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Two Victorians named L'Oreal for Women in Science Fellows
L’Oréal has recognised two pioneering young scientists from Melbourne and one from Hobart with L’Oréal for Women in Science Fellowships.
Fellows were chosen from 230 applicants by a panel of eminent scientists. The Fellowship funds are intended to further the Fellows’ research and may be used for any expenses they incur, including childcare. The program is part of L’Oréal’s global support for women in science.
The 2013 L’Oréal for Women in Science Fellows are:
Tracking the spread of deadly diseases
Dr Kathryn Holt, Bio21 Institute, The University of Melbourne
Dr Kathryn (Kat) Holt is using genetics, maths and supercomputers to study the whole genome of deadly bacteria and work out how they spread. Looking at a typhoid epidemic in Kathmandu, she found that it didn’t spread in the way we thought epidemics did. Her research, published in Nature Genetics, will change how we respond to epidemics.
Kat will use her L’Oréal For Women in Science Fellowship to understand how antibiotic-resistant bacteria spread in Melbourne hospitals. Are people catching these superbugs in hospital, or are they bringing the bugs into hospital with them? Can we give the intensive care clinicians early warning of a drug-resistant bacteria in their patients?
When killing saves lives: our immune system at work
Dr Misty Jenkins, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne
Dr Misty Jenkins spends a lot of her time watching killers at work: the white blood cells of the body that eliminate infected and cancerous cells. She can already tell you a great deal about how they develop into assassins and arm themselves.
Now with the support of her L’Oréal For Women in Science Fellowship Misty is exploring how they become efficient serial killers—killing one cancer cell in minutes and moving on to hunt down others.
Her work will give us a greater understanding of our immune system and open the way to better manage T cells to defeat disease.
How Australia and India broke up—100 million years ago
Dr Joanne Whittaker, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart
Dr Joanne (Jo) Whittaker likes to solve jigsaw puzzles. Now this marine geoscientist is tackling the biggest puzzle on the planet—the formation of continents.
With the help of Australia’s national marine research vessels, and now her L’Oréal Fellowship, Jo is reconstructing how the Indian, Australian and Antarctic tectonic plates separated over the past 200 million years, forming the Indian Ocean and the continents as we see them today. This information will help us model climate change better, find new gas resources, and understand the dynamics of the land in which we live.
All photographs are credited: L’Oréal Australia/sdpmedia.com.au
veski connection members in the news
Apr 2020 | Royal Society
Prof Jane Visavader, 2018 Victoria Prize for Science & Innovation recipient, elected to the Royal Societyin 2020
“The real benefit of increasing fabrication rates is the transition from prototyping, making one offs, to actually going into production.”
Assoc Prof Timothy Scott
Nov 2019 | Bionics Institute
Dr Thushara Perera, 2016 Victoria Fellow, received the prestigious AMP Foundation’s Tomorrow Fund
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