School of Biological Sciences
University of Sydney
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Autoimmunity & Transplantation Division
The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
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Vascular Research
Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN)
The University of Queensland
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School of Botany
University of Melbourne
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Prof. Richard ShineRichard Shine is a Professor of Biology at the University of Sydney, and a Federation Fellow of the Australian Research Council. He has conducted extensive field and laboratory-based research on reptiles and amphibians in many parts of the world, with an emphasis on the ecology, evolution and conservation of snakes. He has published more than 600 papers in scientific journals, and attracted many national and international awards for his work. The major thrust of his current research involves approaching conservation challenges from an evolutionary perspective, and embedded within a detailed understanding of reptile and amphibian biology.
Prof. Leonard C. HarrisonLen Harrison is a Senior Principal Research Fellow of the National Health and Medical Research Council (NH&MRC), Australia. He heads the Autoimmunity and Transplantation Division at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne and is Professor/Director of the Burnet Clinical Research Unit and Department of Immunology and Allergy at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. He has authored 450 research publications, chapters and reviews on the actions of hormones and immune mechanisms of disease. His research is focused on the pathogenesis and prevention of diabetes and he has received a number of awards for research including a C.J. Martin Fellowship (NHMRC), the Wellcome (Glaxo) Australia Medal, the Susman Prize from the Australasian College of Physicians, the Kellion Medal from the Australian Diabetes Society and the Rumbough Award for scientific excellence from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) International. Len has been Secretary and President of the Australian Diabetes Society, Director of the Australian Society for Medical Research, Chairman of the Scientific Review Committee (Immunology and Genetics) of JDRF International, member of the JDRF Research Advisory Board, Chair, Professional Advisory Panel of JDRF Australia and President of the Immunology of Diabetes Society.
Prof. Julie H Campbell AO FAAJulie Campbell is a Senior Principal Research Fellow of the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia, Director of the Centre for Research in Vascular Biology at the University of Queensland, and Director of the Wesley Research Institute at the Wesley Hospital. Her major research interest over the last 30 years has been the cell biology of vascular smooth muscle in the normal artery wall and in diseased states such as atherosclerosis. Recently she developed a vascular conduit, grown in the peritoneal cavity, from autologus bone marrow-derived cells. In 1995 she was awarded the Wellcome Australia Medal and in 2000 was elected to the Australian Academy of Science. In 2003 she received a Centenary Medal, and in 2004 was named a ‘Queensland Great’. She was awarded an Order of Australia, Officer (AO) in the General Division in June 2006 and in 2007 Queensland Businesswoman of the Year - Public & Not for Profit Section.
Prof. Geoff McFaddenGeoff McFadden took a BSc (Hons) at the University of Melbourne. He made two trips to Antarctica to study sea ice algae while completing a PhD in the Botany School, University of Melbourne in 1984. He then took up a three year postdoctoral position in algal cell biology in Muenster, Germany. Geoff returned to Australia on a prestigious QEII Fellowship in 1987 to join Prof Adrienne Clarke's Plant Cell Biology Research Centre where he worked on the molecular biology of barley and tobacco. He subsequently received an ARC Senior Research Fellowship then a Professorial Research Fellowship to investigate the origin of chloroplast by endosymbiosis. In 1995 Geoff took up a post at the Institute for Marine Biosciences in Halifax Canada. Geoff now holds the Australian Research Council's premier post of Federation Fellow and is back in the School of Botany, University of Melbourne. Geoff identified the relict chloroplast in malaria parasites and is developing herbicides as antimalarial drugs. He has published 150 papers, many in high profile journals such as Nature, Science, EMBO J, and PNAS. He has ten papers with more than 100 citations, 5,069 career citations, and an h-index of 37. Geoff has been awarded the Goldacre Medal, the Australian Academy of Science's Frederick White Prize, two Howard Hughes Medical Institute Scholar's awards, The David Syme Medal, the Woodward Medal for excellence in Science & Technology, the Julian Wells Medal, the Miescher-Ishida Prize, and is a member of the Australian Academy of Sciences. Geoff's PhD students have also received prestigious awards such as a Victoria Fellowship, a Peter Doherty Fellowship, a CJ Martin Fellowship and the Premier's Prize for medical research in recent years. Geoff lives near Bells Beach and surfs as much as he can.