Professor

Terry Hughes

FAA

Terry Hughes
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Professor Hughes has made outstanding contributions to marine biology and coral reef ecology. He studies demography and life histories and has defined new ways of modelling population dynamics. His models have been applied in both terrestrial and marine systems, have been cited extensively and now appear in many textbooks. His quantitative analysis of community dynamics includes the first detailed account of the mechanisms underlying long-term degradation of coral reefs. Recent research on large-scale processes, including gene flow in marine organisms and regional variation in the dynamics of the Great Barrier Reef, published in Science and Nature, has been of enormous significance internationally.

Fields of research

31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
  • 3103 ECOLOGY
    • 310305 Marine and Estuarine Ecology (incl. Marine Ichthyology)
  • 3104 EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
    • 310402 Biogeography and Phylogeography
41 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
  • 4104 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT
    • 410401 Conservation and biodiversity

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

Expertise type

  • Environmental Biology
  • Biodiversity
  • Biology
  • Coral Reefs
  • Marine Biology
  • Marine Ecology
  • Conservation
  • Biogeography

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Professor

Tim Hughes

FAA FAHMS

Tim Hughes
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Timothy Hughes has made key contributions towards the development and refinement of kinase inhibitor therapy for cancer, through his pioneering work in chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML). He was a leader on many of the key clinical trials that underpinned the transformation of CML from a fatal disease to a treatable chronic disease. Hughes demonstrated and championed the key role of molecular monitoring to optimise response in CML. He pioneered the concept of treatment-free remission as a pathway to cure in CML. This has heralded an exciting new era in cancer therapy where molecularly-defined targets are identified and specifically inhibited.

Fields of research

32 BIOMEDICAL AND CLINICAL SCIENCES
  • 3201 CARDIOVASCULAR MEDICINE AND HAEMATOLOGY
    • 320102 Haematology
  • 3211 ONCOLOGY AND CARCINOGENESIS
    • 321104 Cancer Therapy (excl. Chemotherapy and Radiation Therapy)

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

Expertise type

  • Biomarkers
  • Cancer Biology
  • Medical Sciences
  • Genomics
  • Cancer
  • Haematology

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Professor

Phil Hugenholtz

FAA FAHMS

Phil Hugenholtz
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Philip Hugenholtz is a microbiologist who has made landmark contributions in the field of culture-independent analysis of micro-organisms. He discovered and characterised numerous previously unrecognised major bacterial and archaea lineages each with greater evolutionary divergence than animals and plants combined. He has been instrumental in the development and application of metagenomics, the genome-based characterisation of microbiomes, which has revolutionised our understanding of microbial ecology and evolution. His contributions have raised awareness of the human microbiome and its role in health and disease.

Fields of research

31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
  • 3105 GENETICS
    • 310509 Genomics
  • 3107 MICROBIOLOGY

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

Expertise type

  • Microbiology
  • Microbial Diversity
  • Taxonomy
  • Metagenomics
  • Microbial Ecology
  • Microbial Evolution
  • Microbiome
  • Biology

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Emeritus Professor

Mark Howden

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Mark Howden
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Professor Howden is a globally recognised scientist, whose work addresses comprehensively both climate change issues and their translation into real-world impact. His research covers the spectrum of the underlying science of climate change and variability, the impact of these and adaptation responses, emission inventory methods and sustainable emission-reduction options as well as methods and ethics of research translation. This breadth of expertise allows him to provide integrative science and solutions that have had broad policy and practice impact. Professor Howden’s pre-eminence in the field has resulted in an unsurpassed record of being selected for 28 significant IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) roles since 1991.

Fields of research

37 EARTH SCIENCES 370202 Climatology (excl. Climate Change Processes) 41 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES 83 ANIMAL PRODUCTION AND ANIMAL PRIMARY PRODUCTS
  • 8398 Environmentally Sustainable Animal Production

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

Expertise type

  • Agricultural Science
  • Biology
  • Climate Adaptation
  • Climate Variability
  • Applied Ecology
  • Climate Change

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Professor

Adrian Horridge

FAA FRS

Adrian Horridge
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Professor Adrian Horridge is distinguished for the combination of electron microscopy, neuro-anatomy and electrophysiological analyses of coordination in invertebrates. Early examples were the analysis of medusae, the first electrophysiological demonstration of pitch discrimination in an insect, the discovery of a preparation for the study of learning by the ventral cord of a headless insect and the discovery that chaetognatha feed by vibration receptors. Recently work on the compound eye led to the discovery of an optokinetic response to the sun's movement, several new types of insect retina and a study of the accuray of synaptic connections in the projection of the fly's eye. This varied experience, and its philosophical basis, is summarised in a recent book "Interneurons". Also a book with T. H. Bullock is the standard reference work on invertebrate nervous systems.

Expertise type

  • Invertebrate Vision
  • Biology
  • Electrophysiology
  • Neuroscience
  • Vision Science
  • Bee vision

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Conversation with scientist

Professor Adrian Horridge, neurobiologist

Professor Adrian Horridge interviewed by Professor Bob Crompton in 2002. Professor Adrian Horridge’s research interests include the role of the nervous system in behaviour. His particular specialty was in understanding natural visual processing as an engineering problem. He was the Foundation Director of the Centre for Visual Studies at the Australian National University. In addition to his biological research he has published many titles on Indonesian traditional boats.
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Memoir

George Adrian Horridge 1927–2024

Adrian Horridge is famous for his pioneering studies of invertebrate vision. At the Australian National University, he established a thriving department of neurobiology, which became one of the world’s leading entities in this field.
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Professor

Eddie Holmes

FAA FRS

Eddie Holmes
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Professor Edward Holmes is a world-leading authority on viral evolution whose work has transformed his field. He has revealed the fundamental processes of microbial evolution, determined the origin and evolution of major human pathogens including influenza, dengue and the AIDS virus, and shown how genetic and epidemiological data can be combined to radically improve our understanding of disease evolution. Edward’s work has enabled more accurate assessments of what types of viruses, and from which animal species, are most likely to emerge in human populations, and how they will evolve in response to our attempts to control them.

Expertise type

  • Evolutionary Epidemiology
  • Medical Sciences
  • Molecular Genetics
  • Virology

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Professor

David Hirst

FAA

David Hirst
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David Hirst is one of the most original and productive scientists working in the fields of the innervation of smooth muscle and the physiological mechanisms that control its contractility. He has made major contributions to understanding the mechanisms underlying transmission at the junctions formed by autonomic nerves with smooth muscle and cardiac muscle. The unifying concept from Hirst's research is that receptors activated by neurally released transmitters act differently on target tissue compared with receptors activated by the same substances but not located subsynaptically. This has changed the traditional concept that autonomic nerves supply transmitter non-specifically to smooth muscle membrane.

Expertise type

  • Medical Sciences
  • Nervous System
  • Pharmacology
  • Physiology

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Professor

Doug Hilton

AO FAA FTSE FAHMS

Doug Hilton
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Dr Hilton has made several seminal discoveries toward understanding molecular genetic regulation of blood cell formation. He purified the cytokine Leukaemia Inhibitory Factor (LIF) showing it to suppress the differentiation of embryonic stem cells, resulting in LIF's use in the production of genetically modified mice. He also discovered a novel family of proteins, the suppressors of cytokine signalling, and in doing so, spawned an entirely new field of research concerned with the attenuation of signal transduction. Dr Hilton is one of the scientists of his generation, a wonderful ambassador for the Australian research community and would make a first-class academician.

Expertise type

  • Autoimmune Disease
  • Blood Cells
  • Genomics
  • Medical Sciences

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Dr

TJ Higgins

AO FAA FTSE

TJ Higgins
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Dr Higgins’ research provides an outstanding example of distinguished contributions to basic science leading to a range of applications in agriculture which are of national and global significance. He is widely recognized internationally for his contributions to our understanding of the biology and molecular genetics of the storage proteins formed in developing seeds and the regulation of expression of their coding genes. These studies, combined with his research on transgene technology, provided the basis for generating transgenic crops and pastures engineered to provide critical novel features. These include plants with either improved nutritional quality or resistance to viruses or insects.

Fields of research

10 TECHNOLOGY 3001 AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY
  • 300105 Genetically Modified Field Crops and Pasture
31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
  • 3108 PLANT BIOLOGY
    • 310806 Plant Physiology

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

Expertise type

  • Biology
  • Biotechnology
  • Plant Biology
  • Seed Biology

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Related

Conversation with scientist

Dr TJ Higgins in conversation with Professor Hans-Albert Bachor

Dr TJ Higgins interviewed by Professor Hans Bachor in 2021. Dr TJ Higgins is a plant biotechnologist with background training in agricultural science. He strongly advocates for effective science communication and regularly discusses gene technology in public forums.
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Professor

Chris Heyde

AM FAA FASSA

Chris Heyde
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Dr C. C. Heyde is an internationally recognised authority on the classical theory of probability. His principal contributions are concerned with the problems of convergence to normality, laws of large numbers and martingale theory. He has also worked on renewal theory, queueing theory and stochastic models for chemical processes. In the last ten years he has published a large body of work which shows great originality and technical power.

Expertise type

  • Probability
  • Queueing Theory
  • Mathematics
  • Martingale theory
  • Probability Theory
  • Stochastic Modelling

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Related

Memoir

Christopher Charles Heyde 1939–2008

Chris made an outstanding contribution to probability theory and its applications. He received considerable recognition, including Fellowship of the Australian Academy of Science and of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, as well as Membership of the Order of Australia.
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