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  • Winners announced at 6th Animal Science Poster Olympics 2021

    Winners announced at 6th Animal Science Poster Olympics 2021

    Published on: 19 February 2021
    Over 50 people attended the 6th Animal Science Poster Olympics 2021 at The University Queensland on Friday 19 February 2021.
    Animal science researchers from UQ, QUT and CSIRO exhibited 27 posters and delivered presentations to 14 industry judges during the event.
  • Dr Natasha Hungerford

    Stingless bee honey - a novel source of the beneficial disaccharide trehalulose

    23 February 2021 12:00pm
     
    in Science Seminars
    Dr Natasha Hungerford will present a science seminar titled 'Stingless bee honey - a novel source of the beneficial disaccharide trehalulose'.
  • Dr Jill Fernandes

    Improving farm animal welfare – what’s it worth?

    Published on: 27 January 2021
    Many livestock companies are aware that Australians have growing concerns over the welfare of animals. But it costs money to improve the welfare of farm animals – often a substantial investment by the business. There are many financial, practical, and ethical factors for businesses to consider when improving animal welfare, and the optimal course of action is not always obvious.
  • The sixth Animal Science poster Olympics 2021

    Animal Science Olympics

    Conference
    Established in 2012 by Associate Professor Ala Lew-Tabor, the competition run by QAAFI's Centre for Animal Science.

    In previous years the competition has attracted more than 26 participants, both research higher degree students and early career researchers in animal science from different UQ Schools and Institutes, CSIRO and the Qld Department of Agriculture & Fisheries.

    The competitors present their research across many broad areas of animal science including koala healing, rumen microbiology and bovine genetics.
  • The sixth Animal Science poster Olympics 2021

    The sixth Animal Science poster Olympics 2021

    19 February 2021 12:00pm–5:00pm
     
    in Animal Science Olympics
    The sixth Animal Science Olympics is on and we are welcoming poster submissions from all researchers in animal science. If you are not submitting a poster, come and support your peers.

  • QAAFI senior research fellow Geoffry Fordyce

    Pain relief more common practice

    Good animal welfare and animal husbandry procedures using pain relief have taken off massively in Queensland, according to Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation senior research fellow Geoffry Fordyce.
  • Dr Edward Narayan

    More frequently sheared sheep are happier mothers

    Published on: 3 December 2020
    More frequently sheared pregnant sheep are more active, have lower stress levels and produce lambs with finer wool, according to University of Queensland research.
  • Dr Edward Narayan

    Tracking stress remotely via wool cortisol and SMART tags: shearing early in pregnancy reduces stress and improves productivity of Merino sheep

    15 December 2020 12:00pm–1:00pm
     
    in Science Seminars
    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'.
  • Dr Peter James

    Buffalo fly faces Dengue nemesis

    Published on: 30 October 2020
    Few southern beef producers will have encountered the parasitic buffalo fly (Haematobia irritans exigua), a scourge of the northern cattle industry – but maintaining this state of affairs, and also lifting a burden off the northern industry, has become a race against time, and climate.
  • Dr Elizabeth Ross, QAAFI at UQ

    Combining genomic and metagenomic predictions increases accuracy

    24 November 2020 12:00pm–1:00pm
     
    in Science Seminars
    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.

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