2020
Nicole Morton
Pia Lentini
Australian Bats
(Applied Ecology)
Jenny Cuxson
The Unseen World
(Virology)
Sally Haldyz
Bugs and Water Quality
(Freshwater Ecology)
Peter Trusler
The Art of Science
(Paleoillustration)
Mar
May
Corrie Williams
Taphonomy: CSI circa 20000BC
(Paleontology)
Up Close and Personal with an Aerosonde Drone
(Engineering)
Science Club
Schedule of Superstar Scientists - join us at the LabRats Lair!
Pierre Asselin
Sustainable Buildings: Melbourne's Council House 2
(Engineering)
Rebecca Yee
Recycling Fish-n-Chips: Converting Waste Oil Into Biodiesel
(Chemical Engineering)
Whodunnit
(Forensic Science)
Jul
Team Swinburne SAE
Vroom! Vroom!: Mighty Machines
(Eingineering, Sustainability, Business)
Bob Wong & Marcus Michelangeli
Kent Wootton
Chocolate at the Synchrotron
(Synchrotron Science)
James Pearson
Synchrotron Science
Apr
Travels of a Bedu:
Inspiring Generations of Thinkers
David Barnes
Big Data and Visualisation
(Astronomy and
Neuroscience)
Steven Siems
The Rain Maker: Cloud Seeding
(GeoEngineering)
Ros Gleadow
Cyanide and Cassava
(Botany)
2011
2013
LabRats
Observing the Universe (Astrophysics)
Sam Thiele
Volcano CSI
(Volcanology)
Linden Ashcroft
Angry Atmosphere
(Climate Studies)
Champions of Curiosity
They make our adventures possible
Tessa Charles
Schedule of Superstar Scientists who had brought us along on all sorts of adventures in past years
Circuits, Coding, & Arduino Boards
(Engineering)
Alison Funston
Smaller Than Nano
(Nano-Chemistry)
Zoran & Luther Vasic
Let there be Light!
Synchrotron Science
(Physics)
Patricia Vickers-Rich The Ediacaran World (Paleontology)
Sep
Aug
Sep
Sir David Attenborough
Two Men and A Toad: The Evolution of Australian Cane Toads
(Zoology)
Gemma Lamp & Rosa Sola-Molina
The Amazing Brain
(Neuroimaging -Psychophysics)
Rob Hayes
2015
Aug
Zara Dennis
The Flying Geophysicist
(Geology)
Ashley Rozario
Peeping Into Cells With Super-resolution Imaging
(Chemistry)
Duncan Galloway
Neutron Stars
(Astrophysics)
Dec
Jasmina Lazendig-Galloway
Black Holes
(Astrophysics)
Katherine Mack
Dark Matter
(Astrophysics)
Yulia Shuvalova
A 500 Million Years Long Adventure
(Geology/Paleontology)
Patrick Baker
Trees and Climate Change
(Forest Ecology)
Jul
2018
Adrian Dyer
Life Through the Eyes of Bees
(Vision Science)
What sets the PrimeSCI!-CETEC LabRats science club apart is our long-standing relationship with researchers who act as scientist mentors.
Researchers are invited for their research topic, scientific passion, and desire to communicate with younger minds.
We show that scientists come in all shapes and sizes, genders and backgrounds. Meeting real scientists working in vastly different areas of science
provide tangible role models for the LabRats with their varied interests.
If you are THAT researcher and would like to participate as our Superstar Scientist, we would love to hear from you. Please contact Lydia Low at lydia.low@monash.edu
Katie Mack
Mysterious Universe
(Cosmology)
Back in the Belly of the Synchrotron
(Synchrotron Science)
Month
2012
Alison Funston
Almost Invisible
(Nano-Chemistry)
David Cheng
Graphene: The Next Big Thing
(Materials Engineering)
Kent Wootton
The Pharlap Mystery
(Synchrotron Science)
Victoria Haritos
Sugars, Obese Yeast and Biofuels
(Chemical Engineering)
Greg Holland
Climate Change
(Atmospheric Research)
Patricia Vickers-Rich
Linda McIver
Computing
(Computer Science)
2019
Oct
May
Marshmallow Madness:
LabRats Engineering
Challenge
Wai-Ho Li
Aye, Aye, Bionic Eye
(Engineering)
Harry Wassiti
The Great Solar Battery Challenge
OzGRAV & Rebecca Alllen
The Universe and Gravitational Waves
(Astrophysics)
Patricia Vickers-Rich
Great Crises in the History of Life
(Geology)
Nov
Darryl Holland
Water Quality and Algal Blooms
(Water Studies)
Nicholas Price
Bionic Vision
(Neuroscience)
Andreas Fouras
X-Ray Imaging
(Engineering)
Elizabeth Paratz
Fixing a Broken Heart
(Cardiology)
Mar
Dec
Jim Driscoll
Julie Boyce
Bang, Crash, Boom!
(Volcanology and Geology)
2016
David Hocking
Under the Sea
(Marine Ecology)
Pierre Asselin
Making Sustainability Count
(Engineering)
Kent Wootton
A Million Times Brighter Than The Sun
(Synchrotron Science)
Oct
Jonathan de Booy
Synchrotron Science and Emission Spectra
Pierre Asselin
Physics in Motion
(Engineering)
Elizabeth Finkel
The Story Behind the Science
(Science Journalism)
Tim Moss
Life in the Womb
(Pre-Natal Science)
Michael Brown
Andrew Glenk
Tom Rich
Becoming a Paleotologist
(Paleontology)
2017
Apr
Plastic Soup:
Plastics In the Port Philip Bay
David Reser
The Hearing Brain
(Neuroscience)
Kevin Chan
Everybody Dance Now!
(Robotics)
Month
Stuart Batten
Crystal Chemistry
(Chemistry)
Jacqui Towns
Who's Who in Medical Science?
(Healthcare)
Sam Towns
Fighting Cancer with Machines
(Medical Physics)
Fighting Cancer in the Lab: Synthetic Biology and Cancer Vaccines
(Virology)
Pierre Asselin
Jun
Allie Ford
Communicating with Aliens
(Astrobiology)
Jun
Alison Every
Stomachaches and H. pylori
(Mucosal Immunology)
Shageeta Jhanjee
Purely Numbers
(Mathematics)
Richard Reina
How Many Fishes in the Deep Blue Sea?
(Marine Biology)
Nov
Allie Ford
Knock Knock, Who's Out There?
(Astrobiology)
Adrian Dyer
Life Through the Eyes of Bees
(Vision Science)
Dear Superstar Scientist,
We are looking for an adventure in your area of research, and to learn from you about the exciting happenings in your field. We also really want to know how you got to where you are today.
Show us how we can help our world, find the cure for cancer, travel to the edge of the Universe, we want to learn from you.
Please join us at the Australian Synchrotron on a Saturday morning and we'll make sure Lydia and Gemma provide you a good cuppa coffee.
With love from the LabRats Lair,
50 tails.
LabRats Investigate The Great Outdoors
Greg Holland
Extreme Weather & Climate
(Climate Science)
2014
Zoran Vasic
Synchrotron Science
(Physics)