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- 23 May 2023Hear about how plants are being engineered to manufacture important drugs, or how tissue engineering and computational modelling are helping us improve health outcomes in tendon tears.
- How genomics is being used to bust common myths
- Name: Dr Melanie Shakespear
IMB: 2007-2012 PhD; 2012-2014 Research Officer; 2015-2018 Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Now: Director, COVID-19 Vaccine Strategy Taskforce, Australian Department of Health
- Professorial Research Fellow - GLInstitute for Molecular Bioscience
- Emeritus ProfessorInstitute for Molecular Bioscience
- Institute for Molecular Bioscience
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People have known for thousands of years that parents pass traits to their children, but it is only relatively recently that our technology has caught up to our curiosity, enabling us to delve into the mystery of how this inheritance occurs, and the implications for predicting, preventing and treating disease.
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