Professor

Michael Archer

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Michael Archer
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Professor Michael Archer has made important contributions to the anatomy, taxonomy and evolutionary history of Australian marsupials and monotremes. At the enormously rich Riversleigh World Heritage Site, which he developed, he has for 25 years led a large team that has transformed knowledge of mid to late Tertiary Australian vertebrates. From Murgon he described the first early Tertiary Australian mammals and from Lightning Ridge Australia's first Cretaceous mammals. Through his boundless enthusiasm for research, and his knowledge of deep-time transformations in faunal assemblages, he has been a strong advocate of innovative land-use strategies to enhance the survival of Australia's living biota.

Fields of research

37 EARTH SCIENCES
  • 3705 GEOLOGY
    • 370506 Palaeontology (incl. Palynology)
  • 3799 OTHER EARTH SCIENCES

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

Expertise type

  • Biology
  • Evolution
  • Marsupials
  • Palaeontology

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Emeritus Professor

Andrew Cockburn

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Andrew Cockburn
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Professor Cockburn has an international reputation for his contributions to behavioural ecology and evolutionary theory. He uses Australian species to examine important theoretical questions on how selection operates and how individuals maximise their fitness. He showed the importance of post-fire plant succession for survival of the heath mouse. He used Antechinus to provide unique tests of sex allocation, litter size and sex-biased dispersal. Using genetic probes, he has demonstrated the role of helpers, paternity, cuckoldry, mate selection and life time strategies of both sexes in cooperatively breeding choughs and fairy wrens. His work provides a novel integration of ecology and evolutionary theory.

Expertise type

  • Behavioural Ecology
  • Biology
  • Ecology
  • Evolution

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Emeritus Professor

Lesley Rogers

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Lesley Rogers
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Professor Rogers has made outstanding contributions to understanding brain development and behaviour. She discovered lateralisation in the chick forebrain, when lateralisation was still believed to be a unique feature of the human brain. Later it became known that hemispheric specialisation is ubiquitous in the animal kingdom. Rogers also discovered that lateralisation of visual projections and visual behaviour is caused by exposure of the chick embryo to light just before hatching. The developing chick brain proved to be an excellent model for investigating the influence of hormonal and experiential factors on neural and behavioural development, and memory formation.

Fields of research

31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
  • 3104 EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
    • 310499 Evolutionary Biology not elsewhere classified
    • 60304 Ethology and Sociobiology
  • 3199 OTHER BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
52 PSYCHOLOGY
  • 5299 Other psychology

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

Expertise type

  • Animal Biology
  • Biology
  • Brain Development and Behaviour
  • Neuroscience

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Conversation with scientist

Professor Lesley Rogers, neurobiologist

Professor Lesley Rogers interviewed by Professor John Bradshaw in 2001. Lesley Rogers was born in Brisbane in 1943. She received a BSc (Hons) from Adelaide University in 1964, where she investigated the physiology of long-necked tortoises.
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Professor

Marilyn Renfree

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Marilyn Renfree
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Professor Renfree has made a sustained and major contribution to reproductive physiology and sexual development of marsupials during the past 25 years and she is now the leader of the strongest group in this field anywhere in the world. She was the first to demonstrate the nutritional and endocrine functions of the marsupial placenta, the afferent arc from the mammary gland involved in the maintenance of the embryonic diapause and the occurrence of diapause in the honey possum. More recently she has led the work on understanding the control of parturition in marsupials and on sex determination and sexual differentiation. Not only has her work greatly enlarged understanding of marsupials but it has contributed to general understanding of these processes in other mammals.

Expertise type

  • Marsupials
  • Animal Biology
  • Biology
  • Genomics
  • Mammalian Reproduction
  • Sexual differentiation
  • Genomic imprinting
  • Placental physiology

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Conversation with scientist

Professor Marilyn Renfree, physiologist

Professor Marilyn Renfree interviewed by Dr Hugh Tyndale-Biscoe in 2000. Marilyn Renfree was born in 1947 in Brisbane, Queensland. She received a BSc in 1968 a PhD in 1972 and a DSc in 1988 all from the Australian National University. In 1972-73 Renfree was a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Zoology at the University of Tennessee, where she investigated human uterine proteins and the factors affecting them.
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Professor

James Angus

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James Angus
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Professor James Angus was the first to show the in vivo role of endothelium-dependent relaxing factor on arterial reactivity and to develop a mass culture system for studying its release in vitro. He has provided new knowledge about altered arterial responsiveness in hypertension, heart failure and coronary disease. In the field of symathetic neuromuscular transmission in small arteries, he showed that noradrenaline and ATP released from nerve endings had different roles and definitively refuted the gamma-receptor hypothosis. He has provided new in vivo on the role of novel "N" type calcium channels in circulatory control. He was the first to show that histamine is the final mediator of vagally induced gastric acid secretion.

Expertise type

  • Bioassay
  • Drug Mechanisms
  • Medical Sciences
  • Pharmacology

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Professor

Ian Thornton

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Ian Thornton
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Ian Thornton is an eminent entomologist and biogeographer. He is an international authority on the Psocoptera, a worldwide family of small winged or wingless insects that feed on vegetable fibre, including paper. He has used his deep knowledge of these ubiquitous insects to develop and test hypotheses about insect distribution on the oceanic islands of the Pacific and surrounding lands. For the past decade he has led the most intensive study yet undertaken on the recolonisation of the islands of Krakatau and Anak Krakatau, the results of which are challenging prevailing ideas of island biogeography.

Expertise type

  • Ecosystems
  • Ecology
  • Biology
  • Biogeography

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Memoir

Ian Walter Boothroyd Thornton 1926-2002

Ian Thornton was a fine zoologist, an accomplished academic acknowledged internationally as an authority in his field, and an admired leader and mentor to his colleagues and to generations of students. He came to Australia in early 1968 as Foundation Professor of Zoology at La Trobe University, Melbourne, and remained associated with that department, latterly as Emeritus Professor, for the rest of his life.
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Professor

Antony Underwood

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Antony Underwood
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Professor Underwood is a world authority on the experimental ecology of coastal marine habitats. His work is widely cited as original and rigorous. Much of it has been adopted as the inspiration for novel initiatives by other ecologists, both within and outside marine ecology. He has published extensively on the design of ecological experiments, on sampling designs to detect environmental disturbances, and on the relationship between the philosophy and logic of quantitative ecology on the one hand and the detection and management of environmental problems on the other. He has supervised 50 postgraduate students, has published more than 100 papers, and has been a major initiator of increased rigour in Australian and international ecology.

Expertise type

  • Biology
  • Coastal Habitats
  • Marine Ecology
  • Shallow Coastal Shores

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Professor

Jeremy Pickett-Heaps

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Jeremy Pickett-Heaps
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Pickett-Heaps is distinguished for his many discoveries in the field of cell biology. He was first to demonstrate the passage of wall material from the Golgi apparatus to the cell wall. He discovered the preprophase band of microtubules and pointed out its significance as a predictor of the site of division in higher plant cells. He originated the seminal concept of the microtubule organizing centre, thus founding a major field of research. His wide-ranging ultrastructural work led him to a novel and now accepted view of evolutionary relationships in the algae and the origin of higher plants. He has made many important contributions to knowledge of microtubule formation, dynamics and interactions with chromosomes in the mitotic spindle during cell division, from which new hypotheses on the mechanism of mitosis have been generated. His work has been conducted in the UK, USA and Australia.

Expertise type

  • Biology
  • Botany
  • Green Algae
  • Plant Cell Biology

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Related

Memoir

Jeremy David Pickett-Heaps 1940–2021

Jeremy Pickett-Heaps was a biologist whose acute observational powers were fed by a deep fascination for how cells work; he had an affinity for the myriad diversity of algae and other protists in general and for what they could teach us about all cells.
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Professor

Adrienne Clarke

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Adrienne Clarke
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Professor Clarke's major contribution is to understanding the mechanism of cell-cell recognition in plants. She investigated the basis of cell-cell recognition in two systems, fertilization and fungal disease. As part of the strategy to understand these systems, she established structures of the complex surface carbohydrates of the cells in contact during recognition. A major contribution is the molecular cloning of a cDNA encoding a protein from the female sexual tissues which is probably the product of the gene controlling self-fertilization. This forms the foundation for understanding the genetic basis of self- and non-self recognition in plants.

Expertise type

  • Biology
  • Cell Wall
  • Plant Biology
  • Plant Reproduction

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Professor

Peter Colman

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Peter Colman
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Peter Colman has made outstanding contributions to our knowledge of the three-dimensional structure of antibodies and of virus antigens. His elucidation of the three-dimensional structure of the influenza virus enzyme and antigen, neuraminidase has had a major impact on our understanding of the epidemiology of influenza and has received world-wide recognition. His contribution has been recognized by the inaugural award by the Academy of the Frederick White Prize (1984), a CSIRO Medal for Research Achievement (1985) and the Royal Society of Victoria medal (1986). His study demonstrated that the active site of the enzyme is invariant in all known strains of influenza virus and has laid the basis for novel approaches to the design of new drugs against influenza.

Expertise type

  • Medical Sciences
  • Proteins
  • Structural Biology
  • X-ray Crystallography
  • Influenza Virus

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