Lynne Selwood

AO
Born
Lynette Bedford
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Sydney
ThesisOogenesis in the chiton Sypharochiton septentriones (Mollusca, Polyplacophora) (1967)

Lynne Selwood AO FRSV (née Bedford)[1] is an Australian reproductive biologist whose work focuses on marsupials. In 2010, she began a three-year term as the first woman president of the Royal Society of Victoria.

Education and career

Selwood was educated at the University of Sydney, graduating with a BSc in 1960 and an MSc in 1963 for her thesis "Histological and cytochemical studies on development in Bembicium nanum (Lamarck) (Gastropoda Littorinidae)".[2] She then completed a PhD on "Oogenesis in the chiton Sypharochiton septentriones (Mollusca, Polyplacophora)" in 1967.[3][4] She worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of New South Wales from 1967 to 1970 before moving to London from 1972 to 1974.[5]

Back in Australia from 1974, Selwood has teaching and research positions at Monash University and La Trobe University.[5] She has been at the University of Melbourne where, as of 2022 she is an honorary professor.[6]

Selwood was a member of the Council of the Royal Society of Victoria and, in 2010, was the first woman to be elected president since its inauguration in 1854.[7] As of 2022 she serves as a trustee of the Society.[8]

Annoyed that possums were eating her garden, Selwood developed a spray which, with assistance from the University of Melbourne, was patented and commercialised and is produced and sold as Yates Possum Repellent Spray.[9]

Honours and recognition

Selwood was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in the 2017 Queen's Birthday Honours. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Victoria in 2018.[10] She received the Ellis Troughton Memorial Award in 2018 from the Australian Mammal Society for her lifetime of mammalian research[11] and is an honorary life member of the Society.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Selwood, Lynne (May 1968). "Interrelationships between developing oocytes and ovarian tissues in the chitonSypharochiton septentriones (ashby) (Mollusca, Polyplacophora)". Journal of Morphology. 125 (1): 71–103. doi:10.1002/jmor.1051250105. ISSN 0362-2525. PMID 4875537. S2CID 42102554.
  2. ↑ Bedford, Lynette (1963), Histological and cytochemical studies on development in Bembecium Nanum (Lamarck) (Gastropoda Littorinidae), retrieved 13 December 2022
  3. ↑ Bedford, Lynette (1967), Oogenesis in the chiton Sypharochiton septentriones (Mollusca, Polyplacophora), retrieved 13 December 2022
  4. ↑ "University of Sydney community honoured in Queen's Birthday list". The University of Sydney. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 13 December 2022.
  5. 1 2 3 "Lynne Selwood". Society for Reproductive Biology. Retrieved 13 December 2022.
  6. ↑ "Prof Lynne Selwood". findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au. Retrieved 13 December 2022.
  7. ↑ "Presidents of the Royal Society of Victoria". The Royal Society of Victoria. Retrieved 13 December 2022.
  8. ↑ "Lynne Selwood – Trustee & Past President". The Royal Society of Victoria. Retrieved 13 December 2022.
  9. ↑ Holland, Daryl (30 August 2019). "The science that stops possums eating your garden". University of Melbourne. Retrieved 16 December 2022.
  10. ↑ "Elected Fellows of the Royal Society of Victoria". The Royal Society of Victoria. Retrieved 13 December 2022.
  11. ↑ "Ellis Troughton Memorial Award | The Australian Mammal Society Inc". The Australian Mammal Society Inc. Retrieved 13 December 2022.
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