New Fed Fellows named
Thursday, 24 May, 2007
Twenty Federation Fellows for 2007 have been named by Federal Minister for Education Julie Bishop, including five from the wider biological field.
They include Professor Frank Caruso, who has received his second fellowship, and is working on building molecularly engineered polymer nanomaterials at the University of Melbourne.
The others are:
Dr William Heath, WEHI/University of Melbourne: In vivo imaging of the immune system in self tolerance and infectious disease.
Professor Peter Koopman, the University of Queensland: Deciphering genome function in animal development.
Professor Heiner Niemann, Institut fur Tierzucht Mariensee/University of Adelaide: Embryo genomics for engineering change.
Dr Peter Waterhouse, CSIRO Plant Industry/University of Sydney: Small RNAs: What makes a plant, a plant.
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