes
4.45pm	Professor Ole Warnaar Senior Research Fellow, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne Integer partitions
5.00pm	Professor Howard Wiseman Centre for Quantum Dynamics, Griffith University Quantum information, measurement, and control, with application in interferometry
5.15pm	Close Professor Kurt Lambeck President, Australian Academy of Science