Centre Capabilities

Centre for Animal Science 

Improving productivity of systems through minimising losses due to pests and diseases.

CAPABILITY LEADER
Professor Tim Mahony
Research to improve productivity, profitability and sustainability of tropical and sub-tropical livestock production systems.

CAPABILITY LEADER
Professor Ben Hayes
Research to address the priority areas in animal welfare in livestock industries.

CAPABILITY LEADER
Professor Alan Tilbrook

Centre for Crop Science 

Integrated pre-breeding research programs delivering advanced lines to industry based on advanced genetics, phenotyping, bioinformatics, trait physiology and modelling

CAPABILITY LEADER
Professor David Jordan
Integrating crop science from the molecular to whole plant levels to enhance food production in the face of climate change

CAPABILITY LEADER
Professor Andrew Borrell
Integrating field experimentation, modelling tools, and socioeconomic data, to generate new science that supports decision-making for economic, environmental, and social outcomes

CAPABILITY LEADER
Professor Daniel Rodriguez

Centre for Horticultural Science

Our focus is improving the productivity and quality of horticultural crops through application of genetics and genomics in selection and breeding, integrated with orchard agronomy.

CAPABILITY LEADER
Professor Bruce Topp
We undertake research in detection and identification of diseases in tropical horticulture, and develop integrated disease management practices to reduce crop losses, improve productivity and ensure product quality.

CAPABILITY LEADER
Professor André Drenth
We deliver innovative cross–disciplinary platform technologies to impact the productivity, environmental sustainability and economic growth of the horticulture sector.

CAPABILITY LEADER
Professor Neena Mitter

Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences

How to identify the right combinations of raw materials and processing to deliver consumer-preferred foods

CAPABILITY LEADER
TBA
Maximising the intrinsic nutritional properties of agricultural products in foods and ingredients

CAPABILITY LEADER
Dr Tim O'Hare
Identifying and validating opportunities for elite products from foods and ingredients that can only have come from Australia

CAPABILITY LEADER
Professor Yasmina Sultanbawa

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