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Australian National Phenome Centre (ANPC)
World-leading researchers at the ANPC plan to revolutionise the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of serious health challenges such as cancer, Alzheimer’s, autism, obesity and Type 2 diabetes. By analysing the molecular, physical and biochemical characteristics of biological tissue and fluids such as blood and urine, researchers at the ANPC aim to predict the complex genetic,...
Future of Food Summit: International speakers
Experts in infrastructure planning and transport logistics, advanced nutritional analysis and innovative, Indigenous-led agrifood systems from the Netherlands, UK and Canada gave attendees of the 2022 Future of Food Summit much food for thought.
New Australian research centre will transform human health worldwide
The establishment of the Australian National Phenome Centre (ANPC) at Murdoch University, a key research partner of the Future Food Systems CRC, will advance our understanding of the human phenome, underpinning more sophisticated personalised medicine and paving the way for the development of an array of high-value ‘precision nutrition’ food products and nutraceuticals. The new...
Prof. Jeremy Nicholson
Professor Jeremy Nicholson is Pro Vice Chancellor of Health Sciences at Murdoch University in Perth, Western Australia, where he leads the Australian National Phenome Centre (ANPC). In 2012, Nicholson was appointed Director and Principle Investigator of the MRC-NIHR National Phenome Centre based at Imperial College London, where he had led the Department of Surgery and Cancer since 2009. In 2018, he became Emeritus Professor of Biological Chemistry at Imperial College. The same year, Prof. Nicholson moved to Perth to take up his role as PVC of Health Sciences at Murdoch. Nicholson holds honorary professorships at 12 universities and multiple professorships at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, to which he was elected as an Albert Einstein Honorary Professor in 2014. He was recently appointed as a special adviser to the Minister of Health in Western Australia. He is also founder-director, chief scientist and chief scientist officer at Metabometrix, an Imperial College London spin-off company specialising in molecular phenotyping, clinical diagnostics and toxicological screening via metabonomics and metabolomics. Prof. Nicholson’s research interests include spectroscopic and chemometric approaches to the investigation of disturbed metabolic processes in complex organisms.He is known for having developed metabonomics, also referred to as metabolic profiling. He brings world-leading research expertise to his role as the CRC’s Research Program 3 lead.
Dr Ruey-Leng Loo
Ruey-Leng Loo is a Western Australia Premier’s Early to Mid-Career Fellow and a senior researcher at Murdoch University's Australian National Phenome Centre (ANPC). She has expertise in epidemiological studies and in data analytics for metabolic phenotyping. Her research delivers new knowledge of dietary impacts on human metabolism and health/disease, and provides a translational bridge to the food science industry.
Development of precision nutrition strategies
The main objective of the PhD project is to obtain detailed molecular phenotypes of WA fresh produce (olive oils and edible fruit) using spectroscopic technologies available to the Australian National Phenome Centre (ANPC).
Analytical techniques for value-added solutions – Dr Ruey-Leng Loo
Dr Ruey-Leng Loo, part of the expert team at Murdoch University’s world-leading Australian National Phenome Centre, leads the CRC’s flagship ‘Metabolomic food library’ project, producing detailed ‘chemical fingerprints’ of Western Australian food products that prove their provenance and nutritional credentials. Here, she explains how the process works and why it will help producers’ bottom lines.
State-of-the-art metabolomics food library launched in Western Australia
Scientists at Murdoch University’s Australian National Phenome Centre (ANPC) are embarking on a project with Bruker BioSpin and SMEs across Western Australia to create unique chemical fingerprinting methods for WA produce as part of the Future Food Systems CRC.
Future of Food Summit 2022
Thursday 1 & Friday 2 December 2022QUT Kelvin Grove Campus, Brisbane About Program* Speakers* Facility tours Location Gallery The Future of Food Summit 2022 will drive discussion on issues central to the mission of the Future Food Systems Cooperative Research Centre: to develop smart, sustainable, resilient food systems that capitalise on Australia’s unique strengths, give our agrifood products a...
FFS-backed research recognised in prestigious academic journals
Several Future Food Systems-backed PhD students and project leads have had research papers published this year,
Andong Zhu
Andong ‘Andy’ Zhu is currently undertaking his PhD with Murdoch University’s Australian National Phenome Centre (ANPC), under the supervisor of Associate Professor Dr Ruey-Leng Loo and Professor Elaine Holmes. His research is titled “Evaluating the acute effect of consuming inulin-based fibres on gut transit time and metabolic biochemistry in adults”. This project aims to investigate...
For Food’s Sake Summit tours: SIFT opening and Melville Park farm
Guests who joined our recent day tours of the new SIFT facility at FIPWA and Melville Park farm glimpsed the collaborative future of food innovation and value-adding in WA
Charlotte Rowley
Murdoch University PhD candidate Charlotte Rowley is working with world-leading scientists at Murdoch University’s Australian National Phenome Centre (ANPC) to obtain molecular phenotypes of WA produce including olive oils and fruit, contributing valuable data on provenance and quality that could aid in the development of high-value precision nutrition products. In Part 1 of her two-part thesis, Rowley...
Bruker Biospin
Bruker’s sophisticated scientific instruments and high-value analytical and diagnostic solutions enable scientists to explore life and materials at molecular, cellular and microscopic levels. The company collaborates closely with clients in life-science molecular research; applied and pharma applications; and microscopy, nano-analysis and industrial applications. Bruker has also become a provider of high-performance systems for cell biology,...
Future Food Systems eNews issue # 39 – September 2023
FFS Summit discounted earlybird tickets on sale Planning is in full swing for For Food’s Sake: It’s our future in February. We’ve now launched a dedicated event portal, so you can check out the agenda, confirmed speakers and sponsors, details about our Gala Dinner at the prestigious 6HEAD restaurant in Perth, and more. Tickets for...
FFS team flies west for pre-Summit planning & FIPWA workshop
In August, FFS team members flew west for a series of stakeholder meetings, visits to Mt Lindesay and Melville Park farms and delivery of an FFS-FIPWA workshop.
FFS team goes west
Recently, two key members of the FFS team paid a productive visit to our partners in Western Australia.
Key leaders appointed to Western Australia’s new food technology facility, SIFT
Murdoch University’s Food Futures Institute has appointed key leaders to drive operations at its Food Technology Facility. Future Food Systems CRC is a major partner in the operations of the FTF.
CRC project team develops new techniques to track the provenance of chicken eggs
Early results from the CRC's 'Food metabolomics library' project, set to appear in prestigious academic journal Food Science, detail a fast, simple method for measuring lipid components that accurately distinguishes free-range from cage and barn-laid eggs.
Future Food Systems eNews issue # 29 – November 2022
More speakers announced! Don't miss out! Thursday 1 & Friday 2 December 2022 We’ve added more exciting names to our speaker line-up, including Imperial College London’s Prof. Gary Frost, Austrade’s Cheryl Stanilewicz and QUT’s Prof. Sagadevan Mundree, plus tours of QUT’s Robotics Centre, agrifood facilities and Indigenous garden. Less than 70 seats remain: don’t miss...