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Professor Mandyam Srinivasan has been awarded $1.25m Smart State Fellowship 
Professor Mandyam Srinivasan, a Chief Investigator of the Centre at its UQ node, has been awarded the prestigious Smart State Premier's Fellowship to continue his two-decade long research into how flying insects, such as bees, detect, chase and intercept moving targets. He will use a $1.25 million Smart State Fellowship to explore possible links between aggressive honeybees and the development of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). For details please visit the Queensland Government website http://statements.cabinet.qld.gov.au/MMS/StatementDisplaySingle.aspx?id=53612
Professor Mandyam Srinivasan has been awarded 2008 Rank Prize
Professor Mandyam Srinivasan, a Chief Investigator of the Centre, has been awarded 2008 Rank Prize in optoelectronics for his work on insect vision and its implications for robotics. The prize is awarded by the Rank Foundation who seeks to identify those individuals who have made a significant contribution to the sciences, on the one hand of human and animal nutrition and crop husbandry and, on the other, optoelectronics, where an initial idea has been carried through to practical applications that have, or will, demonstrably benefit mankind. For details please visit the Foundation website http://www.rankprize.org/index.html
Professor David Vaney has been elected President of the Australian Neuroscience Society
Professor David Vaney, a Chief Investigator of the Centre, has been elected President of the Australian Neuroscience Society for 2008 - 2009. He will also serve on the Council from 2007 - 2010.
Prime Minster’s Prize for Science for Centre’s Chief Investigator, Professor Srinivasan
Professor Srinivasan, a Chief Investigator and Associate Director of the Centre, has won the highest national Science Award, The Prime Minister’s Prize for Science. Professor Srinivasan was awarded this prize for his cutting-edge research that incorporates principles uncovered from basic research on flying insects, to design novel, biologically inspired visual guidance systems for autonomous self-navigating vehicles.
Prime Minister John Howard presented Professor Srinivasan with a gold medal and a cheque for $300,000 at a ceremony in the Great Hall at Parliament House.
For more information please visit The Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science website https://sciencegrants.dest.gov.au/scienceprize/Pages/PrizeWinners.aspx
Professor Srinivasan’s current research projects are described in Theme 2, for which he is Theme Leader, and also on his own web page.
Public Lecture by Dr Gerld J Chader
On 25 September 2006, Dr Gerald J Chader, Chief Scientific Officer of Doheny Retina Institute in Los Angeles, visited the ARC Centre of Excellence in Vision Science and delivered a public lecture on "Emerging therapies for retinal degenerative diseases". In his lecture he reviewed the rationale for current and future clinical trials for blinding diseases in the areas of transplantation, electronic prosthetic devices, pharmaceutical therapy, nutrition and gene therapy.
Dr Chader also visited the labs at the Centre and discussed current research at the Centre with various Centre Chief Investigators.
(L-R): Prof. Lamb, Dr Chader and Prof. Stone
Proctor Medal awarded to Trevor Lamb
Professor Trevor Lamb and his colleague Professor Ed Pugh (University of Pennsylvania) have been awarded the Proctor Medal of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO). The Proctor Medal is presented annually for outstanding research in the basic or clinical sciences as applied to ophthalmology.
Following the award at ARVO’s Annual Meeting in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Professors Lamb and Pugh delivered a lecture on their research “Phototransduction, Dark Adaptation and Rhodopsin Regeneration”.
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