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Challenging conventional wisdom on how wheat and oats soluble dietary fibres modulate lipid levels

4 April 2017 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
in QAAFI Science Seminar Series
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.

Primary plant cell walls as cellulose hydrogels

28 March 2017 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
in QAAFI Science Seminar Series
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.

“Fantastic” folates and where to find them in Australian foods?

4 April 2017 4:00pm–5:00pm
 
in RACI QLD & NSA QLD A&E seminar
Honorary Professor Michael Rychlik will present a NSA and RACI seminar "“Fantastic” folates and where to find them in Australian foods?" at Forensic and Scientific Services, Coopers Plains on Tuesday 4 April 2017.
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Bavarian Ministry for Education, Science and the Arts visits UQ

3 March 2017
Michael Netzel (QAAFI) was invited by the UQ Global Engagement office to join the networking morning tea event with the Bavarian Ministry for Education, Science and the Arts and their accompanying academic delegation on Friday the 3rd of March
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World’s most popular liquor could offer opportunity for Australian sorghum

27 January 2017
The Australian Export Grains Innovation Centre, QAAFI, Qld Government, Functional Grains Centre at Charles Sturt University, are examining opportunities for increasing the value of Australian sorghum in China.
Professor Robert Gilbert

World-renowned polymer chemist works on development of new diabetes treatments

20 December 2016
After years of work Prof. Gilbert achieved a breakthrough relating to the biophysical mechanics of the disease, discovering that diabetes is uncontrolled glucose release.
Dr Yasmina Sultanbawa acknowledged at 2016 B/HERT Awards

UQ acknowledged at B/HERT Awards

19 December 2016
Dr Yasmina Sultanbawa has been acknowledged for her 'Kakadu Plum - Fruitful collaboration puts indigenous industry on the world stage' project at the 2016 B/HERT Awards.
Dr Purnima Gunness

New discovery at heart of healthy cereals

6 December 2016
Researchers in UQ’s Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences have identified a new mechanism for how healthy cereals such as oats reduce the amount of cholesterol in the blood stream, thereby lowering the risk of heart disease.
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$10m research project seeks 'superfoods' to keep us healthy

25 November 2016
Tim O’Hare invented SuperGold sweet corn, a variety that protects against macular eye degeneration

Your microbes & you - unlocking the secret lives of your gut microbiota

8 November 2016 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
in QAAFI Science Seminar Series
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.

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