PhD progress report: Gehan Abdelghany, ‘Commercialising native rice’ project
Darwin-based FFS PhD scholar Gehan Abdelghany’s research is contributing valuable agronomic information to the FFS-backed ‘Commercialising native rice’ project.
Darwin-based FFS PhD scholar Gehan Abdelghany’s research is contributing valuable agronomic information to the FFS-backed ‘Commercialising native rice’ project.
A specialised Food Science and Nutrition campus run by Murdoch University has launched at the Food Innovation Precinct WA.
On 8 September, the UNSW-based Chemical Engineering Research Society (CERS) hosted a well-attended tasting of Love BUDS, the new alt-meat range from CRC participant All G Foods.
CSIRO’s new National Protein Roadmap shows how Australia can capture a $13 billion opportunity to deliver quality proteins of all types – animal, plant and cell-cultured – to meet growing demand globally.
Murdoch University Associate Professor Vicky Solah brings 36 years of expertise in food science and human nutrition to the CRC. Right now she’s profiling artichokes for CRC partner Mt Lindesay. Next, she’ll begin upcycled fruit-and-veg product trials at the new WA Food Innovation Precinct.
Michael Fox, co-founder and CEO of thriving alt-meat SME Fable Food Co, has been busy running the company – and guesting on podcasts Curveball and The Mentor, where he discussed sustainable food production, pandemic pivoting and how he secured investor backing for Fable.
Australia has the potential to become a major player in the billion-dollar global edible insect industry, producing nutritious, sustainable, ethical protein products to bolster global food security, contends a new roadmap by Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO.
A new report from ABARES details global megatrends set to shape the future of our nation’s agriculture sector – from data-driven disruption to dramatic climate change.
For Egyptian academic Gehan Abdelghany, who’s spent much of her career to date finding beneficial uses of indigenous plant species, undertaking a PhD with the FFS-backed ‘Commercialising native rice’ project was a natural progression.
UNSW Associate Professor Pat Spicer’s broad-ranging career spans industry, academia and two continents. The constants? Complex fluids and collaboration.