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Who Owns CRISPR-Cas9? Nobel Prize 2020 Fuels Dispute chemistrychemistry December 2020–February 2021 in Australia Who owns CRISPR-Cas9? Nobel Prize 2020 fuels dispute chemaust.raci.org.au • Scientific posters: the bigger picture • RACI National Awards winners • Science for and in diplomacy www.rowe.com.au Online 24 hours 7 days a week, by phone or face to face, we give you the choice. INSTRUMENTS - CONSUMABLES - CHEMICALS - SERVICE & REPAIRS A 100% Australian owned company, supplying scientific laboratories since 1987. South Australia & NT Queensland Victoria & Tasmania New South Wales Western Australia Ph: (08) 8186 0523 Ph: (07) 3376 9411 Ph: (03) 9701 7077 Ph: (02) 9603 1205 Ph: (08) 9302 1911 ISO 9001:2015 LIC 10372 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] SAI Global REF535 X:\MARKETING\ADVERTISING\CHEMISTRY IN AUSTRALIA December 2020–February 2021 38 cover story Who owns CRISPR-Cas9? Nobel Prize in Chemistry stokes patent dispute 14 The ongoing intellectual property ownership dispute over the CRISPR-Cas9 technology has recently been refuelled by the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020. iStockphoto/Bill Oxford 18 #betterposter 4 From the President There’s a movement for better posters at science conferences. But are they 5 Your say really better? And how does poster push relate to the ongoing campaign for news & research open science? 6 News 7 On the market 8 Research 12 Education research members 22 2020 National Awards winners 18 25 RACI news 26 New Fellows 27 Obituaries views & reviews 30 Books 33 Science↔society 34 Literature & learning 36 Technology & innovation 38 Science for fun 40 Grapevine 41 Letter from Melbourne 42 Cryptic chemistry 42 Events chemaust.raci.org.au from the raci From the President This is my first President’s column and I would like to start by ... building a dynamic and thanking Dr Vicki Gardner for her excellent efforts leading the Institute over the past two years. There are two newly elected enthusiastic cohort of members on the Board, so I welcome the new President Elect, Professor Pall Thordarson, and the new Treasurer, Dr Lidia younger members remains a Matesic. I thank the outgoing Treasurer, Dr Matt Sykes, who has key objective to keep the served the RACI so very well for a number of years, and Board member Ms Lisa Stevens for her contributions. The new Board RACI a vibrant and active appointments arise from elections from the membership and so organisation. I also thank the members for their engagement with this electoral process. Elections have definitely been in the news element. Our youngest member is just 18 years old. To balance recently, but I am sure that in the case of the RACI we will see this, we have two members who are over 100! Our longest an effective and efficient transfer of powers, and the smooth serving member is 98 and joined in 1939! We can only marvel running of the RACI will continue through the transition. when thinking of the changes to the science and applications of Vicki is the second female President in the RACI’s more than chemistry (and to the RACI) they have experienced over those 100-year history and under her stewardship the RACI is a more more than 80 years. inclusive and equitable organisation, with transparent processes 2020’s pandemic and political uncertainties make our RACI a and more open governance. With Vicki as a role model, future different entity from that which existed for much of its more RACI presidents, boards, committees and elected officials will than 100 years of existence. Most COVID-19 induced changes continue to reflect our membership diversity and the range of have been accepted with limited complaint and many have activities where chemists play key roles. The biggest cohort been embraced as being of long-term benefit. This is especially (about 40%) of RACI members are in academia and CSIRO; true for chemistry education, which now has an increased however, our members pursue chemistry activities in many emphasis on online learning. Some of our new graduate forms and in many locations. More than half our members come members will not have been exposed to typical face-to-face from Victoria and New South Wales, but RACI members exercise teaching and will have different levels of hands-on practical their discipline skills in all states and in the remotest locations skills training. The Board is aware of these challenges and has of the country. Currently, about 30% of members are female. initiated a process of certification for alternative teaching Significantly, this increases to more than 40% for members approaches that some institutions have already put in place and under 45 years of age and is closer to 50% for the under-35 age we hope this will be of value to our student and new graduate bracket. I take this as a positive sign that the RACI of the members. future will reflect an even gender balance through all elements Steven Bottle FRACI CChem ([email protected]) is RACI of its structure and activities. President. The future is an important focus for the RACI. Currently, about 40% of our total membership base is under 45, and building a dynamic and enthusiastic cohort of younger members remains a key objective to keep the RACI a vibrant and active organisation. One of the advantages of membership for new chemistry professionals is access to established networks and experienced members. 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Further details on the website [email protected] PRODUCTION EDITOR BOOK REVIEWS (chemaust.raci.org.au). Catherine Greenwood Damien Blackwell PRESIDENT ISSN 0314-4240 e-ISSN 1839-2539 [email protected] [email protected] Steven Bottle 4 | Chemistry in Australia December 2020–February 2021 your say Chemical oxymoron copy everybody gets a tangible ‘gift’ and regular reminder of the I don’t receive much in the post these days. Even the bills come RACI. They will probably at least leaf through it. electronically. But one day I received two items – the latest issue During my career, I nominated hundreds of chemistry students of Chemistry in Australia and a brochure from a well-known wine for membership, who were thrilled when they received their retailer, whose name I shan’t disclose. monthly magazine, recognising their acceptance as neo- The brochure described a white wine on offer as ‘having a professionals. Now they will get very little indeed, similarly for backbone of fine, chalky acid’. If ever there was a chemical members. No hard copy means no real contact means the question oxymoron, this is it. First we have chalk, known to chemists as of why belong? Were I not an HLM, I would certainly be exploring calcium carbonate (CaCO3), which is alkaline. Then we have this question because the answer, for me, is not obvious. (grape) acid, principally L-(+)-tartaric acid. I tried, via the RACI website, to find out exactly what Put them together in solution and what happens? Carbon Chemistry in Australia costs. I could not find out. Even HLMs dioxide is evolved and calcium tartrate is formed, which may cannot penetrate the arcane mysteries of the RACI Board. I was precipitate over time. also unable to hunt down any minutes from Board meetings. Although it is likely that an early German chemist would have Maybe my fault? Maybe not. From the published arguments for tasted calcium tartrate when first isolated, and recorded its taste, pruning Chemistry in Australia (which, for me, seemingly lack as was the custom, I don’t have ready access to Beilstein* these logic, always assuming the Board’s long-term aim is to remain in days to discover the chemist’s description of the taste. existence), I can only shake my head and wonder who is actually But it is unlikely to have been kalkhaltige Saüre (chalky acid)! running the show and what their aims are. Another reference, International Oenological Codex (2015), R.J. Casey FRACI CChem describes calcium L-(+)-tartrate as tasteless. Incidentally, winemakers go to great lengths to remove L-(+)- tartaric acid and its salts from wine, especially white wine, by a Timor-Leste Chemical Society update process called cold stabilisation, to avoid later crystallisation in Timor-Leste has had only 30 cases of COVID-19, no deaths and no the bottle, which might offend consumers. active cases for a few months. This meant that the 70 members of Peter G. Lehman FRACI CChem the Timor-Leste Chemical Society (TLCS) were able to meet in Dili * Beilstein Handbook of Organic Chemistry (from 1881) on 10 October for their Second National Congress. They elected their new Board with Professor Samuel Venancio Quarterly magazine: for … de Sousa Freitas re-elected President. Its members are playing a I endorse the decision to make Chemistry in Australia a quarterly key role in the economic and social development of Timor-Leste.
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