Staff and Presenters

LECTURES CONDUCTED FOR VICTORIAN TEACHERS AND STUDENTS BY EMINENT RESEARCH SCIENTISTS

2004

Professor Kevin Marsh
Director, Kenyan Medical Research Institute/The Wellcome Trust Programme, Kilifi, Kenya and the University of Oxford, UK
“Malaria research in the field – from sick children to genomics”

Dr Daniel Carucci
Captain, US Navy Medical Corps and Director of Naval Medical Research Centre Malaria Program, Silver Spring, USA
The Malaria parasite genome and the promise of new therapies

Dr Lawrence Bannister
King’s College London, UK
A microscopic look at the malaria parasite

Dr. Brendan Crabb
Laboratory Head, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Pathogens – their nature and diversity.

Dr Bill Heath, Immunology Division
The Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
The Immune Response – an examination of the nature and response by the human immune system to invading pathogens

Professor Dick Strugnell
The Department of Microbiology & Immunology, The University of Melbourne
Vaccines – their nature and action

Professor Trevor Kilpatrick
Howard Florey Institute
Convicts, rodents and Van Diemen’s land: keys to dissecting the cause of MS

Dr. Cynthia Whitchurch
Department of Microbiology, Monash University
Bacterial Signalling

Drew Berry
The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
The making of DNAi

Dr. Elizabeth Dennis
CSIRO Plant Industry
The New Plant Biology

Dr. Geoffery McFadden
Botany Department, the University of Melbourne
What can genes tell us about evolution?

 

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