Marilyn Anderson Australasian Extracellular Vesicles Conference 2020

Marilyn Anderson

Marilyn Anderson is a Professor in Biochemistry at La Trobe University. After completing a BSc Honours at The University of Melbourne and a PhD in Biochemistry at La Trobe University Marilyn Anderson spent seven years in the United States working on diabetes at the University of Miami and oncogenes at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. She returned to Australia in 1982 to join the newly established Plant Cell Biology Research Centre at the University of Melbourne and worked with Adrienne Clarke to clone genes that control pollination in plants. She joined the Department of Biochemistry at La Trobe University in 1995. Her current work is focussed on defence molecules produced by plants for protection against insect pests and fungal pathogens. Her research spans from basic work on the structure and function of these molecules, to the practical application of creating crop plants which are protected from predation and disease. This practical application is being developed within the company Hexima Limited of which Professor Anderson is a founding scientist and Chief Science Officer. Marilyn is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (2011) and the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (2010).