Ian Constable Lecture

The Ian Constable Lecture is an annual lecture given in Perth, Western Australia.

It honours the contribution and achievements of Professor Ian Constable, an Australian ophthalmologist and the founder and director of the Lions Eye Institute in Perth.

The Lecture has been given since 2000. Speakers have included Barry Marshall, Nobel Prize winner (2005, Physiology or Medicine). The 2008 Lecture was delivered on Monday 15 September by Associate Professor David Mackey, University of Melbourne Department of Ophthalmology, and Clinical Professor at the University of Tasmania, on 'The ‘I’ in Personalised Genetics'.

Years

2000: The inaugural Lecture was presented on October 4 at the University of WA’s Octagon Theatre by Professor Joseph Vacanti, the John Homans Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Director of the Wellman Surgical Laboratories, Laboratory for Tissue Engineering and Organ Fabrication, and Pediatric Transplantation at MGH.

2001: The 2001 Lecture was presented on September 19 at the University of WA’s Winthrop Hall by Dr Nadia Rosenthal, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Italy. The Lecture was ‘How to build a better muscle’.

2002: The 2002 Lecture was presented on September 18 at the University of WA’s Octagon Theatre by Professor Bob Williamson, Director of the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne on ‘The Impact of Human Genetics on Medicine - Genes, Ethics and the Community’.

2003: The 2003 Lecture was presented on September 10 at the FJ Clarke Lecture Theatre at the QEII Campus of the University of WA by Professor Mandyam V Srinivasan, Professor of Visual Science and Director of the Centre for Visual Science at the Australian National University, on ‘Insect Vision Navigation - applications in defence systems and planetary exploration’.

2004: The 2004 Lecture was presented on August 23 at the FJ Clarke Lecture Theatre at the QEII Campus of the University of WA by Professor Paul Sieving, Director, National Eye Institute, National Institute of Health; Bethesda, Maryland, on ‘Evolution of disease understanding - the X-factor uncovered’

2005: The 2005 Lecture was presented on April 21 at the University of WA’s Winthrop Hall by Professor Julian D. Gale, Premier’s Research Fellow and Professor of Computational chemistry at the Nanochemistry Research Institute, Curtin University of Technology. The Lecture was ‘The Computer as a Window on the Nanoworld’.

2006: The 2006 Lecture was presented on September 27 at the University of WA’s Octagon Theatre by Professor Barry Marshall, joint winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and Senior Principal Research Fellow Microbiology and Immunology, in The University of Western Australia’s School of Biomedical, Biomolecular and Chemical Sciences, on ‘Past Lessons and Future Possibilities for the Ulcer Bug’.

2007: The 2007 Lecture was delivered on September 10 at the University of WA’s Octagon Theatre by Professor Peter Quinn, Professor of Astronomy at the University of Western Australia's School of Physics and Premier's Fellow. Professor Quinn presented an overview of modern astronomy and mankind's quest to find the dawn of creation.

The 2008 Lecture was delivered on September 15 at the University of WA’s Octagon Theatre by Associate Professor David Mackey, University of Melbourne Department of Ophthalmology, and Clinical Professor at the University of Tasmania, on 'The ‘I’ in Personalised Genetics'.

The Lecture is a event which anyone can attend.

References

'Nobel winner reveals how ulcer bug could eradicate diseases', by Catherine MaddenThursday, 28 September 2006, ScienceNetworkWA, http://www.sciencewa.net.au/science_archive.asp?pg=30&NID=881

'What's on at UWA: 2007 Ian Constable Lecture': http://events.uwa.edu.au/event/[e-mail]/whatson/publicaffairs

'It's not all in the genes', Post Newspapers, Saturday 13 September 2008.