This week on radio, Tim Thwaites is talking about dolphin friends; guns around the house; laundry lint; mosquitoes in the rain; and more… [Read more…] about Dolphin friends, guns around the house, laundry lint and mosquitoes in the rain
Inaugural Centenary Institute Lawrence Creative Prize for Melbourne researcher to tackle lung cancer
The winner of the Centenary Institute Lawrence Creative Prize is Marie-Liesse Asselin-Labat, from Melbourne’s Walter and Eliza Hall Institute (WEHI).
Having unravelled key information on how and why breast stem cells contribute to the progression of breast cancer, she is now turning to the challenge of lung cancer. [Read more…] about Inaugural Centenary Institute Lawrence Creative Prize for Melbourne researcher to tackle lung cancer
Keeping our best young bioscience brains in Australia
Centenary Institute Lawrence Creative Prize to be announced today
The winner of the Centenary Institute Lawrence Creative Prize will be announced at 1.45 pm today, Wednesday 19 October 2011, at a lunch at UBS in Sydney.
The winner will receive $25,000. [Read more…] about Keeping our best young bioscience brains in Australia
Immune peacekeepers discovered
How our skin says, “Don’t worry, these are good guys,” revealed today in PNAS.
There are more bacteria living on our skin and in our gut than cells in our body. We need them. But until now no-one knew how the immune system could tell that these bacteria are harmless.
Lawrence Creative Prize finalists
The Centenary Institute Lawrence Creative Prize is a $25,000 award for outstanding creativity in biomedical research by young scientists. Here are the three finalists. The winner will be announced at an awards luncheon on Wednesday 19 October at the UBS dining room in Sydney. For more information call Niall on 0417 131 977 or niall@scienceinpublic.com.au
Science in Public this week (17-23 Oct 2011)
Immune Peacekeepers: Centenary Institute’s Barbara Fazekas St Groth has a paper coming out in PNAS Tuesday.
Centenary Creative Prize: Andrew and Niall are in Sydney to attend the $25,000 Lawrence Creative Prize on Wednesday.
Tamara Davis is talking Dark Energy at UQ in Brisbane, 6.30pm Wednesday.
Science in Public this week (10-16 Oct 2011)
PM’s Prizes: Niall, Sarah, Tim and AJ are at the PM’s Prizes for Science in Canberra. Details here.
Dark Energy: Tamara Davis is talking about dark energy in Victoria. details here.
On the horizon: For next week we’re thinking about the Centenary Prize for Creativity, and about an intriguing paper coming up about the immune cells in our skin – why don’t they go to war against our skin bacteria?
Mentor of L’Oréal Fellow wins Nobel Prize
Tamara Davis, 2009 L’Oréal Australia Fellow tells of how she felt when she heard her mentors had won the Nobel Prize. Tuesday morning found me dancing in excitement when I heard the news that Brian Schmidt, Saul Perlmutter, and Adam Riess had won the Nobel Prize for their discovery of the acceleration of the expansion […]
Booze and the immune system, general anaesthetic and a nose for death
This week on radio, Tim Thwaites is talking about booze and the immune system; Twitter and the world’s mood; general anaesthetic; a nose for death; and more… [Read more…] about Booze and the immune system, general anaesthetic and a nose for death
Travelling faster than light, a vaccine for acne and missing planets
This week on radio, Tim Thwaites is talking about travelling faster than light; ancient proteins; a vaccine for acne; missing planets; and more… [Read more…] about Travelling faster than light, a vaccine for acne and missing planets