Person

Marshall, Ian David (1922 - 2010)

Born
2 January 1922
Craigie Park, Victoria, Australia
Died
25 June 2010
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Occupation
Virologist

Summary

Ian Marshall was recognised within Australia and internationally as a pioneer in arbovirology, his research centring on the development of methodologies, the isolation and identification of new viruses, and the exploration of ecosystems. Upon graduating in 1951 he joined the team led by Frank Fenner at the John Curtin School of Medical Research (JCSMR) which was researching myxomatosis. For two years from 1959, Marshall was at the University of California, Berkeley, where he trained in field and laboratory investigations of arboviruses and collaborated in studies on the epidemiology of myxomatosis locally. On returning to Australia, Marshall established at the JCSMR an arbovirus laboratory which became one of Australia's major centres of arbovirus research. He undertook the first systematic study of arboviruses in Papua New Guinea, then applied his methodologies to studies in southeastern Australia. His research teams investigated Murray Valley encephalitis and Ross River viruses, and identified novel arboviruses including the Gan Gan and Barmah Forest viruses and a new reovirus which was named Nelson Bay. Marshall continued his research as Emeritus Fellow in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Australian National University for 12 years after retiring in 1987

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Chronology

1942 - 1945
Military service - Second World War. Lieutenant, Royal Australian Navy
1951 -
Career position - Research Assistant (later Senior Fellow, John Curtin School of Medical Research
1951
Education - Bachelor Agricultural Science (BAgSc), University of Melbourne
1956
Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Australian National University
1959 - 1961
Career position - Research Fellow, School of Hygiene and Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, California, U.S.A.
1961
Career event - Established arbovirus laboratory, John Curtin School of Medical Research
1966 - 1967
Career position - Established arbovirus laboratory, John Curtin School of Medical Research
1975 - 1976
Career position - Research Fellow, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
1987
Life event - Retired
1988 - 2000
Career position - Emeritus Fellow, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Australian National University

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Journal Articles

  • Gard, G. P. and Marshall, I. D., 'Nelson Bay virus. novel reovirus', Archiv für die gesamte Virusforschung, 4 (1973), 34-42. Details
  • Marshall, I. D., Woodroofe, G. M. and Hirsch, S., 'Viruses recovered from mosquitoes and wildlife serum collected in the Murray Valley of South-eastern Australia, February 1974, during an epidemic of encephalitis', Australian journal of experimental biology and medical science, 60 (5) (1982), 457-70, https://doi.org/10.1038/icb.1982.51. Details
  • Marshall, Ian D., Woodroofe, Gwendolyn M. and Hirsch, Sylvia, 'Viruses recovered from mosquitoes and wildlife serum collected in the Murray Valley of Southeastern Australia, February 1974, during an epidemic of encephalitis', Australian journal of experimental biology and medical science, 60 (5) (1982), 457-70, https://doi.org/10.1038/icb.1982.51. Details
  • Müllbacher, Arno, Marshall, I. D. and Ferris, Pamela, 'Classification of Barmah Forest virus as an alphavirus using cytotoxic T cell assays', Journal of general virology, 67 (2) (1986), 295-9. https://doi.org/ 10.1099/0022-1317-67-2-295. Details

Newspaper Articles

  • Marshall, Angela and Gard, Geoff, 'Unfulfilled farmer found a rewarding life in science: Ian Marshall, born January 2, 1922; died June 25, 2010', Canberra times (2010). Details

Resources

See also

  • Fenner, Frank ed., History of Microbiology in Australia (Melbourne: Australian Society for Microbiology, 1990), 624 pp. Details
  • Fenner, Frank, Nature, Nurture and Chance: the Lives of Frank and Charles Fenner (Canberra: ANU Press, 2006), 356 pp, http://doi.org/10.22459/NNC.07.2006. Details
  • Nikos Vasilakis, Nikos [and others], 'Exploiting the legacy of the arbovirus hunters', Viruses 11(471):1-38-, 11 (471) (2019), 1-38. https://doi.org/doi:10.3390/v11050471. Details

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