With the increased space and adequate block funding, there was a substantial increase in academic and general staff and PhD students. Bruce Holloway left before we moved, but all the others in the temporary laboratories moved across in November 1957. David Howes was appointed as a Research Fellow, December 1957 to April 1960; Graeme Laver, working on the biochemistry of influenza virus, Research Fellow in 1958, Fellow in 1962 and Senior Fellow in 1964; and Gwen Woodroofe, having graduated PhD, was appointed a Research Fellow in 1958 and promoted to Fellow in 1963. Two overseas scientists, Dennis Lowther and Fritz Lehmann-Grube, were appointed as Research Fellows for three year terms in 1960. Peter Cooper was appointed as a Senior Fellow in 1962 and carried out classical work on poliovirus genetics; on graduation as PhD in 1962, Kevin Lafferty was appointed as a Research Fellow, he transferred to the Department of Immunology in 1964; Alan Bellett, from England, and Ken Easterbrook, when he graduated PhD, were appointed Research Fellows in 1963; and Rob Webster and Joe Sambrook, on getting their PhDs in 1964 and 1965, respectively. In 1965, Stephen Boyden, then a Professorial Fellow in the Department of Experimental Pathology, transferred to my department because I was sympathetic to his wish to broaden his outlook from immunology to human biology. He carried out an important study of the ‘metabolism’ of Hong Kong and, in 1970, he transferred to the newly-established Department of Human Biology, after I had become Director of the School. He has remained a lifetime friend. In 1966 Nigel Dimmock, from England, was appointed Research Fellow for five years and in 1967 Adrian Gibbs, a plant virologist from England, joined the Department as a Research Fellow.

The other major change possible after moving to the new building was the possibility of bringing established scientists from overseas as Visiting Fellows for periods of a year or more. Some funds for travel costs were available from the ANU, and all departments, especially Microbiology and Physiology, profited from their presence. No fewer that 13 Visiting Fellows came to our Department for at least one year during the period 1958 to 1967, seven from the United States, two from Czechoslovakia, and one each from England, Finland and India. In addition, Alfred Gottschalk, FAA, a biochemist whom I had known from the Hall Institute, came to my department when he retired in 1958 and stayed, as an NHMRC Senior Research Fellow, for four years. He carried out important work on the neuraminidase of influenza virus.

The number of PhD students graduating also increased substantially, from one in 1956 and 1958 to three in 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963 and 1964, one in 1965, two in 1966 and one in 1967.

Back row (from left to right): Mary McClain^vf, Rob Webster^st, William Murphy^st, Tom Grace^st, John Roberts^st, Alfred Gottschalk^vf, Betty Ermacora (secretary), Frank Warburton^st, Ric Davern^vf, Stephen Fazekas^ac, Royle Hawhes^st, Allan Logie (head technician).

Front row: Ron Weir^st, Rima Greenland^vf, Brian McAuslan^st, Bill Joklik^ac, Cedric Mims^ac, Gwen Woodroofe^ac, Frank Fenner^ac, Fritz Lehmann-Grube^ac, John Cairns^ac, Ian Marshall^ac, Dennis Lowther^ac.

^t= technician, ^ac= academic staff member, ^st= PhD student., ^vf= visiting fellow