Professor Simon Conway Morris, Professor of Evolutionary Palaeobiology, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
Orthodox neo-Darwinism very much emphasises the random and contingent. Re-run the tape of life, as Steven Jay Gould famously observed, and the outcomes would be utterly different. Terrestrial…
Professor Marc Mangel, University of California, Santa Cruz
One of the great challenges of this century is to answer the question: How
do we bring first class basic science to bear on important applied
problems? Although the path is not completely…
Professor Christopher C Goodnow, Director, Immunology and Genetics Division, John Curtin School of Medical Research, ANU
World Day of Immunology 2008 Public Lecture What defines us as individuals? What makes us both similar and different to other individuals, other species? These are great…
Professor Malcolm Dando, Professor, International Security, Department of Peace Sudies, University of Bradford, UK
In this lecture Professor Dando reviews international control of the biotechnology revolution, the threat of deliberate disease - from biowarfare, bioterrorism, and the possible misuse of benignly…
Sir Richard G A Feachem, Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (2002-2007)
The last five years have seen a remarkable increase in the level of financing and commitment in the war against AIDS, TB and Malaria. This period has also witnessed remarkable innovations in the business…
Vanessa Woods, Writer, researcher, freelance journalist
Taking off to mend a broken heart, Vanessa Woods left safe, suburban Canberra and headed for the remote, wild and distinctly unsafe jungles of Costa Rica. She was stung so often by killer bees she developed…
Dr Karl Kruszelnicki, Juilius Sumner Miller Fellow, University of Sydney
Dr Karl explodes our most common ‘mythconceptions’, including whether the daddy long legs is really the most venomous spider in the world and whether a frog will really sit in a pot of gently…
Professor David J Stevenson
Earth formed over 4.5 billion years ago with its initial condition greatly affected by the trauma of giant impacts. In this lecture, Professor David Stevenson discusses how this trauma affects the similarities…
Dr Jose Ramos-Horta, Prime Minister, Timor-Leste
In his first visit to Australia as Prime Minister of Timor-Leste, Dr Jose Ramos-Horta discusses the current political…
Professor Suzanne Cory, Director, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne
In this lecture, Professor Cory will give a personal perspective on her career, covering how she came to become a molecular biologist and how her fascination with chromosomes led her into cancer research…
Professor Jenny Graves, Group Leader, Comparative Genomics Research, School of Biological Sciences, ANU College of Science
In humans and other mammals, females have two X chromosomes, while males have one X and one Y. The Y chromosome is male determining because…
Dr Tim Wetherell , Science Communicator, ANU College of Science
Science and art might sound like vastly different disciplines, but Dr Tim Wetherell from ANU believes they are both…
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