Susan Serjeantson

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Susan Serjeantson

AO
Born
Susan Wyber

1946 (age 7475)
Riverstone, New South Wales, Australia
Other namesSusan Wyber Serjeantson
Alma mater University of Hawaii
Scientific career
FieldsGenetics
Institutions John Curtin School of Medical Research

Susan Wyber Serjeantson AO (born 1946) is an Australian geneticist and professor of genetics at the John Curtin School of Medical Research at the Australian National University.

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Academic career

Born Susan Wyber in 1946 in Riverstone, New South Wales, Serjeantson was educated at Caringbah High School. She was dux and school captain in 1963. [1]

Serjeantson completed a BSc at the University of New South Wales in 1967. In 1970 she graduated from the University of Hawaii with a PhD. [2]

She joined the Australian National University (ANU) in 1976 as a research fellow in the John Curtin School of Medical Research. [3] She was appointed full professor in 1988 [3] and in 1993 became Deputy Vice-Chancellor of ANU and Director of its Institute of Advanced Studies. [4] She resigned in 1997 and took up a visiting fellowship there. She was executive secretary of the Australian Academy of Science from 2001.

In 1994 she was interviewed by Ann Moyal and included as one of three women in Portraits In Science. [5]

Honours and recognition

Serjeantson was awarded the Clunies Ross Award for Science and Technology in 1992. [3] In that year she gave Ruth Sanger oration and was made a life member of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Blood Transfusion. [6]

In the 2000 Queen's Birthday Honours Serjeantson was made an Officer of the Order of Australia "service to science, particularly through research in the field of human genetics, and to academic administration as an advocate of scientific research in higher education". [7]

Serjeantson was awarded the 2008 Academy Medal by the Australian Academy of Science. [8]

Selected works

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References

  1. "Serjeantson, Susan Wyber". The Australian Women's Register. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
  2. "Professor Sue Serjeantson". The John Curtin School of Medical Research. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
  3. 1 2 3 "Serjeantson, Susan Wyber". Encyclopedia of Australian Science. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
  4. "IN BRIEF". Australian Financial Review. 14 December 1993. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
  5. "BOOKS Good words for science". The Canberra Times . 69 (21, 633). Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 9 July 1994. p. 50. Retrieved 10 January 2021 via National Library of Australia.
  6. "Past Recipients". ANZSBT. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
  7. "Professor Susan Wyber SERJEANTSON". It's An Honour. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
  8. "Past medallists". Australian Academy of Science. Retrieved 10 January 2021.

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