Interactive High School Lecture Series

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