Professor Chris Goodnow
, Head of the Department of Immunology at JCSMR
2nd Annual John Curtin Lecture in Medical Research, entitled 'Switching the immune system off: the keys to autoimmunity, allergy, immune…
Professor Brian Schmidt
, ANU Nobel Prize Winner
The Australian National University…
Dr Sergei Grigoryev
, Milton S. Hersey Medical Center, Penn State University
The DNA in our cells is tightly packed into structures called chromosomes. The role of the physical structure of chromosomes in diseases and genetics is being explored thanks to recent advances in technology…
Dr Bradley Opdyke
, President, ACT Division of the Geological Society of Australia
People are constantly asking how today's climate compares with detailed climate records from tens of thousands of years ago to tens of millions of years ago. To the best of our knowledge, we have to…
Dr Aaron Bernstein
, Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital Boston
Biodiversity loss, namely a reduction in the variety of life on Earth, continues relatively unabated worldwide. Biodiversity loss represents far more than a loss to experience nature's beauty or to…
Professor Will Steffen
, Executive Director of the ANU Climate Change Institute
Over the past few months, the climate change challenge has taken some odd twists and turns. The COP15 meeting in Copenhagen was widely condemned in the press as a failure; the Australian Government…
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…
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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