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SECTIONAL COMMITTEES

Committees comprised of Fellows established to advise Council regarding the qualifications of candidates for election to the Academy. The Sectional Committees cover broad subject areas, currently as follows:

Sectional Committee 1 Mathematical Sciences Professor P J Forrester10 (Chair) Professor M G Eastwood12 Professor H P Possingham10 Professor J H Rubinstein11 Professor I H Sloan11 Professor A H Welsh12 Sectional Committee 3 Chemistry including Biological Chemistry Professor C J Easton10 (Chair) Professor P M Colman10 Professor P A Lay11 Professor D R MacFarlane11 Professor M von Itzstein9 Professor R O Watts12 Sectional Committee 5 Applied Physical and Engineering Sciences Professor R W Bilger10 (Chair) Professor R G Gilbert11 Professor M Gu11 Professor S W Sloan12 Professor M V Srinivasan10 Professor G G Wallace12 Sectional Committee 7 Animal Sciences Professor S C Gandevia10 (Chair) Professor D I Cook9 Professor R P Harvey11 Professor P G Holt11 Professor M B Renfree12 Professor E M Wintour-Coghlan10 Sectional Committee 9 Applied Biology and Clinical Sciences Professor F A O Mendelsohn10 (Chair) Professor B K Armstrong12 Professor S F Berkovic12 Professor D S Celermajer11 Professor R M Hall10 Professor N G Martin11 Sectional Committee 11 Information and Communications Sciences Professor R Kotagiri9 (Chair) Professor L Faraone10 Professor N H Fletcher11 Professor G C Goodwin10 Professor D J Hill12 Professor C Jagadish11 9 To retire after 2009 Sectional Committee meeting 10 To retire after 2010 Sectional Committee meeting 11 To retire after 2011 Sectional Committee meeting 12 To retire after 2012 Sectional Committee meeting

Sectional Committee 2 Physics and Astronomy Professor S T Hyde10 (Chair) Professor B J Boyle11 Professor D J Hinde11 Professor A G Klein9 Professor D B Melrose12 Professor M Y Simmons10 Sectional Committee 4 Earth and Planetary Sciences Professor J S Frederiksen10 (Chair) Professor B W Chappell11 Professor J J Finnigan12 Professor M T McCulloch9 Professor S R Rintoul11 Professor M R Walter12 Sectional Committee 6 Microbial and Plant Sciences Professor G I McFadden9 (Chair) Professor I W Dawes11 Dr R E Munns11 Professor P R Reeves10 Professor F A Smith9 Professor S von Caemmerer10 Sectional Committee 8 Molecular and Cell Biology Professor D L Vaux10 (Chair) Professor A R Dunn11 Professor J B Egan9 Professor D E James11 Professor E R Simpson9 Professor G R Sutherland10 Sectional Committee 10 Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Professor R J Hobbs9 (Chair) Professor M A Burgman10 Professor A Cockburn10 Professor A A Hoffmann9 Professor S J Simpson11 Professor C H Tyndale-Biscoe11