Japan's first astronaut and distinguished scientist, Dr Mamoru Mohri, met up with Professor Barry Marshall while he was in Perth for an International Science Centres conference.

The pair toured the Schools of Human Movement & Exercise Science and Biomedical, Biomolecular & Chemical Sciences and also Physics, where they talked with Prof Mike Tobar and Dr John Hartnett about the Sapphire Clock Ensemble that the School is Building for the European Space Agencies Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space Mission.