Interactive High School Lecture Series
Enquiries:
Education Coordinator
Mrs Simone Cross
Phone: 61 (0)7 3362 0307
Email: education@qimr.edu.au
Tues 29th, Wed 30th & Thurs 31st July 2008, Westpac Auditorium, Bancroft Centre.
Held at the end of July each year, the High School Lecture Series is attended by
up to 1000 Grade 11 & 12 Biology students from SE Queensland and their teachers.
Seminars are ~15 minutes; questions ~10 minutes.
- MC - Dr Tim Hurst
- Mobile Microphones - Heather Smith, Cheryl Filippich, Jane Palmer
- 9.15-9.25am
- Welcome Address
- Prof Michael Good, Director QIMR
- Prof Adele Green, Deputy Director, QIMR
- Prof Martin Lavin, Assistant Director, QIMR
- 9.25-9.55am
- "Queenslands Smart Science"
- Prof Peter Andrews, Queensland Chief Scientist
- 9.55-10.25am
- "Will Redheads be extinct in 100 years?"
- Dr Peter Visscher, Queensland Statistical Genetics
- 10.25-10.55am
- "How to Make a Human"
- Dr Derek Richard, Signal Transduction Lab
- 10.55-11.45am
- "Kicking Cancers' Butt"
- PostDoc Assoc, Childrens Cancer Institute, Australia
- 12.00-12.45pm
- Lunch and Displays
- 12.45-1.15pm
- "Controlling Mossies in Oz"
- Drs Jason Jeffrey,Tim Hurst,Leon Hugo, Mosquito Control Lab
- 1.15-1.45pm
- "Why Vaccinate?"
- A/Prof Andreas Suhrbier, Immunovirology Lab
- 1.45-2.00pm
- "How the Western was Done[movie]"
- Katherine Wynn/Michelle Neller, Tumour Immunology/therapy Lab
- 2.00pm
- Close
- Simone Cross, Education Co-ordinator



