Person
Gething, Mary-Jane
AO
- Occupation
- Educator
Summary
Mary-Jane Gething spent twenty years carrying out research in protein chemistry and molecular biology at Cambridge and London, England, and New York and Dallas, USA. She returned to Melbourne in 1998, taking up the position of Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Melbourne.
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Chronology
- 1973 - 1975
- Career position - Researcher, Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- 1974
- Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Melbourne
- 1975 - 1982
- Career position - Researcher, Imperial Cancer Research Fund Laboratory, London, United Kingdom
- 1982 - 1985
- Career position - Researcher, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York, U.S.A.
- 1985 - 1994
- Career position - Researcher, Howard Hughes Medical Institute/Department of Biochemistry, Southwestern Medical Center, University of Texas, U.S.A.
- 1994 - 1998
- Career position - Reader, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Melbourne
- 1998 - 2005
- Career position - Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Melbourne
- 2000 - 2005
- Career position - Head, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Melbourne
- 2005 -
- Career position - Emeritus Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Melbourne
- 2023
- Award - Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for distinguished service to biochemistry and molecular biology, to tertiary education, and to the arts
Related entries
Archival resources
National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection
- Biographical cuttings on Mary Jane Gething, Cuttings Files BIOG; National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection. Details
Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Exhibition of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, First published 2003 with lists updated regulary edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details
Resources
- 'Gething, Mary-Jane', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1476919. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Professor Emeritus Mary-Jane Gething: Officer of the Order of Australia', in It's an Honour, Australian Honours and Awards Secretariat, Australian Government, Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, 2023. https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/2012599. Details
See also
- Herd, Margaret ed., Who's who in Australia 2002 (Melbourne: Crown Content, 2001), 2020 pp. Details
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Created: 13 February 2003, Last modified: 31 January 2023