Professor

Nancy Millis

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Nancy Millis
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Nancy Millis has rendered conspicuous service to the cause of science with an outstanding career in microbiology and in science education and administration. She played a critical role in ensuring public confidence in the regulation of Australian research using recombinant DNA techniques, as Chairman of the Commonwealth Government Recombinant DNA Monitoring Committee from 1981. This committee was replaced in 1987 by the Genetic Manipulation Advisory Committee (GMAC) which she chaired until June 2001. It is no exaggeration to state that the Australian community's confidence that appropriate checks and balances are in place to regulate scientific research is in large part due to the contributions of Nancy Millis.

Expertise type

  • Water Quality
  • Microbiology
  • Biology
  • Recombinant DNA

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Conversation with scientist

Professor Nancy Millis, microbiologist

Nancy Millis received a Bachelor of Agricultural Science in 1945, a Master of Agricultural Science in 1948 and a Doctorate in Science (Hon) in 1993, all from the University of Melbourne. She was awarded a Boots Research Scholarship in the UK and used it to study at the University of Bristol where she received a PhD in 1952. Her doctoral research was on microbial growth and fermentation in cider that started her lifelong interest in anything that ferments.
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Professor

Robyn Williams

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Robyn Williams
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Robyn Williams is perhaps the leading science journalist in Australia. As the Executive Producer of the ABC's Science Unit, Williams has provided enormous opportunities for scientists and science commentators to express their views, extending public understanding of science, and greatly raising the level of scientific debate within the community.

Expertise type

  • History
  • Science Broadcasting
  • Science Communication
  • Science Journalism

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Professor Robyn Williams in conversation with Dr Elizabeth Finkel

Professor Robyn Williams is perhaps the leading science journalist in Australia. As Executive Producer of the ABC’s Science Unit and presenter of The Science Show, one of the longest-running programs on Australian radio, Williams has made a significant contribution to the public understanding of science
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Professor

Helene Marsh

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Helene Marsh
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Professor Helene Marsh is the world’s premier authority on the ecology and conservation biology of dugongs. She is internationally recognised for her extensive research on their life history, reproductive ecology, population dynamics, diet, distribution, abundance and movements. Marsh’s research on dugongs and other marine megafauna has been instrumental in advancing the scientific understanding and management of coastal marine mammals in the global topics. Helene’s work integrates species ecology with a broader evaluation of the links between threatened species and the welfare of human societies, particularly in developing countries and among remote Indigenous Australian communities.

Fields of research

31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
  • 3103 ECOLOGY
    • 310301 Behavioural Ecology
    • 310305 Marine and Estuarine Ecology (incl. Marine Ichthyology)
41 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
  • 4104 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT
    • 410401 Conservation and biodiversity
    • 410402 Environmental assessment and monitoring
    • 410407 Wildlife and Habitat Management

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

Expertise type

  • Biology
  • Conservation
  • Marine Biology
  • Marine Ecology

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Professor Helene Marsh, environmental scientist

Professor Helene Marsh interviewed by Dr Hugh Tyndale-Biscoe in 2000. Professor Helene Marsh was awarded a BSc Hons from the University of Queensland in 1968 and a PhD from James Cook University of North Queensland in 1973. In 1973 she began her lifelong work on marine mammals and their habitat, focusing initially on dugongs.
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Professor

Barbara Howlett

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Barbara Howlett
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Professor Barbara Howlett is a leading international fungal plant pathologist. She discovered that disease-related genes are often located in unstable parts of the fungal genome, where gene loss and mutations readily occur. This explains how disease resistance, deliberately bred into crops, can rapidly break down in the field. The practical applications of her discovery have had a major impact on the viability and profitability of the Australian canota industry. She also discovered novel biosynthetic pathways for classes of fungal toxins that are important in diseases of both plants and animals.

Expertise type

  • Biology
  • Fungal Disease
  • Pathology
  • Plant Biology

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Professor

Stephen Powles

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Stephen Powles
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Professor Stephen Powles foresaw that herbicide resistance would become a great problem in Australian and world agriculture. He pioneered resistance science, integrating molecular to agronomic initiatives in Australia, and became the international authority on herbicide resistance. He unravelled several resistance mechanisms including sequestration and metabolism. He first documented resistance glyphosate, the world’s most important herbicide. He showed that individual resistant plants simultaneously expressed several resistance mechanisms, endowing multiple resistance to most herbicides on earth. He contributes greatly to the management of herbicide resistance and GM crops and communicates approaches to industry, crop consultants, farmers and scientists around the world.

Fields of research

30 AGRICULTURAL AND VETERINARY SCIENCES
  • 3004 CROP AND PASTURE PRODUCTION

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

Expertise type

  • Biology
  • Crop Science
  • Herbicide Resistance
  • Plant Biology

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Professor

Michael Goddard

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Michael Goddard
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Goddard is a leading quantitative geneticist. He has made innovative contributions to quantitative and population genetics theory, in particular on the use of genetic markers in artificial selection programs in agriculture. A number of his methods have been adopted by livestock industries throughout the world. He developed a new multiple marker measure of linkage disequilibrium that allows the estimation of effective population size as a function of time in the past. He has developed statistical genetic methods to better understand the genetic architecture of complex traits, and has applied these to quantitative traits across a range of species.

Expertise type

  • Animal Biology
  • Animal Breeding
  • Biology
  • Genomics

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Professor

Peter Visscher

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Peter Visscher
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Visscher is a leading complex trait geneticist. He has contributed to quantitative and population genetic theory, with applications in medicine, evolutionary biology and agriculture. He has developed bioinformatics algorithms for gene mapping, and has shown how genetic markers can be used to obtain unbiased estimates of heritability. A computer package to apply his methods is in widespread use. He has developed new methods to infer effective population size from marker data and to estimate population divergence time from linkage disequilibrium. He has developed statistical methods for genetic risk prediction. Visscher is Chair of the 2011 Gordon Conference in Quantitative Genetics and Genomics.

Expertise type

  • Genetics
  • Animal Biology
  • Animal Breeding
  • Biology
  • Genomics
  • Population Genetics
  • Statistical genetics
  • Quantitative genetics

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Scientia Professor

George Paxinos

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George Paxinos
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Professor George Paxinos is currently funded by two national and two international agencies to construct atlases of the brain and spinal cord. He published 34 books and 146 articles in refereed journals and 28 book chapters. He discovered more nuclei (brain structures) and homologies in mammals and birds than anyone in nearly 100 years. All his atlases are characterised by excellence, with his first work, The Rat Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates, being the most cited Australian publication and the only neuroscience publication in the Thomson 50 most cited list. The total number of citations for all his works is 53,904.

Fields of research

32 BIOMEDICAL AND CLINICAL SCIENCES
  • 3209 NEUROSCIENCES

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

Expertise type

  • Brain Function
  • Brain Structure
  • Medical Sciences
  • Neuroscience

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Professor

David Cooper

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David Cooper
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Professor Cooper is one of the most influential clinical scientists worldwide in the field of HIV/AIDS. Shortly after the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) was discovered in 1984, he published a seminal paper in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet, which described the initial encounter of HIV with the human immune system. He has been a key investigator in proving the efficacy of highly active antiretroviral therapy and implementing its benefits. He is one of the first clinical scientists to recognize the metabolic toxicities of antiretroviral therapy and to contribute to an understanding of the pathogenesis. Moreover, Professor Cooper has been instrumental in the international fight against HIV/AIDS in the developing world.

Expertise type

  • Antiretroviral Therapy
  • HIV AIDS
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Medical Sciences

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Memoir

David Albert Cooper 1949–2018

David Cooper was an internationally renowned immunologist and HIV clinician who spearheaded Australia’s world-leading HIV response.
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Professor

David Celermajer

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David Celermajer
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David Celermajer’s seminal contribution to science has been the invention of a technique to allow the study of the arterial endothelium in humans, and subsequently the first ever demonstration that arterial damage can occur in children and young adults at risk of vascular disease, e.g. in association with passive smoking and obesity, many years before the disease causes complications such as heart attack or stroke. This identification of pre-symptomatic arterial damage has revolutionised the field of cardiovascular prevention and has led to novel treatment options (such as oral L-arginine and inhaled nitric oxide) for patients with early arterial damage.

Fields of research

32 BIOMEDICAL AND CLINICAL SCIENCES
  • 3201 CARDIOVASCULAR MEDICINE AND HAEMATOLOGY
    • 320101 Cardiology (incl. Cardiovascular Diseases)

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

Expertise type

  • Cardiovascular Disease
  • Endothelial Dysfunction
  • Medical Sciences
  • Vascular Biology
  • Pulmonary hypertension
  • Medical Devices
  • Registries
  • Adult congenital heart disease
  • Big data

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