
Yusuf Adewale: developing a predictive modelling tool for egg production
UNE PhD Yusuf Adewale’s top-up CRC scholarship will help support his research developing a predictive modelling tool to determine the quantity and quality of egg production.
UNE PhD Yusuf Adewale’s top-up CRC scholarship will help support his research developing a predictive modelling tool to determine the quantity and quality of egg production.
QUT PhD Lijun Summerhayes’ CRC top-up scholarship will support her timely research into urban food planning in Australia.
A CRC top-up PhD scholarship will support Odgerel Bumandalai’s research into the use of cold-plasma technology for safe storage of fresh spirulina.
UNSW PhD student Rishi Ravindra Naik is looking to develop new products with ‘clean label’ and sustainability claims by modifying non-traditional plant proteins with seaweeds for improved techno-functionality.
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.
Research leads, PhDs and project collaborators from government and industry are among the CRC-affiliated presenters at this year’s PCA Conference.
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.
UNE has teamed with Tamworth Regional Council and local businesses in a program to get UNE Innovation PhDs working on real-world innovations that capitalise on the region’s food, agribusiness and ag-tech strengths.
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.
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.