Science Seminars

Dr Jiahua Shi, FaBA Senior Research Fellow at Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences, QAAFI, will present a seminar on "Waste to taste: Bioprocessing surplus produce and industry by-products into premium ingredients and products"

Professor Catherine Propper from Northern Arizona University will present "From Cells to Ecosystems: Understanding Environmental Contamination"

Dr Shashi Goonetilleke will present "Curation of Multi-Source Genotypic and Phenotypic Data for Global Genomic Prediction in Tree Crops"

Professor Jagadish Krishna will present an overview on transforming grain sorghum’s yield potential through trait-based ideotype breeding

Dr April Hastwell will present an overview on Enhancing nodulation in legumes through targeted editing of regulatory peptides

Carla Fabiola López Gómez will present an overview on Sorghum in scope: high protein, gene editing and nitrogen dynamics.

Prof Min-Suk Song will present an overview on Novel Capless Self-Amplifying RNA Platform and its Applications

Dr Raisa Rudge will present an overview on Future foods using Ancient Fermentation Techniques: Fermentation, sensory and beyond.

QAAFI PhD Candidate, Pragya Dhakal Poudel, will present an overview on Genetic and genomic approaches to vigour management in macadamia.

Dr Bradley Campbell from QAAFI’s Centre for Crop Science, ​will present a QAAFI Science Seminar

Professor Robert Henry from QAAFI’s Centre for Crop Science, ​will present a QAAFI Science Seminar

Professor Eugeni Roura from QAAFI’s Centre for Animal Science, ​will present a QAAFI Science Seminar

Professor Andrew Borrell from QAAFI’s Centre for Crop Science, ​will present a QAAFI Science Seminar

Professor Neena Mitter, Centre Director of Centre for Horticultural Science from UQ's Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, ​will present a QAAFI Science Seminar

Dr Alberto Baldelli from UQ's Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, ​will present a QAAFI Science Seminar

Professor Michael Bell from UQ's School of Agriculture and Food Sustainability, ​will present a QAAFI Science Seminar

Shanmugam Alagappan from QAAFI’s Centre for Nutrition and Food Science, ​will present a QAAFI Science Seminar

Prof Bruce Topp from QAAFI’s Centre for Horticultural Science, ​will present a QAAFI Science Seminar

Dr Bradley Campbell from QAAFI’s Centre for Horticultural Science, ​will present a QAAFI Science Seminar

Prof Daniel Rodriguez from QAAFI’s Centre for Crop Science, ​will present a QAAFI Science Seminar

PhD Candidate Rebecca Degnan will present a seminar on Harnessing dsRNA for myrtle rust control and biological insight

QAAFI Institute Director, Prof Matthew Morell, will be kicking off 2024 with our first science seminar of the year.

QAAFI Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dr Sukirtha Srivarathan, will present a seminar on Australian indigenous edible halophytes – potential sources of functional ingredients

QAAFI PhD Candidate, Michel Beya, will present an overview on Kakadu plum fruit bioactivity against spoilage microorganisms and oxidative reactions in refrigerated raw beef patties

Honorary Professor Michael Rychlik will present a seminar on Water soluble vitamins - new insights from novel analytical methods

QAAFI Research Fellow, Dr Yan Zhao, will present an overview on Remote sensing applications for Australian Cropping systems

Veterinarian and PhD candidate, Sarah Babington, will present 'Identifying promising biomarkers of experiential state in sheep'

QAAFI Senior Research Officer, Dr Arun Kumar, will present an overview on the Role of Phytase enzyme in Monogastric Nutrition

Dr Patrick Mason from QAAFI’s Centre for Crop Science, ​will present a QAAFI Science Seminar

Dr Glen Fox, Anheuser-Busch Endowed Professor of Malting and Brewing Sciences ​will present a QAAFI Science Seminar

Dr Xinle Tan from QAAFI’s Centre for Animal Science ​will present a QAAFI Science Seminar

Dr Chris Brosnan from QAAFI’s Centre for Horticultural Science, ​will present a QAAFI Science Seminar

Mrs Sera Jacob from QAAFI’s Centre for Nutrition and Food Science, ​will present a QAAFI Science Seminar

Denise Bond from the Macadamia Conservation Trust, ​will present a QAAFI Science Seminar

Prof Philippe Schmitt-Kopplin ​will present a QAAFI Science Seminar

Jessica Cartwright from QAAFI’s Centre for Nutrition and Food Science, ​will present a QAAFI Science Seminar

Mrs Shanice Van Haeften from QAAFI’s Centre for Crop Science, ​will present a QAAFI Science Seminar

Dr Chris Downs from the Food and Beverage Accelerator, ​will present a QAAFI Science Seminar

Dr Karl E Robinson from QAAFI’s Centre for Horticultural Science, ​will present a QAAFI Science Seminar

Dr Kieren McCosker from QAAFI’s Centre for Animal Science, ​will present a QAAFI Science Seminar

Ms Upuli Nakandala from QAAFI’s Centre for Crop Science, ​will present a QAAFI Science Seminar

Dr Hannah Siddle from QAAFI’s Centre for Animal Science, ​will present a QAAFI Science Seminar

Dr Joe Eyre from QAAFI’s Centre for Crop Science, ​will present a QAAFI Science Seminar

Dr Kieren McCosker will present a science seminar on the effect of shade on cow behaviour and calf survival on the Barkly Tableland, Northern Territory.

Lennard Ehrig and Sven Weber will present a science seminar on Phenomic Selection: predicting quantitative traits in canola with NIRSprofiles

Dr Jayeni Hiti Bandaralage will deliver a science seminar on 'Tissue culture - An essential toolkit for crop improvement and productivity'

Dr Melanie Hess will present a science seminar on incorporating microbiomes for prediction of methane in New Zealand sheep

Dr Bradley Campbell will conduct a science seminar on evaluating salinity tolerance in diverse taro (colocasia) wild relatives to enhance food security in the pacific islands

Dr Liqi Han will present his seminar Digital Twins for Optimisation of Orchard Spray Practices on Tuesday 11 October 2022 between 12:00 – 1:00pm

UQ Dr Heather Shewan will present a seminar "Soft particles in our food: instrumental measurement and sensory perception" on Tuesday 4 October

AgTrade Group Veterinarian Dr Bronte Sutton and UQ Research Fellow Prof Tim Mahony will present a seminar about Lumpy Skin Disease from an Australian industry perspective and research update.

Ms Rimjhim Agarwal will present a seminar about Why Orange Capsicums need to be in your shopping cart

Prof Mike Gidley will give a science seminar on nutrition and food sciences futures

Dr Ali Raza will give a Science Seminar on identification of super cattle with ectoparasite resistance

Professor Andrew Borrell will give a science seminar on Cereal blueprints for a water-limited world

Dr Anne Sawyer from QAAFI’s Centre for Horticultural Science ​will present a QAAFI Science Seminar

Dr Olivia Wright will deliver a Science Seminar on Nourishing Nutrient Density

Prof Alison Van Eenennaam from University of California Davis will present a seminar Synergistic power of genomic selection and gene editing to drive genetic improvement of cattle

Prof. Tuba Esatbeyoglu will present a science seminar

Dr Inigo Auzmendi will give a science seminar on understanding tree and fruit growth through modelling

Dr Karen Eyre will give a Science Seminar on the natural abundance of nitrogen isotopes to identify more efficient cows in northern Australia

Dr Tania Humphrey from World Coffee Research (WCR) will present a seminar on the launch of a global coffee breeding network

Dr Shahram Niknafs will present on Gut functionality within chickens. Gut functionality is complex and involves many factors. This seminar will touch on some important aspects of gut function across different stages of a chickens’ life.

Professor Michael Udvardi from QAAFI’s Centre for Crop Science ​will present a QAAFI Science Seminar

Jane Ray from QAAFI's Centre for Horticultural Science ​will present a QAAFI Science Seminar

Dr SANDRA Olarte Mantilla from QAAFI's Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences ​will present a QAAFI Science Seminar

Dr Donald Gardiner from QAAFI’s Centre for Horticultural Science ​will present a QAAFI Science Seminar

Dr Dongxue Zhao from QAAFI’s Centre for Crop Science ​will present a QAAFI Science Seminar

Professor Mark Turner from QAAFI’s Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences ​will present a QAAFI Science Seminar

Professor Mary Fletcher from QAAFI’s Centre for Animal Science ​will present a QAAFI Science Seminar

QAAFI's APBC students present the potential value of their research for the industry in advance of the upcoming Australiasian Plant Breeding Conference.

Dr Olumide Jeff-Ego from QAAFI’s Centre for Horticultural Science ​will present a QAAFI Science Seminar

Prof Damian Hine from The Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, ​will present a QAAFI Science Seminar

Dr Alistair McTaggart from QAAFI’s Centre for Horticultural Science, ​will present a QAAFI Science Seminar

Wei Hu from QAAFI’s Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences, ​will present a QAAFI Science Seminar

Melissa Wooderson from QAAFI’s Centre for Animal Science, ​will present a QAAFI Science Seminar

Dr Emma Mace from QAAFI’s Centre for Crop Science, ​will present a QAAFI Science Seminar

Dr Mobashwer Alam from QAAFI’s Centre for Horticultural Science, ​will present a QAAFI Science Seminar

Professor Matthew Morell, Institute Director of QAAFI will present a QAAFI Science Seminar titled 'Agrifood and the Bioeconomy in a rapidly changing world'.

Centre Director Professor Ben Hayes from QAAFI's Centre for Animal Science will present a QAAFI Science Seminar.

Dr Christopher Lambrides from UQ's School of Agriculture and Food Sciences will present a QAAFI Science Seminar.

Prof Bob Gilbert from QAAFI’s Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences, ​will present a QAAFI Science Seminar

Dr Alistair McTaggart from QAAFI’s Centre for Horticultural Science, ​will present a QAAFI Science Seminar

Prof Timothy Mahony from QAAFI’s Centre for Animal Science, ​will present a QAAFI Science Seminar

Dr Anthony van Herwaarden, Head of Science and Strategy at Queensland Futures Institute and Casual Research Scientist at Centre of Horticultural Science, ​will present a QAAFI Science Seminar

Dr Peter Crisp, from UQ’s School of Agriculture and Food Sciences, ​will present a QAAFI Science Seminar

Director of CIMMYT Global Wheat Program, Alison Bentley, will present a Science Seminar.

Dr Lida Omaleki from QAAFI's Centre for Animal Science will present a QAAFI Science Seminar.

Dr Karen Massel from QAAFI's Centre for Crop Science will present a QAAFI Science Seminar.

Dr Bernadine Flanagan from QAAFI's Centre for Nutrition and Food Science will present a QAAFI Science Seminar.

Dr Jack Christopher from QAAFI's Centre for Crop Science will present a QAAFI Science Seminar.

Three members of the avocado pathology team from QAAFI's Centre for Horticultural Science​ will present a QAAFI Science Seminar.

Professor Ala Tabor from QAAFI's Centre for Animal Science will present a QAAFI Science Seminar.

Associate Professor Jim Hanan from QAAFI's Centre for Horticultural Science will present a QAAFI Science Seminar.

Dr Maximiliano Müller from QAAFI's Centre for Food & Nutrition Sciences will present a QAAFI Science Seminar.

Professor Matthew Morell, Institute Director of QAAFI will present a QAAFI Science Seminar titled 'Reflections from Rubisco to Rubicons'.

Araz Solman a plant pathologist at the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries based at the Hermitage Research Facility will present a QAAFI Science Seminar.

Professor Daniel Rodriguez from QAAFI's Centre for Crop Science will present a QAAFI Science Seminar.

Dr Alice Hayward from QAAFI's Centre for Horticultural Science will present a QAAFI Science Seminar.

Dr Marta Navarro from QAAFI's Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences will present a QAAFI Science Seminar.

Dr Katie O’Connor, strawberry breeder at the Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries will present a QAAFI Science Seminar.

Apurba Ray from QAAFI's Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences will present a QAAFI Science Seminar.

Dr Geoffry Fordyce will present a QAAFI Science Seminar titled "Test tubes to farming practice".

Professor Scott Chapman will present a QAAFI Science Seminar titled "Adventures in engaging data science to address agricultural challenges".

Dr Jill Fernandes will present a QAAFI Science Seminar titled "Assessing animal experiences: A transdisciplinary challenge".

Hear from QAAFI Animal Science PhD students discuss the potential value of their research for the industry.

Dr Roy Costilla Monteagudo, will present a seminar titled 'Increasing milk production of smallholder dairy farms in India using genomic selection'.

Dr Alex Wu, will present a seminar titled 'Stimulating crop improvement with plant/crop models'.

QAAFI PhD Candidate, Selina Fyfe, will present an overview on the native Australian green plum, fruit of Buchanania obovata.

Professor Anna Koltunow will present a science seminar titled 'Harnessing asexual seed formation to save hybrid seed, and fix complex traits in sorghum'.

Associate Professor Andrew Geering will present a science seminar titled 'Preserving the Aussie lifestyle through research on turf'.

Dr Natasha Hungerford will present a science seminar titled 'Stingless bee honey - a novel source of the beneficial disaccharide trehalulose'.

Dr Edward Narayan, Animal Scientist with QAAFI will present a seminar titled 'Tracking stress remotely via wool cortisol and SMART tags: shearing early in pregnancy reduces stress and improves productivity of Merino sheep'.

Professor Christine Beveridge, will present a seminar titled 'The ARC CoE for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture'. The ARC CoE for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture will make significant advances in the emerging fields of evolutionary systems biology (how plants work and evolve) and predictive analytics (mathematics) to deliver novel strategies for improving ecosystem management, crop resilience and yield.

Dr Elizabeth Ross is a research fellow with the Centre for Animal Science at QAAFI. Dr Ross will present a science seminar 'Genomic predictions using data from the sheep microbiome', based on a recently published article in the Journal of Animal Science.

Associate Professor Daniel Cozzolino is a food chemist and leader in food traceability linked to provenance. Daniel will present a seminar linked to a recently published research paper 'Authentication, provenance and traceability in fish and seafood by means of vibrational spectroscopy'.

This workshop will examine the key features of the new Queensland biodiscovery law and the impact it might have for researchers, scientists, plant breeders, and Indigenous Peoples.

The supply of smashed ‘avo’ is secure for generations after world-first research cryopreserved the tips of avocado shoots and then revived them to create healthy plants. QAAFI PhD student Chris O’Brien will present an update on his PhD research titled 'Cryopreservation of avocado shoot tips'. 

Dr Samir Alahmad will present a research update about his GRDC funded durum wheat roots project. This research explores the potential to improve durum wheat yield by combining key genes for above- and below-ground physiological traits.

Dr Millicent Smith will present a seminar titled 'Understanding the physiological responses of pulses to abiotic stress: lessons learned and new steps forward'.

QAAFI Institute Director, Professor Robert Henry, will present a seminar titled "Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change: Exploring the genetic options".

Warren Bach from Oxford Nanopore Technologies will present a seminar titled "Through the Nanopore – Latest Developments, Applications, and Directions".

Daniela Bustos-Korts from Wageningen University will present a seminar titled 'Opportunities from combining statistical and crop growth models to predict Genotype × Environment interactions over time'

Dr Roberto Fritsche-Neto from the University of São Paulo will present a QAAFI science seminar

Professor David Braun will present a QAAFI Science Seminar titled 'Genes controlling sucrose movement in grasses'

Dr Deirdre Mikkelsen from QAAFI's Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences will present a seminar titled 'Are you feeding your gut microbes?'

A/Prof Liz Dann from QAAFI's Centre for Horticultural Science will present a seminar.

Hosted by QAAFI's Dr Craig Hardner, A/Prof Salvador Gezan will present a seminar titled "Is Genomic Selection Working for my Breeding Program?"

Dr Norhasnida Zawawi from Universiti Putra Malaysia will present a seminar titled "Stingless Bee Honey - Towards Standardization"

Professor Mike Gidley from QAAFI's Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences will present a seminar titled "Nourishing Australia - a decadal plan for the science of nutrition"

Dr Craig Hardner from QAAFI's Centre for Horticultural Science, and Ian McConachie, will present a QAAFI Science Seminar titled "Domestication of macadamia"

Dr Conny Turni from QAAFI's Centre for Animal Science will present a seminar.

Dr Erin Wilkus from QAAFI's Centre for Crop Science will present a seminar titled "Intensification options for diverse farms in eastern and southern Africa"

Prof Ben Hayes will present a QAAFI Science Seminar.

Dr Yan Zhao will present a QAAFI Science Seminar titled 'Predicting field scale yield: An integrated approach using high resolution satellite data and biophysical modelling'.

Assoc. Prof. Natacha Hogan from the University of Saskatchewan will present a seminar titled "Mycotoxins in animal feed and novel mitigation strategies"

Dr Alex Wu from QAAFI's Centre for Crop Science will present a seminar titled "Just how much does enhancing photosynthesis improve crop yield?"

Dr Heather Smyth from QAAFI's Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences will present a seminar titled 'Uniquely Australian Foods'.

Professor Roel Veerkamp from Wageningen University will present a seminar titled "Whole genome sequence data and novel phenotypes to improve Dutch dairy cattle"

Jayeni Hiti Bandaralage from QAAFI's Centre for Horticultural Science will present a seminar titled "Broadening the horizon of clonal avocado propagation"

Dr Jill Fernandes from QAAFI's Centre for Animal Science will present a seminar titled 'What’s next in animal welfare for Australia?'

Professor Louwrens Hoffman will present a seminar titled "Meating future protein demand"

Professor Ian Godwin from QAAFI's Centre for Crop Science will present a seminar titled "New cereals for new environments: pushing the boundaries with biotechnology"

Dr Adam Healey will present a QAAFI seminar titled "The Current State of Plant Genomic Research".

Professor Robert Henry, Director of the Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, will present a seminar titled "Reinventing plants for future agriculture".

Dr Anthony Young will present a seminar titled "A journey in plant pathology"

Dr Glen Fox will present a seminar titled "The importance of starch in brewing"

Dr Daniel Klessig will present a seminar titled "Salicylic acid and its binding proteins at the crossroads of plant and human health"

Dr Kai Voss-Fels will present a seminar titled "Breeding secures sustainable wheat production"

Elise Kho will present a seminar titled "Helminths, poo and laser"

Lisa Sharp will present a seminar titled "Global mega trends and the outlook for beef"

Prof Youhong Song will present a seminar titled "Sustaining crop production in North Anhui, China: challenges, opportunities and collaborations"

Bing Cheng "Canopy Position Influences on Gene Expression and Coffee Quality"
Samira Samarfard "Genetic Diversity and Molecular Evolution of Alfalfa Leaf Curl Virus"

Prof Michael Rychlik from the Technical University of Munich will present a seminar titled "Foodomics as the Future in Food Analysis? Opportunities and Challenges Compared to Targeted Assays"

Prof Mónica Castro Valdebenito will present a seminar titled "Advances in avocado rootstock research in Chile"

Prof Mark Cooper from The Centre for Crop Science, QAAFI will present a seminar titled `Prediction-based Crop Improvement'.

Dr Glenn Stanley from Food Standards Australia New Zealand will present a seminar titled `Identifying and managing new hazards in the food supply'.

William Nak "Topical application of dsRNA for endogenous gene control"
Alemu Tirfessa "Identifying Sorghum Plant Types Adapted to Moisture Stress Areas of Ethiopia"

Dr Melanie Kah from University of Vienna/CSIRO will present a seminar titled `Ecological risk assessment of nanopesticides'.

Dr Heidi Staudacher from the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences will present a seminar titled `Harnessing our knowledge of carbohydrates to benefit gut conditions`

Ghanendra Gartaula "Wheat endosperm cell walls: from isolation to a model"
Umair Ahsan "MicroRNA control of phase change in tropical/subtropical tree crops"

Professor Robert Henry, Director of the Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation will present a QAAFI Science Seminar, titled "Capturing biodiversity for Agriculture".

Professor Luiz Lehmann Coutinho, from the University of São Paulo will present a QAAFI Science Seminar, titled "Exploring the genetic control of beef quality in Nelore cattle".

Dr Diego V. Bohórquez is visiting from Duke University and will present a QAAFI Science Seminar, titled "Where the gut meets the brain".

The future looks generally bright for food and agribusiness both globally and in Australia. We are all well aware of the growing population and associated demand for food as well as the increasing wealth in our region creating growing export markets for safe, healthy and sustainably produced food.

Technological change is transforming how we live, work, communicate and pursue good ideas. Further, there is increased focus through the National Innovation Science Agenda, and Advance Queensland to embrace new concepts in innovation and science, and harness new sources of growth to deliver the next age of economic prosperity in Australia.

Next-generation sequencing has made genotyping cheap and fast so that many plant breeding programs today have access to whole-genome information for thousands of parental lines and progeny alike. This facilitates the construction of linkage-maps and genome-wide association studies which together are powerful tools to investigate the genetic architecture of complex or quantitative traits.

Dr Charu Lata, CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute will present a QAAFI Science Seminar on Exploration of genetic and genomic resources in millet models for abiotic stress tolerance

Dr Maggy Lord, from the Centre for Animal Science, will present a seminar on "The use of near infra-red spectroscopy technique for surveillance of major mosquito borne diseases".

Director of the UQ Genomics Initiative, Professor Dave Burt, will present a QAAFI Science Seminar on building a UQ genomics community with global impact.

Professor Juan Mosqueda will present "Bioinformatics and Immunologic Strategies for the Development of Vaccines Against Bovine Babesiosis"

A/Prof Jim Hanan from QAAFI's Centre for Plant Science will present "The Modeller-Biologist Interface: a Small-Trees High-Productivity perspective"

Dr Sushil Dhital from QAAFI's Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences, will present "Nutritional functionality of dietary fibre - an integrated view".

The GRDC Managing Director, Dr Steve Jefferies AM will present a QAAFI Science Seminar on "The Future of Grain R&D in Australia".

Dr Conny Turni from QAAFI's Centre for Animal Science, will present a seminar on "Pursuing porcine pleuropneumonia".

Associate Professor Paul Ebert from UQ's School of Biological Sciences will present a QAAFI Science Seminar, titled 'Looking to the past, monitoring the present, securing the future: Resistance to the grain fumigant phosphine'

Professor Alan Tilbrook is QAAFI's new Professor of Animal Welfare and will present a QAAFI Science Seminar, titled "Hormones, stress and animal welfare''.

Dr Alice Hayward from QAAFI's Centre for Plant Science will present a QAAFI Science Seminar, titled "Innovating Avocado - aiming for sustainability from tissue-culture to genomes."

Professor Brad Sherman from UQ's Law School will present a QAAFI Science Seminar, titled "How can intellectual property be used to improve food security?''.

QAAFI's Centre for Animal Science Director, Prof Stephen Moore, will present a QAAFI Science Seminar titled, "The Bos indicus genome, a history of tropically adapted cattle in Australia".

Dr Nima Gunness will present a QAAFI Science Seminar Series titled "Challenging conventional wisdom on how wheat and oats soluble dietary fibres modulate lipid levels" on Tuesday 4 April.

Director for QAAFI's Centre of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Professor Mike Gidley will present "Primary plant cell walls as cellulose hydrogels" at a QAAFI Science Seminar on 28 March 2017.

Dr Emily McCallum from ETH Zurich in Switzerland will present "Development of herbicide-tolerant cassava via a high-throughput chemical mutagenesis platform", in QAAFI's Seminar Series on 21 Tuesday March 2017.

QAAFI's Director of the Centre for Plant Science, Professor Graeme Hammer, will present "Beyond the black box – using biological insight and crop models to enhance plant improvement" on 14 March in QAAFI's Science Seminar Series.

Dr Luis Silva will present a QAAFI Science Seminar on "Nutritional modulation of puberty in Bos indicus heifers". Dr Silva has recently joined QAAFI to work in the field of ruminant nutrition.

As QAAFI enters its seventh year of operation, what are the key challenges facing the organisation to meet the research priorities of our stakeholders? Where will the growth be in crops, horticulture and food sciences? How can QAAFI’s global research collaborations deliver benefits to Queensland, and tropical and subtropical production systems in northern Australia? What are the challenges and opportunities to meet the key challenges of reduced R&D funding, climate stressors, technology and consumer drivers over the coming years? Join Professor Robert Henry, Director of QAAFI, for the first of QAAFI’s 2017 research seminar series.

Assistant Professor Ariel Singerman is visiting from the University of Florida and will present "Is Area-wide Pest Management Useful? The Case of Citrus Greening", in the QAAFI Science Seminar Series. 

International researchers Associate Professor Henrik Christensen and Associate Professor Paul Stothard will present a QAAFI Science Seminar entitled, "Genomics – applications from bacteria to livestock".

Associate Professor Max Shelton from the Faculty of Science, School of Agriculture and Food Sciences,
The University of Queensland will present "Five decades of leucaena R&D: Is it time to move on?" in a special SAFS and QAAFI seminar.

Dr Barbara Williams from QAAFI`s Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences will present Your microbes & you - unlocking the secret lives of your gut microbiota. The combination of diet (particularly plant cell walls) and microbial activity in the gut, have been implicated in the prevention of several chronic diseases, usually associated with the Western world. These diseases include cardio-vascular disease, Type II diabetes, obesity, and colo-rectal cancer amongst others.

PLANT SCIENCE
Associate Professor Daniel Rodriguez from QAAFI's Centre for Plant Science is presenting a seminar titled "Systems agronomy for maize and sorghum in the Northern Region".

Long-read SMRT Sequencing for New Insights into Genomes, Epigenomes and Transcriptomes

Research into this native fruit has provided the scientific grounding for an emerging industry that has brought together the funding, the science, the buyers and the Indigenous community. Dr Yasmina Sultanbawa from QAAFI's Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences and David Williams, from the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries will give an insight into the science and impact of the Kakadu Plum.

PLANT SCIENCE
Dr Andreas Stahl is a visiting research fellow from Liebig University and will present, "Improvement of nitrogen use efficiency in European winter oilseed rape".

ANIMAL SCIENCE
Associate Professor Pat Blackall from QAAFI's Centre for Animal Science is presenting a seminar titled "Clouds, (fowl) Cholera and Contigs".