Annual Report 1999

The Menzies Foundation Lectures

In 1999, the Menzies Foundation sponsored two Menzies Lectures held conjointly with other organisations.

ScienceNOW!

The first Menzies Foundation lecture for 1999 was the ScienceNOW! plenary lecture held during Science Week on 6 May. The guest lecturer was Ms Laurie Garrett, a former president of the National Association of Science Writers who extensively covered the outbreak of the AIDS epidemic for National Public Radio. Ms Garratt is now a feature writer on Newsday, a daily paper in New York and the author of The Coming Plague, a well received book about emerging diseases worldwide. Her lecture centred on an analysis of deteriorating public health measures in modern-day Russia and our own complacency about public health. The Chair for the lecture was Sir Gustav Nossal.

Ms Laurie Garrett, ScienceNOW! guest lecturer
Ms Laurie Garrett
Centre for Molecular Biology and Medicine

Dr Mark Schena and Professor Tony Linnane The second public lecture sponsored by the Foundation in 1999 was held in association with the Centre for Molecular Biology and Medicine on 19 October. The lecture entitled "Current and Future Trends in the Application of DNA Microarray Technology" was delivered by Dr Mark Schena from California.

Dr Schena is one of the pioneers in microarray gene technology and its application to functional genomics. He is the editor of DNA Microarrays - a Practical Approach.

Dr Mark Schena with Professor Tony Linnane, Director of the Centre for Molecular Biology and Medicine