Date

22 May, Tuesday 2018

 

Speaker1: MAT COOK

• Program Research Director
• Aquaculture Program (RP6)
• Mat is based @ QBP, Brisbane

 

Topic: Aquaculture; shouldn’t you be in O&A instead of Ag&F?

Research-area, importance, impact:

• Applied R&D to drive Aquaculture sustainability
• Meeting the seafood needs of the globe
• Partnerships directly impacting end users

Area/s of expertise:

• Applied Breeding and Genomics
• Nutrition
• Health and Production

 

Speaker2: MICHELLE COLGRAVE

• Proteomics Research Scientist, and Team Leader
• Productive and Adaptive Livestock Program (RP4)
• Michelle is based @ QBP, Brisbane

 

Topic: Next-generation proteomics – what can it do for you?

Research-area, importance, impact:

I will cover the application of data-independent acquisition (DIA) workflows in my laboratory using the newly acquired TripleTOF 6600 MS system. Sequential window acquisition of all theoretical spectra, or SWATH-MS, is a promising strategy for biomarker discovery for large-scale screening, and is considered the equivalent of next generation DNA sequencing technologies in the proteomic space. DIA approaches offer potential in the identification of biomarkers on a scale not currently possible with targeted MS approaches. SWATH-MS represents an important tool for the discovery and preliminary validation studies that can be transposed to MRM approaches to validate the candidate biomarkers.

Area/s of expertise :

• Proteomics
• Mass Spectrometry
• Bioinformatics

 

 

Speaker3: CECILE GODDE

• PhD Student (CSIRO-Food Systems and Global Change, The University of Queensland-QAAFI)
• Agriculture and Global Change Program (RP8)
• Cecile is based @ QBP, Brisbane

Topic: Global grazing systems: dynamics, drivers and trade-offs

Research-area, importance, impact:

• The livestock sector is a high priority on the global policy agenda. The increase in human population, together with shifting dietary preferences and rapidly increasing incomes in emerging economies, has placed an unprecedented demand on livestock products.
• Considering the rapidity of the changes in global livestock demand and production, the large spatial extent of grazing systems (~22% of the Earth’s ice-free land surface is under permanent pastures), as well as the impact of grazing systems dynamics on our society and the environment, there is an urgent need to 1) identify the different drivers of grazing systems expansion and intensification around the world, 2) understand the recent past and projected future main dynamics of these systems in relation to their drivers, 3) assess the environmental consequences of these dynamics.

Area/s of expertise:

• Herd, rangeland and pastureland modelling
• Climate change impacts on global grazing systems; mitigation and adaptation strategies
• Relationships between grazing systems, intensification strategies and food production, the climate and biodiversity

 

Venues	Local Time	Time Zone
Adelaide Waite Campus – B101-FG-R00-SmallWICWest	12:00 pm	ACST
Armidale – B55-FG-R00-Small	12:30 pm	AEST
Brisbane St Lucia QBP – Room 3.323	12:30 pm	AEST
Canberra Black Mountain – Discovery Lecture Theatre	12:30 pm	AEST
Canberra Crace – Bld44- Meeting Room 3	12:30 pm	AEST
Narrabri Myall Vale – Conference Room	12:30 pm	AEST
Perth Floreat B40-F1-R46-Rossiter Room	10:30 am	AWST
Sandy Bay (Hobart) – River View Room	12:30 pm	AEST
Toowoomba – Meeting Room	12:30 pm	AEST
Werribee (Melbourne) – Peacock Room	12:30 pm	AEDT