Outreach

Academics from the John Curtin School of Medical Research reviewed grants and manuscripts, were involved in thesis examinations, served as consultants, and gave guest and invited lectures and media interviews. Other service, in 2002, to outside organisations appears below

 

Professor GL Ada
Member of the Australian Influenza Vaccine Committee
Member of the Programme Advisory Committee and Programme Executive Committee of the Australian HIV Vaccine Consortium
Scientific patron of the Austin Research Institute, Melbourne
Referee for the Wellcome Trust, the Academy of Science and for manuscripts submitted to the Lancet
Chair of a Committee to assess candidates for Prime Minister's Life Sciences Award

Dr R Baker
Director and Vice-President, Genome Conference Inc
Executive Director and Treasurer of the Australian Society for Medical Research
Expert Consultant to the Human Gene Nomenclature Committee, London.
Member of NHMRC Grant Review Panel 1A (Biochemistry)
Guest lecturer in Biol2152 Advances in Human Genetics (ANU)
Careers Night Speaker, Canberra Boys Grammar School, Canberra
High Fliers National Research Priorities Strategic Forum, Australian Academy of Science

Dr J Banyer
CSIRO 2002 Student Scheme

Dr J Bekkers
Consultant to Axon Instruments, Foster City, USA

Prof RV Blanden
Member of the Editorial Boards of Immunology and Cell Biology, and the Asia-Pacific Journal of Biotechnology
Chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the National Centre in HIV Virology Research

Dr P Board
Member, Editorial Board of the Biochemical Journal.
Advisor to Parkinson's NSW Inc
Gave presentations on Parkinson's Disease research to the ACT Parkinson's support group
Consultant to Biotron Limited

Dr P Cooper
Consultant for The National Health Sciences Centre, The Canberra Hospital and for GlaxoSmithKline sa

Dr A Dulhunty
Consultant for BIOTRON.
Reader for ARC and an assessor for NHF.
GRP member for NHMRC.
Board of Directors of the ACT Orthopaedic and Muscular-skeletal Research Foundation

Prof S Easteal
Editor, Molecular Biology and Evolution
Member, Advisory Board, Sydney University Biological Informatics and Technology Centre
Member, Research Committee, Australian Institute of Sport
Member, Advisory Committee, NHMRC Centre for Mental Health Research
Member of the Council of Scientific Editors
Member, Bioinformatics Industry Opportunity Taskforce, Department of Industry, Science and Resources
Member, NHMRC Genetics Project Grant Review Panel
Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Entigen Inc, Sunnyvale, California
Councillor, Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution
Member, Organizing Committee, Lorne Genome Conference; Organizing Committee, XIX International Congress of Genetics

Prof F Fenner
Member, Smallpox Expert Group
Member, Infectious Disease Emergency Response Group
Member, Chemical, Biological, Radiological Commonwealth/State Forum of the Department of Health and Ageing
Member, Prime Minister's Science, Engineering and Innovation Council.

Dr P Foster
Associate Editor, Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Member of the executive committee of the International Eosinophil Society
Member of working group for the basic science section of the International Eosinophil Meeting, Colorado, USA, 2003.

Prof PW Gage
President of the Australian Physiological and Pharmacological Society
Member of the Editorial Committee of the Journal of Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology
Member, the Scientific Board of the Motor Neurone Disease Research Institute of Australia
Reader for ARC.
Honorary member of the Australian Society of Anasthestists

Prof C Goodnow
Member of the Australian Society of Immunology
Member, American Association of Immunologists
Member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Member of a number of advisory boards including: NHMRC Project Grants Review Panel 2a
Meeting Co-organizer, Keystone Symposia 2002
Member, Scientific Advisory Board , Australian Genome Research Facility
Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Illumina, Inc, San Diego
Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Genome Institute of the Novaratis Foundation, San Diego
Member, Editorial Boards of the Journal of Experimental Medicine, Immunity, Immunological Reviews, Internal Immunology, Current Biology and Genome Biology

Dr JE Gready
Convenor of the Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Bioinformatics Special Interest Group

Prof IA Hendry
Science advisor on the board of the Wenkart Foundation
Member of the John James Memorial Ethics Committee
Member of the editorial board of International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience

Dr CE Hill
Member, Training Awards Committee, National Health and Medical Research Council
Member, Cardiovascular Health Advisory Committee of the National Board of the National Heart Foundation

Dr PD Jeffrey
Member of the Australian Science Festival Advisory Council.

Dr K Matthaei
Consultant for the Australian Quarantine Inspection Service
Member of ANU Equity Diversity Consultative Group

Dr S Oleskevich
State Representative (ACT), Australian Neuroscience Society
Presenter, radio interview with 2CN-ABC, Canberra, and promotional video for JCSMR
Also involved in career orientation and work experience for Madeline Fischer

Prof C Parish
Editor-in-Chief of Immunology and Cell Biology
Member, Medical Research Advisory Committee of the Australian Cancer Research Foundation
Chair of a NHMRC Research Fellowships Committee Peer Review Advisory Panel
Member, NHMRC Research Fellowships Committee
ANU representative on the Program Management Committee of the Australian HIV Vaccine Consortium
Vice-President of the Australasian Society for Immunology

Prof IA Ramshaw
Member, Scientific Advisory Panel, Westmead Institute for Cancer Research
Member, Editorial Board, Viral Immunology, Microbes and Infection. Faculty 1000

Prof SJ Redman
Member, Editorial Boards of Neuroscience (Section Editor), Journal of Neurophysiology, Trends in Neuroscience, Journal of Computational Neuroscience, Neuroreport, Synapse, Journal of Neuroscience Methods, European Journal of Neuroscience, Journal of Clinical Neuroscience and Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology
Member, Executive Committee of the International Brain Research Organization
Member, Research Advisory Board of the Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute
Member, Board of Neurosciences Australia
Chair of the Gordon Research Conference on Synaptic Transmission to be held in 2004

Dr P Sah
Convenor for Neuroscience Graduate Program

Dr C Schyvens
4th National Science Teachers' Summer School, ANU
Member of the Organising Committee, Medical Research Week Expo, Australian Society for Medical Research
Secretary, ACT branch of the Australian Society for Medical Research
Co-chair of the Cardiorespiratory and Renal Curriculum Group for the development of a 4 year post graduate medical degree, ANU
Member of the ANU Animal Experimentation Ethics Committee

Dr F Shannon
Member of an NHMRC Project grant assessment panel, 2002
Chairman of the Lorne Genome Conference organizing committee for 2003

Dr C Simeonovic
Member, Editorial Board of Cell Transplantation
Member of Council, Society Liaison Officer, The Transplantation Society of Australia and New Zealand
Organiser on behalf of the Transplantation Society of Australia and New Zealand of two Transplantation symposia" Transplantation Today and Tomorrow" I. Immune Tolerance and II. Clinical Advances, The Australian Health & Medical Research Congress, Melbourne, 2002

Dr G Stuart
Guest lecturer in Biol3101 (ANU)
Project Grant assessor for NH&MRC
Teacher at the Cold Spring Harbour (USA) course on the "Physiology of Ion Channels" and the International Brain Research Organisation School of Neuroscience in Hong Kong.

Dr SA Thomson
Co-organiser for The Canberra Hospital Annual Scientific Meeting, Canberra

Dr D Tremethick
Invited analyst for Chemtract, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Chair of COMBIO Meeting, Sydney.

Dr B Walmsley
Associate Editor of Neuroscience Letters
Member of an NHMRC Project Grants Discipline Panel
Lecturer, Department of Physiology, University of New South Wales

Dr HS Warren
Member of the Editorial Board of Immunology and Cell Biology

Prof JA Whitworth
Director, Anutech Pty Ltd
Member, ACT Government Knowledge Based Economy Board
Honorary Ambassador for Women
Member, Selection Committee, Mayne Florey Medal
Member, University of New South Wales, External Independent Inquiry
Chair, Advisory Panel, Commonwealth Health Minister's Award for Excellence in Health & Medical Research
Trustee, High Blood Pressure Research Foundation of Australia
Member, Global Advisory Committee on Health Research, WHO
Member, WHO Expert Advisory Panel on Health Science & Technology Policy
Member, Task Force on Cardiovascular Disease Education for Women, Joint World Heart Federation/WHO
Chair, Selection Committee for Francesco Pocchiari Award, WHO
Coordinator, WHO, ACHR Peer Review sub-committee
Member, International Society of Hypertension (ISH) Scientific Program Committee (Prague 2002)
WHO/ISH Liaison Committee
Co-Chair WHO/ISH Guidelines Writing Committee
Member, ISH International Scientific Program Committee (Sao Paulo 2004)
Member, Organising committee, WHO/ISH Stroke meeting (2002)

Dr DO Willenborg
Member of the International Advisory Board, International Society of Neuroimmunology
Member, Editorial Board of Journal of Neuroimmunology, Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology
Associate Editor Journal of Immunology

Prof IG Young
Editor DNA Sequence
Member, Biological Defence Advisory Committee, (Department of Defence)
Grant reviewer, Wellcome Trust, Research Grants Council, Hong Kong