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Clarke, Adrienne Elizabeth (1938 - )

AO, AC, FAA, FTSE

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Botanist

Born: 6 January 1938 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Adrienne Elizabeth Clarke is a world renowned plant geneticist and was Laureate Professor of Botany at the Plant Cell Biology Research Centre of the University of Melbourne until 31 December 2005. She remains on at the University in an honorary position and continues to work on many government and private boards / committees and is heavily involved with many national and international scientific bodies. Clarke is a scientist of firsts; she was the first female appointed Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne, her team was the first to clone the gene (S gene) which regulates self-compatibility in plants and the first to clone the cDNA of an arabinogalactan protein (a class of plant proteoglycan). Throughout her career, Clarke has received many honours and awards including appointment as a Companion in the Order of Australia (AC) and as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA) and the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE).

Career Highlights

Chronology
1958 Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of Melbourne
1963 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) completed at the University of Melbourne
1964 Research Fellow at the Institute of Dental Research at the United Dental Hospital of Sydney
1967 Visiting Instructor in Department of Endocrine Physiology at Baylor University in Houston, Texas
1967 Research Fellow in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Michigan
1968 - 1969 Lecturer in Biochemistry at the University of Auckland
1969 - 1973 Research Fellow of the Asthma Foundation in the Department of Medicine at the University of Melbourne
1974 Research Fellow in the School of Botany at the University of Melbourne
1975 - 1977 Australian Research Grants Committee (ARGC) Research Fellow in the School of Botany at the University of Melbourne
1978 Lecturer in Botany at University of Melbourne
1979 Senior Lecturer in Botany at the University of Melbourne
1981 Reader in Botany at the University of Melbourne
1982 - Personal Chair at the School of Botany at the University of Melbourne
1982 - 1999 Director of the Plant Cell Biology Research Centre at the University of Melbourne
1985 - 1999 Professor of Botany at the University of Melbourne
1988 - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE)
1991 - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA)
1991 Officer of the Order of Australia (AO)
1991 - 1996 Chairman of CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation)
1992 ANZAAS Mueller Medal received (Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science)
1994 Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences
1997 - 1998 President of the International Society for Plant molecular Biology
1997 - 2000 Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria
1999 - 2005 Laureate Professor at the Plant Cell Biology Research Centre
2001 - 2003 Ambassador for Biotechnology for Victoria
2004 Companion of the Order of Australia (AC)
2004 President's Medal received from the Australian and New Zealand Society for Cellular and Developmental Biology

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'Adrienne Clarke', WISENET Journal, vol. 29, July, 1992, http://www.wisenet-australia.org/profiles/aclarke.htm. [ Details ]

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Prepared by: Annette Alafaci
Created: 20 October 1993
Modified: 10 January 2006

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