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Richard Richards

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Richard Richards
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Richard Richards is the world leader in the use of physiological traits in the breeding of crop plants. The approach developed by him is now being used widely internationally. It integrates physiological understanding of what determines grain yield in drought-prone environments with the understanding of the molecular and genetic bases of influential physiological traits. It has therefore enabled a much more effective, targeted use to be made of bioinformatics in breeding crops for such environments, and has resulted in the release of several radically new varieties of wheat.

Expertise type

  • Wheat Breeding
  • Biology
  • Agronomy
  • Plant Biology

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Professor

Fiona Stanley

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Fiona Stanley
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Professor Stanley is a world leader in perinatal epidemiology. She pioneered linking obstetric and child health records to measure disease burden and study causal pathways. Her demonstration of protection against neural tube defects by dietary folate in pregnancy depended on them. She has used them to study the causes of cerebral palsies and showed, contrary to opinions of the day, that pathways via birth asphyxia were rare and that most cerebral palsy has its origin early in gestation. Her studies of pre-term birth and low birth weight have shown important inter-generational effects and led to new ways of thinking about and analysing cause in epidemiology.

Expertise type

  • Child Health
  • Epidemiology
  • Medical Sciences
  • Spina Bifida

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Professor Fiona Stanley, epidemiologist

Fiona Stanley, born in Sydney in 1946, earned her medical degree from the University of Western Australia and later specialized in epidemiology and public health through advanced studies in London. She became a leading figure in child health research, serving as director of the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research and professor of paediatrics at UWA from 1990 onward. Interviewed by Dr Norman Swan in 2000.
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Professor

Jenefer Blackwell

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Jenefer Blackwell
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Professor Jenefer Blackwell is distinguished for her scientific achievements in the study of host susceptibility and resistance to infectious diseases. For more than three decades she has undertaken research on neglected tropical diseases, including leishmaniasis, a disease caused by protozoan parasites which infects about 2 million people and kills tens of thousands every year. Through genome-wide analysis, Jenefer discovered that genetic risk for visceral leishmaniasis lies at the heart of eliciting T cell immunity, facilitating innovate genome-based approaches to develop vaccines effective in at-risk individuals.

Fields of research

32 BIOMEDICAL AND CLINICAL SCIENCES
  • 3202 CLINICAL SCIENCES
    • 320211 Infectious Diseases
    • 320213 Medical Genetics (excl. Cancer Genetics)
  • 3204 IMMUNOLOGY
    • 320404 Cellular Immunology
    • 320406 Immunogenetics (incl. Genetic Immunology)

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

Expertise type

  • Genetic Epidemiology
  • Medical Sciences
  • Molecular Parasitology
  • Tropical Medicine

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Professor

Christine Beveridge

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Christine Beveridge
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Professor Christine Beveridge is known for her work on the hormonal control of plant development including the discovery of strigolactones as a new plant hormone. Her research has advanced understanding of how plant hormones and sugar signalling control shoot branching which underpins the yield, productivity and ornamental value of crops, trees and shrubs. Her recent work combines biological discovery with advanced mathematics to model and predict phenotypic outcomes of genetics, physiology and environment. With such broad collaborations, Christine hopes to help improve breeding pipelines and to enhance rates of genetic gain in crop improvement

Fields of research

31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
  • 3108 PLANT BIOLOGY

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

Expertise type

  • Biology
  • Plant Biology
  • Plant Hormone Regulation

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Dr

Peter Dodds

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Peter Dodds
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Dr Peter Dodds has made internationally acclaimed contributions to understanding the molecular basis of fungal rust resistance in plants. Using the genetically defined flax-flax rust system, he isolated the first rust avirulence protein and showed it is secreted into the host plant cell during infection. Dodds showed that this pathogen protein triggers immunity by direct protein-protein interaction with a host resistance protein. He resolved the crystal structure of the avirulence protein and identified polymorphic surface residues as the keys for specific recognition. This work provided the first evidence for a postulate, based on the long standing gene-for-gene hypothesis that direct and specific protein interactions occurred between flax resistance and flax rust avirulence proteins. Dodds' innovative discoveries provide a foundation for the rational design of synthetic rust resistance genes to protect the world's most important food crops from rust diseases.

Expertise type

  • Biology
  • Genomics
  • Plant Biology
  • Rust

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Professor

Graham Farquhar

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Graham Farquhar
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Professor Farquhar has made outstanding theoretical and experimental advances in research in carbon and water relations of plants. Using optimisation theory, he has contributed to a new description of the regulation of CO2 uptake in relation to water loss. He has developed models of photosynthetic metabolism that predict rate of CO2 uptake as a function of physical environment. He has shown how carbon-isotope composition of plant tissue depends on biochemical and diffusional limitations to CO2 uptake, and variation in composition amongst plants in a given environment reflects variation in water-use efficiency. This has led to a promising technique for selecting crop-plant varieties for water-limited environments.

Expertise type

  • Biology
  • Climate Change
  • Plant Biology
  • Plant Physiology

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Professor

Trevor Hambley

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Trevor Hambley
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Trevor has established an outstanding career in bioinorganic chemistry, crystallography and molecular mechanics research. His crystallographic research has been coupled with molecular mechanics and other calculations to bring about new insights into the understanding of how metal-ligand bond lengths and ligand conformations modulate chemical and physical properties of coordination complexes. Multidisciplinary research on metal anti-cancer drugs has traversed chemical, biochemical and cell biological studies in order to both design new drugs with greater efficacy and understand the activities of existing drugs. His pioneering bioinorganic chemistry research has led to his election as President of the Society for Biological Inorganic Chemistry.

Fields of research

32 BIOMEDICAL AND CLINICAL SCIENCES
  • 3211 ONCOLOGY AND CARCINOGENESIS
    • 321105 Chemotherapy
34 CHEMICAL SCIENCES
  • 3402 INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
    • 340201 Bioinorganic Chemistry
  • 3404 MEDICINAL AND BIOMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY
    • 340499 Medicinal and Biomolecular Chemistry not elsewhere classified

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

Expertise type

  • Chemistry
  • Drug Design
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Medicinal Chemistry

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Professor

Curt Wentrup

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Curt Wentrup
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Professor Wentrup is one of the leading experts worldwide in the field of flash vacuum thermolysis (FVT). He has contributed very substantially to the knowledge of carbene and nitrene chemistry and is without doubt Australia's leading expert in this field. He has developed the coupling of FVT with matrix isolation spectroscopy of reactive intermediates and used this technique to characterize a wide variety of new intermediates (first direct observation of thermally produced nitrenes, of dehydrodiazepines, of dinitrogen sulfide, and of the HCN dimer N-cyanomethanimine; first IR-spectroscopic observation of ketene-pyridine ylides; discovered the oxoketene-oxoketene and analogous rearrangements; first syntheses of iminopropadienones RN=C=C=C=O).

Fields of research

34 CHEMICAL SCIENCES
  • 3405 ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
    • 340501 Free Radical Chemistry
    • 340505 Physical Organic Chemistry
  • 3406 PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY (INCL. STRUCTURAL)
    • 340602 Chemical Thermodynamics and Energetics

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

Expertise type

  • Chemistry
  • Flash Vacuum Pyrolysis
  • Organic Chemistry
  • Reactive Intermediates
  • History of Science

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Professor

James Paton

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James Paton
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James Paton has made a major scientific contribution to the field of pathogenesis and prevention of bacterial infectious diseases, with particular reference to the human pathogens Streptococcus pneumoniae and Shiga toxigenic Escherichia Coli. His work has established the important role of certain pneumococcal virulence proteins in pathogenesis, and demonstrated their potential as vaccine antigens for prevention of pneumococcal disease, regardless of capsular serotype. Other achievements include characterisation of genes encoding pneumococcal capsule biosynthesis, development of toxin-binding probiotics for prevention of enteric infections, and characterisation of a novel family of bacterial AB5 cytotoxins.

Fields of research

31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
  • 3105 GENETICS

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

Expertise type

  • Bacterial Pathogens
  • Medical Sciences
  • Microbiology
  • Vaccines

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Professor

Peter Bartlett

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Peter Bartlett
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Professor Peter Bartlett is a pioneer in statistical learning theory, which is at the interface of computer science and statistics, and is focused on the science behind large, complex statistical decision problems. He has created the theoretical foundations for many key advances in statistical machine learning. Peter’s contributions include analysing large margin classifiers (a successful family of computationally efficient methods for classifying patterns), developing and analysing statistical learning methods based on convex optimisation, and developing new techniques for analysing the performance of prediction methods.

Expertise type

  • Computational Mathematics
  • Mathematics
  • Statistics

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