| Alma Mater: | University of Sydney |
| Birth Name: | Lynette Bedford |
| Thesis Title: | Oogenesis in the chiton Sypharochiton septentriones (Mollusca, Polyplacophora) |
| Thesis Year: | 1967 |
Lynne Selwood 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.
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)". She then completed a PhD on "Oogenesis in the chiton Sypharochiton septentriones (Mollusca, Polyplacophora)" in 1967.[2] 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.[3]
Back in Australia from 1974, Selwood has teaching and research positions at Monash University and La Trobe University.[3] She has been at the University of Melbourne where, as of she is an honorary professor.[4]
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.[5] she serves as a trustee of the Society.[6]
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.[7]
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.[8] She received the Ellis Troughton Memorial Award in 2018 from the Australian Mammal Society for her lifetime of mammalian research[9] and is an honorary life member of the Society.[3]