Professor

Jim Pittard

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Jim Pittard
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The work of Professor James (Jim) Pittard is characterised by the insight he has shown in obtaining significant results in the field of biochemical genetics by his choice of problems to give meaningful results, his ingenuity, and the thoroughness with which he applies his critical abilities, both to his own results and those of others. Pittard's influence on biochemcial genetics has been important in the Australian scene.

Expertise type

  • Genomics
  • Bacteria
  • Biology
  • Microbiology

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Professor Jim Pittard, microbial geneticist

Professor Jim Pittard interviewed by Professor Michael Hynes in 2011. Alfred James (Jim) Pittard was born in Ballarat in 1932. He completed secondary school at the Ballarat Church of England Grammar School in 1949.
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Professor

Andy Pitman

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Andy Pitman
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Andrew Pitman is an international authority on the role of land surface processes in the climate system including their influence on regional rainfall and temperature extremes. His findings have transformed our appreciation of land cover from a passive boundary condition to a dynamic and influential component of the climate system, including climate extremes. As a direct consequence of Pitman’s work, there is now an accepted role of land cover change in regional climate projections, and a new field devoted to utilising land cover to mitigate the worst impacts of regional climate extremes.

Fields of research

37 EARTH SCIENCES
  • 3701 ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES
370201 Climate Change Processes

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Expertise type

  • Climate
  • Climate Science
  • Global Ecology
  • Climate Change
  • Climate Variability
  • Land Use
  • Earth Sciences

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Professor

Michael Pitman

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Michael Pitman
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Professor Pitman is distinguished for his research on ion transport in plants, particularly relating the activity of the plant as a whole to mechanisms at the cellular and membrane levels. He was first to develop techniques to estimate ion fluxes in higher plant tissues. His work has led to explanations of the discrimination between sodium and potassium, to models for ion transport through the root to the shoot and to increased understanding of plants under salt or water stress. He played a leading role in introducing the Academy's "Web of Life" biology course to Australian schools.

Expertise type

  • Biology
  • Plant Biology

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Dr

Jack Piddington

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Jack Piddington
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Distinguished for his work in radiophysics, including ionospheric studies, radio-astronomy of the sun, moon, and galaxy, the theory of phenomena occurring in plasma in magnetic fields, radio propagation in the troposphere, and war-time radio-engineering developments of considerable importance to the campaign in the Pacific. Measured lunar radio emission and deduced temperature and surface layer structure of that body. Designed first accurate range­finding equipment for coast defence gunnery, and simple light-weight air-warning equipment installed rapidly with great effect at Darwin and elsewhere, and subsequently used successfully by U.S. and Australian forces in "island-hopping" campaigns. His recent theoretical work demonstrates invalidity of many theories (e.g. of Hoyle, Giovanelli) which depend upon time variation of magnetic fields in conducting plasma.

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Professor

Jack Pettigrew

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Jack Pettigrew
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Pettigrew has made major contributions to our knowledge of the comparative physiology of binocular vision, with more recent extensions to the fields of binaural hearing and somatic sensation. He was the first person to clarify the neurobiological basis of stereopsis when he described neurons in the visual cortex sensitive to binocular disparity and he has continued to influence this field with seminal papers on both the ontogenetic development and evolution of binocular neurons. Of note in the former area of visual development are his recent studies indicating a role for non-visual pathways in the phenomenon of developmental plasticity during the postnatal "critical period". Important in the latter area is his discovery that owls have independently evolved a system of binocular neurons like those found in mammals.

Expertise type

  • Biology
  • Neural Development
  • Physiology
  • Vertebrate Vision

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Dr

Jim Peacock

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Jim Peacock
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Dr James (Jim) Peacock has made significant contributions to the understanding pf the molecular architecture of chromosomes—the establishment of iso-chromatic labelling indicating subunit structures; reunion following breakage is limited by the 3' - 5' reunion following polynucleotide polarities of the subunits, which polarities are opposed, but not uniform along the chromosome. He has demonstrated the separation in time of DNA replication and crossing over by breakage-reunion, extending the classical work of Creighton and McClintock. Peacock has established the basis of meiotic drive (segregation distortion) in terms of sperm morphogenesis in Drosophila and has shown that highly repeated DNA sequences occur in the centromeric regions of chromosomes, are chromosome-specific, and highly conserved. These sequences have a functional role, perhaps in relation to homologous chromosome recognition.

Expertise type

  • Genetically Modified Organisms
  • Agricultural Science
  • Biotechnology
  • Biology
  • Genomics
  • Genetic Control
  • Plant Biology

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Dr Jim Peacock, plant scientist

William James (Jim) Peacock was born in Leura, New South Wales, in 1937. He was educated at the University of Sydney where he received a BSc (Hons) in 1958.
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Professor

Rich Payne

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Rich Payne
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Richard Payne is an international leader in the fields of organic chemistry and chemical biology. He is recognized for pioneering a number of technologies for accessing precisely modified peptides and proteins for applications in biology and medicine. His lab is also recognized for the development of modified peptide drug leads for a range of diseases, such as anti-inflammatories, anti-thrombotics and anti-infectives (including for COVID-19). The impact of his research has led to the award of more than 20 prestigious prizes, including the Malcolm McIntosh Prime Minister’s Prize and the AJ Birch and HG Smith Medals from the Royal Australian Chemical Institute.

Fields of research

32 BIOMEDICAL AND CLINICAL SCIENCES
  • 3205 MEDICAL BIOCHEMISTRY AND METABOLOMICS
    • 320506 Medical Biochemistry: Proteins and Peptides (incl. Medical Proteomics)
34 CHEMICAL SCIENCES
  • 3404 MEDICINAL AND BIOMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY
    • 340401 Biologically Active Molecules
    • 340406 Molecular Medicine
  • 3405 ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
    • 340503 Organic Chemical Synthesis

For full list of research codes, please visit the ARC Website .

Expertise type

  • Chemical Synthesis
  • Immunology
  • Chemistry
  • Biological Chemistry
  • Carbohydrates
  • Biochemistry
  • Drug Discovery
  • Inflammation
  • Cardiovascular Disease
  • Drug Design
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Medicinal Chemistry
  • Proteins
  • Peptide Chemisty
  • Natural Products
  • Peptides
  • Vaccines
  • Organic Chemistry
  • Protein Structure-Function Relationships

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Professor

Rob Parton

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Rob Parton
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Parton is internationally renowned for his pioneering work on the plasma membrane organisation of mammalian cells and one of the most highly-cited cell biologists in Australia. He has developed, and applied, new ultrastructural methods to dissect the role of lipids and proteins in the organisation, function, and dynamics of membrane microdomains. His fundamental scientific discoveries, including the identification and functional characterisation of novel proteins involved in plasma membrane organisation, have far-reaching importance for diverse areas of biomedical research, ranging from the molecular mechanisms of lipid regulation and membrane morphogenesis, to liver regeneration, obesity, and cancer.

Expertise type

  • Biology
  • Cell Biology
  • Cell Membranes
  • Membrane Proteins

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Professor

Barry Osmond

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Barry Osmond
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Dr. Osmond's research in Crassulacean acid metabolism and C4 photosynthesis is widely recognized as providing a major component of present day knowledge of these processes and has raised important ecological implications related to adaptation and acclimation. His work in photorespiration, together with collaborators, goes further than any other studies to tie together biochemistry, physiology and plant performance to environmental conditions. In addition he has made important contributions to several specific aspects of ion absorption and metabolism, to the physiology of salt tolerant plants, and to the photosynthetic physiol.ogy of marine plants. Apart from bis substantial personal contributions, a feature of his work is the ability to integrate his own research and that of his colleagues into broad advances in basic plant physiology.

Expertise type

  • Biology
  • Photosynthesis
  • Physiology
  • Plant Biology

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Professor

Geoff Opat

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Geoff Opat
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Geoffrey Opat is distinguished for his skill in developing clever experimental techniques for obtaining answers to important questions in physics. His first widely known exhibition of this skill was the design of a practical realisation of Bernstein's concept for demonstrating the change in sign associated with the rotation of a spinor through 360°. More recently he has attracted international attention through his experimental investigation of the patch effect at low temperatures, of importance in the design of the proposed experiment on detection of the gravitational acceleration of the antiprotons. He also gained widespread recognition through his participation in the observation of Aharanov­Casher effect.

Expertise type

  • Physics
  • Quantum Physics
  • Astrophysics
  • Gravitational Physics

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Geoff Opat

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