Completed in late 1952, these buildings are still in use, as offices rather than laboratories. They were quickly got into running order and I proceeded to enrol Ian Marshall as a PhD student and persuade W. K. (Bill) Joklik, whom I had supported with ANU money as a PhD student in Oxford, to join the Department—he was our first expert on the biochemistry of viruses and worked on poxviruses. Bruce Holloway, an Australian who had just got his PhD at the California Institute of Technology, came out as a Research Fellows in 1953 and John Cairns, whom I had met when we were both at Burnet's laboratory and again when I visited Entebbe, in Uganda, in 1953, was appointed as a Senior Research Fellow in 1955. Ian Marshall was appointed a Research Fellow when he graduated PhD in 1956, he and Gwen Woodroofe continued to work with me on myxomatosis. Cedric Mims, an Englishman who, like Cairns, had worked in Entebbe, joined the Department as a Research Fellow in 1956 and commenced his now classical work on the pathogenesis of infectious diseases. Fazekas continued to work on influenza virus, Holloway worked on the genetics of the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Cairns on various aspects of virus multiplication. Another very important appointment made in 1956 was Alan Logie as my Senior Technician.