AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY FOR BIOPHYSICS 26th Annual Conference Melbourne November 29th to 30th, 2002

Another very successful Annual Conference of the Society was held in Melbourne. The standard of the oral and poster presentations was excellent and the meeting was very well organised. Congratulations to Paul Gooley and the Organising Committee for a job well done and thanks to everyone who participated, in particular our invited speakers from near and far. The conference reflected very nicely both the diversity of our field and the friendly character of our Society. The number of registrants (around 95, making it one of our larger meetings) was large enough to ensure a lively conference but small enough to maintain the informality which is an enjoyable feature of our annual conferences.

A number of outcomes of the conference deserve special mention:

i) Bob Robertson Medal The conference saw the inauguration of an invited lecture in honour of Sir Rutherford (Bob) Robertson’s contribution to biophysics in Australia, as well as to Australian science generally. The inaugural medallist was Professor Hans Coster, who was presented with a medal and a cheque and presented a lecture at that conference. The medal was inaugurated to recognise outstanding contributions to biophysics and Hans’ entertaining lecture provided a fascinating insight into the contributions he has made to the field of membrane properties and structure, as well as to the development of biophysics in Australia. Congratulations Hans on this well-deserved award.

Hans Coster with Ray Norton

ii) Awards

Congratulations also to the winners of the 2002 ASB Young Biophysicist Award, Louise Brown (UNSW), and Student Presentation Awards, Till Boecking (UNSW) and Phillip Parker (La Trobe). It is very pleasing to see the high quality of work being carried out by all of our student presenters.

Louise Brown with Ray Norton

Till Boecking with Ray Norton

Ray Norton
President, Australian Society for Biophysics.
December 19, 2002

Announcement Notice of the Meeting