Biological Sciences
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| Name | Institution and Research interest |
| 2022 | |
| Dr Axel Moehrenschlager | Calgary Zoo Foundation, Canada Wildlife conservation and science |
| Professor Mark W Denny | Stanford University, USA Biomechanics, conservation physiology, stressors and acclimation, ecological mechanics |
| Professor. J. Stephen Lodmell | University of Montana, USA Nucleic acids biochemistry; molecular virology, innate immune responses to infection |
| 2021 | No visitors |
| 2020 |
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| Associate Professor Paul Martin | Queens University, Canada Ecology, Behaviour, Evolution, Biogeography, Conservation |
| 2019 |
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| Professor Peter Kotanen | University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada Plant Ecology (Biological Invasions/Plant-herbivore Interactions) |
| DR TIMOTHY WEIL | University of Cambridge, UK Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology |
| Professor Meeghan Gray | Truckee Meadows College, USA Physiology, Reproduction, Animal Behaviour, Teaching Scholar, Equity, and Diversity |
| Professor Emeritus Tom Laue | University of New Hampshire, USA Biophysics/Biochemistry |
| 2018 | |
| Associate Professor Aron Fenton | University of Kansas Medical Center, USA Allosteric Regulation of Enzymes, Enzymatic Control of Metabolic Pathways |
| Associate Professor Matthew Reudink | Thompson Rivers University, Canada Behavioural Ecology, Conservation Biology |
| Professor Martin Serra | Allegheny College, USA Biochemistry, Biophysics, Chemistry |
| Associate Professor Mark Silby | University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA Microbiology |
| Professor Borries Demeler | University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA), USA Biochemistry/Biophysics |
| Professor Christopher Eckert | Queens University, Canada Rapid Evolution in Plants, Ecology of Sexual Systems |
| 2017 | |
| Associate Professor James Moir | University of York, UK Biochemistry/Microbiology |
| Professor Thomas Laue | University of New Hampshire, USA Biochemistry, Biolmolecular Interactions, Biophysics |
| Professor Stephen Hawkins | University of Southampton, UK Marine Ecology, Marine Conservation, Shellfisheries, Climate Change Effects |
| 2016 | |
| Dr Caitlin Gabor | Texas State University, USA Behavioral ecology, behavioural endocrinology and conservation biology |
| Dr James Murphy | Walter and Eliza Hall Medical Institute, Australia Protein interaction within cells and how genetic mutations that perturb these interactions can cause human disease |
| 2015 | |
| Associate Professor Matthew Bracken | University of California Irvine, USA Uncovering the causes & consequences of biodiversity changes in marine ecosystems, through experimental & isotopic analyses of communities |
| Associate Professor Adam Chippindale | Queen's University at Kingston, Canada Evolutionary biology |
| Associate Professor Jeff Johnson | University of North Texas, USA Conservation genetics/genomics of birds, with an emphasis on the incorporation of genetic- and genomic-based methods in active conservation programs |
| Dr Axel Moehrenschlager | Calgary Zoological Society, Canada Recovery of threatened species, with an emphasis on the science, policy and practice of species reintroduction |
| Professor Scott Wissinger | Allegheny College, USA Freshwater ecology; esp aquatic invertebrates, their functional roles in streams & wetland ecosystems & their interactions with vertebrate predators |
| Associate Professor Andre Hudson | Rochester Institute of Technology, USA A key focus in the Hudson laboratory is the enzymology of amino acid metabolism in plants and bacteriay |
| 2014 | |
| Professor Elisar Barbar | Oregon State University, USA The assembly, structure, and function of large protein complexes, including the molecular motor dynein and nuclear pore complexes. |
| Professor Michael Lawes | Charles Darwin University, Australia Forest ecology & conservation; behavioural & evolutionary ecology; primatology |
| Professor Jerry Turnbull | University of Liverpool, UK Glycobiology expert, specialising in heparan sulphate biology in cell regulation, disease and drug discovery |
| 2013 | |
| Associate Professor Ashley M Buckle | Monash University, Australia Biochemistry; bioinformatics; structural biology |
| Associate Professor Pierre-Michel Forget | Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, France Seed dispersal; predation & seedling regeneration; animal-plant interactions- rodents, bats primates; effect of fragmentation on seed ecology, gene flow |
| 2012 | |
| Associate Professor David Liberles | University of Wyoming, USA Genomics; bioinformatics; evolutionary biology |
| Professor Robert Warner | University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Behavioural ecology, the interaction of behaviour and life history, population ecology, particularly in coral reef fishes, marine conservation ecology |
| Professor Richard Neutze | University of Gothenburg, Sweden Structural biology; molecular biophysics |
| Professor Thomas Laue Biochemistry |
University of New Hampshire, USA Biochemistry; biomolecular interactions; biophysics |
| 2011 | |
| Associate Professor Matthew Perugini | University of Melbourne, Australia Protein structure and function; enzymes of metabolism; analytical ultracentrifugation protein interactomes |
| Professor Robert Warner | University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Behavioural ecology, the interaction of behaviour and life history, population ecology, particularly in coral reef fishes, marine conservation ecology |
| 2010 | |
| Dr Kevin J McGraw | Arizona State University, USA Behavioural ecology, especially animal colouration |
| Professor George H Lorimer (Bio Chemistry) | University of Maryland, USA Enzymology of photosynthesis; biological chemistry; enzyme mechanisms; study of Rubicso |
| 2009 | |
| Professor Alison Smith (Biochemistry) | University of Cambridge, UK Metabolism of plants, algae and bacteria |
| Professor Evan DeLucia | University of Illinois, USA Physiological ecology of vascular plants, photosynthesis, plant architecture, stress, climate change |
| Professor Steven Gaines | University of California Santa Barbara,USA Marine ecology; conservation biology; ecological modelling; larval transport; coastal climate change |
| Associate Professor Bridget Mabbutt | Macquarie University, Australia Structure & function of proteins; protein NMR; structural genomics of the bacterial mobile metagenome |
| 2008 | |
| Professor John Carver | University of Adelaide, Australia Protein aggregation; heat shock proteins |
| Professor Thomas Chen | University of Connecticut, USA Function of hormone in growth and cancer |
| Professor Joel H Rothman | University of California Santa Barbara, USA Cell and molecular biology, particularly of development in the model animal C.elegans |
| Professor Joshua Schimel | University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Environmental microbiology, soil-plant relationships |
| 2007 | |
| Dr Edward G Gregorich | Ottawa Research Centre, Canada Microbial nutrient processing and the fate of genetically modified plants in soil |
| Associate Professor Simon J Hiscock | University of Bristol, UK Botany and plant evolutionary biology |
| Professor Kenneth R Olson | Indiana University School of Medicine, USA Cardiovascular physiology; especially of fishes |
| Professor Jeremy Turnbull | University of Liverpool, UK Glycobiology; biochemistry; biotechnology |
| Professor Ben C Sheldon | University of Oxford, UK Animal behaviour; evolutionary biology; population genetics |
| Professor Scott A Wissinger | Allegheny College, USA Freshwater ecology, especially the ecology and management of wetlands |
| 2006 | |
| Professor Mark Adams | University of New South Wales, Australia Forest ecology; productivity and nutrient cycling |
| Professor Richard G Burns | University of Queensland, Australia Molecular microbiology; food microbiology; microbial ecology; soil biochemistry |
| Professor Barbara L Peckarsky | University of Wisconsin, USA Freshwater ecology and aquatic entomology |
| Dr Matthew L Whiteman | Yong Loo Lin School of Med, Singapore Medical Biochemistry, free radical biochemistry, cell biology |
| 2005 | |
| Professor Terry Galloway | University of Manitoba, Canada Insect ecology; host-parasite interactions; aquatic entomology; agricultural entomology |
| Associate Professor Sue Grayston | University of British Columbia, Canada Microbial ecology; forest fertility |
| Associate Professor Kevin L Griffin | Columbia University, USA Environmental science; ecology; plant physiology; biogeochemistry; global change biology |
| Dr William F Laurance | Smithsonian Institute, Republic of Panama Terrestrial ecology; tropical forest ecology; habitat fragmentation; conservation biology |
| Professor Peter Lipton | University of Wisconsin, USA Cellular mechanisms of learning & memory; regulation of synaptic transmission by glycolysis; brain damage in stroke & heart attacks |
| Professor Olle Nerman | Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Mathematics and mathematical statistics |
| Dr Jon Slate | University of Sheffield, UK Evolutionary and quantitative genetics |
| 2004 | |
| Professor John R Barnett | University of Reading, UK Biophysics; structural botany; cell biology |
| Dr Frantisec Krahulec | Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic Plant evolutionary ecology and breeding systems |
| Dr David B Lank | Simon Fraser University, Canada Behavioural ecology; ornithology |
| Professor Roger Lew | York University, Canada Plant cell biology; membrane biochemistry; electrophysiology |
| Professor Karl J Niklas | Cornell University, USA Plant evolution; allometry; biomechanics; comparative functional morphology |
| Dr Pauline M Rudd | University of Oxford, UK Glycobiology |
| 2003 | |
| Professor Fred Allendorf | University of Montana, USA Population and evolutionary genetics; conservation biology |
| Dr Richard Bardgett | Lancaster University, UK Environmental microbiology and ecosystem processes |
| Professor Fred Benfield | Virginia Polytechnical Institute & State University, USA Stream ecology |
| Professor Benzion Cavari | Israeli Oceanographic Institute, Israel Molecular biotechnology, technology, transgenic fish, bioremediation, fish diseases, marine organisms, fish population genes. |
| Dr Alan R Harker | Brigham Young University, USA Microbiology; environmental engineering; undergraduate education |
| Professor Brian A Hazlett | University of Michigan, USA Behavioural ecology of crustacea |
| Professor Peter Lipton | University of Wisconsin, USA Cellular mechanisms of learning & memory; regulation of synaptic transmission by glycolysis; stroke & heart attack brain damage |
| Professor Malcolm C Press | University of Sheffield, UK Ecological, physiological, metabolic & molecular interaction between parasitic plants; regeneration ecology; global climate change ecology |
| 2002 | |
| Assoc. Professor Ian S Haworth | University of Southern California, USA Membrane transport processes; DNA interactions; protein structure etc |
| Professor David W Hopkins | University of Stirling, UK Decomposition, GM crops in nutrient cycling, forensic microbiology |
| Assoc. Professor Ülo Niinemets | University of Tartu, Estonia Plant ecology |
| Professor Robert W Ridge | International Christian University, Japan Cell biology; plant anatomy and physiology; plant-microbe interactions |
| Professor Louis Du Pasquier | "Basel Institute for Immunology, Switzerland" Vertebrate immune syst.evolution; antibody diversity & somatic mutation; major histocompatibility complex; lymphocyte receptors; vertebrate cloning |
| Dr Bart Kempenaers | "Max Planck Research Centre for Ornithology, Germany" Animal behaviour; evolutionary biology |
| Professor Jan A Pechenik | Tufts University, USA Marine biology; biology of invertebrates, invertebrate larvae, polychaete and molluscan ecophysiology |
| 2001 | |
| Professor William J Bond | University of Cape Town, South Africa Plant evolutionary biology - plant populations to global floras, ecology of terrestrial plants |
| Dr Peter Millard | Macaulay Land Use Research Institute, UK Plant ecophysiology; soil-plant interactions; plant nitrogen relations |
| Professor Ian J Molineux | University of Texas, USA Bacterial viruses; genetics; host-parasite interactions |
| Assoc Professor Janet L Leonard | University of California Animal behaviour, neuroethology; behavioural modelling |
| Professor Jerrel L Wilkens | University of Calgary, Canada Cardiovascular physiology of crustaceans |
| 2000 | |
| Professor Jonathan M Anderson | University of Exeter Decomposition in terrestrial ecosystems; nutrient cycling and global warming and soil ecology, esp. the role of organisms |
| Professor David Gutnick | Tel-Aviv University Bacterial physiology; bacterial metabolism; bioremediation; bacterial genetics. |
| Professor Byron B Lamont | Curtin University of Technology Plant ecology |
| Professor Herve Bercovier | The Hebrew University Clinical microbiology; fish diseases |
| Professor Terry D Galloway | University of Manitoba Entomology; parasitology |
| 1999 | |
| Dr Gijsbert M Lokhorst | Leiden University Taxonomy and phylogeny of green algae. |
| Prof Thomas T Chen | University of Connecticut Genetics and molecular biology of fish growth regulation |
| Assoc Prof Janusz M Gebicki | Macquarie University Biochemistry; free radical chemistry; radiation chemistry |
| Prof Robert Montgomerie | Queen's University Animal behaviour; evolutionary biology; statistics. |
| 1998 | |
| Prof Wayne M Becker | University of Wisconsin-Madison Plant biochemistry and molecular biology |
| Prof Robert M M Crawford | St Andrews University Stress physiology in plants |
| Dr Robert N Lightowlers | University of Newcastle Biochemistry; cell and molecular biology; genetics and neuroscience |
| Dr David W Hopkins | University of Dundee Soil microbiology & chemistry; decomposition of plant litter in soil & uses of NMR; carbon dynamics in upland soils; Antarctic soil microbiology |
| Dr Stuart Egginton | University of Birmingham Respiratory physiology; Antarctic fish biology; stress physiology |
| Prof Malcolm B Jones | University of Plymouth Biology, ecophysiology of littoral and estuarine vertebrates; effects of contaminants on crustacea |
| Dr Michael J Kingsford | University of Sydney Marine ecology |
| Prof Kenneth R Olson | University of Notre Dame, Indiana Fish physiology |