This week UQ is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the establishment of a Department of Microbiology, with an alumni dinner to be addressed by an eminent scientist working on polio a remerging disease. <\/p>\n
Lectures in bacteriology were introduced to the UQ medical course in the late 1930s, the time of a polio epidemic in Australia. <\/p>\n
The post-war years saw the evolution of teaching and research from clinical bacteriology to the wider discipline of microbiology. <\/p>\n
Victor Skerman was appointed in 1950 and became the foundation professor of microbiology in 1962, heading the new Department of Microbiology. <\/p>\n
The Department prospered over succeeding years, eventually moving from the University's Herston campus to a purpose-built building at St Lucia in 1972. <\/p>\n
The building was renamed the Skerman Building in 1988, in honour of the man who led the departments of bacteriology and microbiology for 32 years. <\/p>\n
Today, microbiology at UQ continues to prosper as part of the School of Chemistry & Molecular Biosciences. <\/p>\n
Professor Ralph Tripp of the University of Georgia, USA, will present the annual Skerman Lecture on 5 July at Hillstone St Lucia. <\/p>\n
He will speak on the development of enhanced vaccine cell lines for the eradication of poliovirus and other vaccine preventable diseases. <\/p>\n
Despite a cessation of poliomyelitis in most areas of the world, outbreaks continue in nations where polio is endemic and in countries previously free of polio. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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