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Lecture- Sentinel chickens: what birds can tell us about our health and

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Subject: Lecture- Sentinel chickens: what birds can tell us about our health and world- Monday, 10 September 2012
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Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2012 08:53:14 +1000
This talk may be of interest to some members-
Robin Hide

http://billboard.anu.edu.au/event_view.asp?id=95017
Public Lecture
Sentinel chickens: what birds can tell us about our health and world

Canberra Times / ANU Literary Event: Meet the Author Series 2012

Through personal stories and fascinating examples, Nobel Prize winner Professor Peter Doherty shows how birds have contributed to cutting-edge medical research. Studying birds has helped us to understand the nature of human cancer, malaria and influenza, and contributed to the development of new vaccines and cures.

In his trademark style, Peter argues that since birds pollinate, spread plant seeds and control insects, endangering their habitats through human activities is a threat to our own wellbeing. Birds continually sample the atmosphere, oceans, fields and forests, signalling toxic and environmental dangers that threaten all vertebrates.

Professor Doherty’s pioneering research at ANU into human immune systems earned him the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine in 1996.

He was Australian of the Year and awarded a Companion of the Order of Australia in 1997, and currently divides his professional time between the University of Melbourne and St Jude Children’s Hospital in Memphis, where he is helping to unravel the mystery of childhood cancer.

Book sales and signings will follow the lecture.

Click here to register

Speaker/Host: Professor Peter Doherty
Venue: Theatre 1 Manning Clark Centre, Union Court, ANU
Date: Monday, 10 September 2012
Time: 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Website: http://peterdoherty.eventbrite.com/
Enquiries: on 6125 4144

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