Industry PhDs

Future Food Systems scholars are placed within industry research projects, ensuring strong real-world industry engagement.

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PhD opportunity – Cultivation of new truffle species in Australia

We have an exciting industry-initiated PhD opportunity to explore new truffle species for cultivation in Australia. The PhD project will examine inoculum production and inoculation processes, different hosts and nursery substrates, the development of a molecular diagnostic protocol to distinguish between different Tuber species, and the use of this protocol to follow the inoculation and establishment of the Tuber species in the nursery and plantations.

PhD news

CRC welcomes three new PhDs

Three new doctoral candidates will contribute valuable research to CRC projects, investigating cooling strategies for protected cropping, analysing herbal weight loss supplements and creating detailed molecular profiles of WA foods to form the foundation of strategies around precision nutrition.

CRC projects on the agenda at 2022 PCA Conference in Coffs

Research leads, PhDs and project collaborators from government and industry are among the CRC-affiliated presenters at this year’s PCA Conference.

Gareema Pandey: Optimising nutritional content in polytunnel-grown blueberries

As CRC Industry PhD student attached to the ‘Blueberry nutritional optimisation’ project, Gareema Pandey is working with crop scientists and sustainability experts at Western Sydney University and NSW Department of Primary Industries to improve the nutritional profile of blueberries grown undercover.

Mark Cardamis: seeking mobile sensing solutions for remote crop control

Mark Cardamis has graduated from making mini greenhouse prototypes to joining a collaborative university-industry project team as a CRC Industry PhD, exploring mobile sensing systems for remote monitoring of crops in advanced indoor greenhouse systems.

Gehan Abdelghany: exploring uses for native crops from the Nile to Northern Australia

Appointed to the ‘Commercialising native rice project’ early in 2020, CRC PhD student and beneficial indigenous-species expert Gehan Abdelghany is working on the theoretical component of her doctorate from Egypt while she waits for travel bans to lift.

Phil Thomas: Seeking the microbial edge in hydroponic tomatoes

For this IT-pro-turned-UNE-microbiology post-grad, the chance to study the root microbiome of greenhouse-grown tomatoes with Costa Group under the CRC was one too good to refuse.

For more information contact

Brian Sindel
Industry PhD Program Lead
Future Food Systems CRC
bsindel@une.edu.au