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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.
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.
Dr Ruey-Leng Loo is a clinical pharmacist who is focusing her clinical expertise on the application of metabolic phenotyping in epidemiological and nutritional studies.
This brilliant scientist was the first in her family to attend university. But for Elaine Holmes, world-leading metabolic scientist, WA Premier’s Research Fellow and recent recipient of a prestigious Australian Laureate ARC Fellowship, academia proved a natural fit.
Dr Mark McHenry and his wife, Dr Julia Anwar McHenry grow specialty globe artichokes on Mt Lindesay Farm, near Denmark, WA. As partners in a four-year, Future Food Systems-backed project, they work with researchers at Murdoch University including ANPC scientist Dr Ruey Leng Loo and PhD student Andrew Tilley to quantify beneficial properties in globe artichokes, notably long-chain inulin.
Meet Dr Natasha Teakle, Summit speaker Dr Natasha ‘Tash’ Teakle comes from a WA farming family and spent eight years as an agricultural researcher and lecturer at the Universities of Western Australia, Glasgow, Southern California and Sydney before being becoming the head of start-up accelerator AgriStart in 2016. Last year, […]
In July. Future Food Systems staff, research leads and PhDs represented FFS, our projects and our mission at conferences and agrifood events nationwide.
Recently, two key members of the FFS team paid a productive visit to our partners in Western Australia.
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.