Conference Dinner

Where:

Pier One, Sydney Harbour
11 Hickson Road, Walsh Bay, Sydney

Speaker:

Professor Merlin Crossley has been Dean of Science at the University of New South Wales since 2010. He also serves on the Trust of the Australian Museum, is Deputy Chair on the Board of the Australian Science Media Centre, sits on the Boards of the Sydney Institute of Marine Science, and New South Innovations, and is on the Council of the EMBL Australia.
He undertook his BSc at the University of Melbourne, majoring in genetics and microbiology, moved to Oxford University supported by a Rhodes Scholarship, and then did post-doctoral research at Oxford and Harvard before taking up a position at the University of Sydney, where he was Professor of Molecular Genetics 2005-9, Acting Dean of Science 2004, Director of Research for the College of Sciences and Technology 2005, and Acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research from 2006-8.
Merlin continues to teach and run a lab at UNSW and has received several awards for his work on gene control, including the Australian Academy of Science's Gottschalk Medal, the Royal Society of NSW's Edgeworth David Medal, the Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology's Roche Medal, and the Julian Well's Medal from the Lorne Genome Conference. He is an enthusiastic science communicator who contributes frequent newspaper and other media articles on science, education and policy.

When: 

Tuesday 5th May 2014 - 7pm-11pm

Includes:

Three course meal and drinks for the evening