Professor

Steve Tyerman

FAA

Steve Tyerman
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Professor Tyerman is a world leader in the field of plant membrane transport. He has discovered key transporters, including channels for release of nitrogenous solutes into legume roots, central to symbiotic nitrogen fixation, and channels for sodium uptake in plant roots, central to plant responses to salinity. His outstanding work on plant-water relations includes discoveries of roles of aquaporins (water channels) and earlier use of the pressure-probe to understand mechanisms for turgor regulation. These contributions are unique in the successful application of new technologies at cellular and membrane levels to solve problems linked to stress physiology of whole plants.

Fields of research

31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
  • 3107 MICROBIOLOGY

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

Expertise type

  • Viticulture
  • Biology
  • Membrane Transport
  • Plant Biology
  • Plant Physiology

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Professor

Rod Tucker

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Rod Tucker
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Professor Tucker has made fundamental contributions in the field of telecommunications over a period of 25 years. He has played a leadership role in telecommunications research, both in Australia and internationally, and was a corecipient of the 1997 Australia Prize for his contributions to telecommunications. In a series of pioneering research contributions, he developed a revolutionary microwave circuit approach to the analysis and design of semiconductor lasers for high-speed optical fibre telecommunications systems. This work overcame a critical bottleneck in the capacity of telecommunications systems and led to a new generation of broad-band networks.

Fields of research

10 TECHNOLOGY
  • 1005 COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES
    • 100506 Optical Fibre Communications

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

Expertise type

  • Broadband Communication
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Engineering
  • Optical Fibres

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Dr

Liz Truswell

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Liz Truswell
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Dr Truswell is a leading authority in the application of palynology to problems in geology, palaeobotany and palaeoclimatology. She is distinguished for her work on the history of climate and vegetation in Australia during the Tertiary and for integrating this work with palynological studies from deep-sea sediments. She has also made important contributions to the stratigraphic palynology of the late Carboniferous and Permian Periods synthesising information on the evolution of sedimentary basins both in Australia and Antarctic. She is a recognised authority in the area of Antarctic geology, palynology and vegetation history during the Tertiary, utilising samples and data from her participation in oceanographic cruises to the Wilkes Coast and Ross Sea.

Expertise type

  • Earth Sciences
  • Geology
  • Palynolgy
  • Pollen

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Emeritus Professor

Ross Street

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Ross Street
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Professor Street has played a central part in the development of category theory and of its applications to diverse areas of mathematics. Many of the most important notions and results on enriched categories, two-categories, and bicategories, are due to him; and he has developed them with a completeness and a masterly elegance that greatly facilitate their use in particular problems of mathematics. He himself has applied these ideas to obtain important results in homological algebra, universal algebra, topos theory; non-abelian cohomology, homotopy theory, combinatorics, and computer science; while many further applications have been made by colleagues throughout the world, among whom his work has achieved great renown.

Fields of research

49 MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
  • 4904 PURE MATHEMATICS
    • 490403 Category Theory, K Theory, Homological Algebra

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

Expertise type

  • Algebra
  • Category Theory
  • Mathematics

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Professor

George Stephenson

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George Stephenson
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Professor Stephenson is a leading world figure in muscle research. He has made significant and well recognised contributions to our understanding of how muscles contract. His major interest has been in the link between electrical activity in the surface membrane of a muscle fibre and contractile activity, with special emphasis on the role of intracellular calcium. In the course of his research, he has developed techniques that have gained wide acceptance and have been adopted in laboratories throughout the world. He has proposed a novel mechanism for the regulation of muscle contraction that has generated great excitement in the field.

Fields of research

31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
  • 3109 ZOOLOGY
    • 310908 Animal Physiology - Biophysics
    • 310912 Comparative Physiology
  • 606 PHYSIOLOGY
32 BIOMEDICAL AND CLINICAL SCIENCES
  • 3208 MEDICAL PHYSIOLOGY
    • 320801 Cell Physiology

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

Expertise type

  • Membrane Transport
  • Muscle Function
  • Cell Biology
  • Biophysics
  • Animal Biology
  • Biology
  • Muscle Cell Physiology
  • Physiology

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Dr

Jenny Stauber

FAA FTSE

Jenny Stauber
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Jennifer Stauber is an international leader in ecotoxicology, with particular emphasis on metal contaminants in aquatic environments. Her research, spanning the interface of chemistry and biology, has greatly advanced our understanding of the toxicity of contaminants in organisms, from single-celled microalgae to humans. She has invented a range of new risk assessment protocols that are applied worldwide in research programs, industry and government, including the national water and sediment quality guidelines for environmental regulation in Australasia. In recognition of her ground-breaking research on environmental risk assessment, Stauber is invited as expert ecotoxicologist to many national and international advisory bodies.

Fields of research

31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
  • 3101 BIOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY
  • 3107 MICROBIOLOGY
    • 310799 Microbiology not elsewhere classified
41 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
  • 4104 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT
    • 410402 Environmental assessment and monitoring
    • 410404 Environmental Management

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

Expertise type

  • Main Group Metals
  • Bioassay
  • Coral Reefs
  • Environmental Risk Assessment
  • Biological Chemistry
  • Mining
  • Algae
  • Ecotoxicology
  • Water Quality
  • Biology

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Professor

Srini Srinivasan

AM FAA FRS

Srini Srinivasan
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Dr Srinivasan combines a background in mathematics and engineering with a research program on all aspects of insect vision especially the visual behaviour of bees and the properties of the component neurons. He has made a series of fundamental discoveries relating to vision by a moving eye, the matching of receptor and neuron fields to the properties of the visual world, and the performance of a natural low-level visual system. The interdisciplinary results made possible the design of new algorithms which are now implemented in new technology as a way of segmenting the three-dimensional world into separate objects.

Expertise type

  • Biology
  • Vision
  • Visual Processing

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Conversation with scientist

Professor Mandyam Veerambudi Srinivasan, bioengineer and neuroscientist

Interviewed by Professor Graham Farquhar on 21 November 2011. Mandyam Veerambudi Srinivasan (Srini) was born in Poona, India in 1948. Srini's early interests in making transistor radios with his dad led to an undergraduate degree in engineering at Bangalore University (1963-1968), where he learnt the many facets of engineering.
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Professor

Tam Sridhar

AO FAA FTSE

Tam Sridhar
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Professor Sridhar has solved an outstanding problem in macromolecular science by conceiving the filament stretching rheometer for measuring extensional viscosity. This significant breakthrough led to counterintuitive results and a new understanding of macromolecular chain conformation during deformation and triggered work in new areas. Several universities and industrial laboratories have adopted this technique. His contribution to multi-phase reaction engineering illuminates, in an incisive way, the inter-relationship between mass transfer and chemical reaction, in industrially important reactions. He has provided new strategies for using laboratory experiments for astute reaction design in which the local reaction environment can be tailored to meet specific goals.

Expertise type

  • Chemical Engineering
  • Engineering
  • Polymers

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Professor

Terry Speed

FAA FRS

Terry Speed
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Professor Speed has made a number of original contributions to statistics and genetics. He developed new approaches to modelling and depicting complex dependence relationships between arbitrary collections of random quantities, and much of the now active field of graphical and causal models builds on his research. He created new algebraic tools to extend and simplify the standard theory of analysis of variance. In genetics he has clarified the notion of genetic map function and significantly broadened the class of tractable stochastic models of genetic recombination. At the same time he has also carried out and published many innovative statistical analyses.

Expertise type

  • Genetics
  • Genomics
  • Bioinformatics
  • Biostatistics
  • Mathematics
  • Statistics

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Professor

Andrew Smith

FAA

Andrew Smith
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Dr Smith is distinguished for his work on membrane transport in plant cells. A pioneer in the application of chemiosmotic theory to eukaryotic cell membranes, his work has continually emphasised the role of proton extrusion in powering transport, in maintaining electric potential differences and in contributing to internal pH regulation. He has made major and decisive contributions to the resolution of mechanisms for, and control of, uptake of ammonium, chloride and bicarbonate ions, and recently to the discovery of a new transporter, the electrogenic potassium-sodium symporter of Chara. He has worked with algal and charophyte cells, with the leaves and roots of higher plants, and recently with mycorrhizal associations of plant and fungus. The implications of his work range from membrane biophysics to plant nutrition and aquatic botany.

Expertise type

  • Membrane Transport
  • Plant-microbe Interactions
  • Biology
  • Plant Biology
  • Plant Nutrition
  • Soil Biology

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