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LECTURES CONDUCTED FOR VICTORIAN TEACHERS AND STUDENTS BY EMINENT RESEARCH SCIENTISTS
2007
Professor Andreas Strasser
Joint Head, Molecular Genetics of Cancer Division, The Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
“Why is it good for us to kill a sizeable portion of our cells every day?”
Dr Jeff Craig PhD, RD Wright Research Fellow
Joint Group Leader, Epigenetics Research Laboratory, the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute
"Epigenetics - you are what your grandmother ate"
Professor Peter Cullen, AO
Water Management, Natural Resources Strategy
“When the Rivers Run Dry – determining how much water we can take from our rivers”
Professor Don Metcalf
The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
"Fifty years of cancer research"
Dr Kathy Belov
University of Sydney
"Low MHC diversitylinked to spread of clonal tumour"
Associate Professor Paul Gooley
Bio21 Institute
"Amino acids and protein structure"
Professor Peter Coleman
Structural Biology Unit, The Walter and Eliza hall Institute of Medical Research
"Relenza – a case study in rational drug design"
Dr Spencer Williams
Bio21 Institute
"Flavonols as a preventative agent for coronary heart disease – an application of rational drug design"
Janine McCoy
Healesville Sanctuary Staff
"Providing sanctuary for healthy devils: establishment and management of a captive insurance population"
Dr Steven Smith
Program Manager DPIW Tasmania
"The plight of the Devils: Origin, cause and effect of Devil Facial Tumour Disease"
Dr Mathew Wakefield
Research Fellow, The Walter and Eliza hall Institute of Medical Research
"Mammal Genomes - a view from the pouch"
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