Speakers

Plenary Speakers for the symposium will be:

Professor Benjamin Schulz
Title: Better Beers through Mass Spectrometry
I am Professor in Biochemistry in the School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences at The University of Queensland, with research interests in diverse applications of molecular systems biology in fundamental protein biochemistry, viral glycobiology, and fermented beverages. I graduated with a degree in Chemical Engineering and Science from The University of Queensland, after which I joined Proteome Systems, an Australian biotechnology company. I moved to the ETH Zurich in Switzerland for my doctoral studies, and then returned to the School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences as a post-doctoral research fellow, and now teaching and research academic.

Dr Leisa-Maree Toms
Title: Human biomonitoring in Australia – assessment of environmental pollutants
Dr Leisa-Maree Toms is a researcher and senior lecturer in the School of Public Health and Social Work at Queensland University of Tchenology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia. Leisa-Maree has a PhD from the Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences (formerly the National Research Centre for Environmental Toxicology), The University of Queensland and specialises in the study of sources and exposure pathways of environmental pollutants, such as persistant organic pollutants (POPs) in human and environmental matrices.  She is especially interested in the temporal trends of human body burdens of flame retardants and per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) since regulation to decrease exposure.  She is part of a team of researchers who have been carrying out human biomonitoring of POPs in Australia since 2002.