Food Futures Update


Message from the Director In recent months, the Food Futures Flagship has forged ahead on a number of fronts, with project announcements and presentations in Australia and overseas. A significant event in the 2006 calendar was the Flagship's Science for Breakfast presentation hosted by The Hon Julie Bishop, Minister for Education, Science and Training at Parliament House. Read more Developing a taste for the future On a freezing Canberra morning on 14 June, the Hon Julie Bishop, Minister for Education, Science and Training, hosted the fifth Science for Breakfast briefing at Parliament House. Key achievements within the Food Futures Flagship on the subject "Developing a taste for the future" and how science is transforming the Australian agrifood sector, were highlighted. Read more Investigating the molecular structure of foods Under an agreement signed between the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) and CSIRO, scientists will seek to determine the molecular structure of the foods we eat. Read more New generation tiger prawns tamed on-farm A Queensland prawn farm has harvested the world's first commercial crop of black tiger prawns grown from parent stocks bred and matured in captivity. Read more Healthy partnership across the Tasman Consumers, grain producers and the food industry will benefit from a new research alliance established to find improved ways of measuring the glycaemic response of grains, ingredients and processed foods. Read more 'Blueblood' salmon bloodlines for Tasmania A new science-industry partnership is recruiting an elite pool of Atlantic salmon bloodlines to transform Tasmania's $170 million Atlantic salmon industry. Only the healthiest, fastest growing and finest quality Atlantic salmon families will be selected in a commercial breeding program being developed by Salmon Enterprises of Tasmania (Saltas) and CSIRO through the Food Futures Flagship. Read more Fellowship to boost livestock breeding program An internationally renowned researcher in nanostructured materials and biomaterials, Dr Nicolas Voelcker, has been awarded a Visiting Fellowship within the Food Futures Flagship to boost efforts to develop new livestock breeding technologies. Read more Awarding young talent Matthew Miller, post-graduate student with the Food Futures Flagship's Advanced Genetics program, recently received the Best Poster award at the XII International Symposium of Fish Nutrition and Feeding at Biarritz, France. Matthew is based at CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research in Hobart and with the University of Tasmania in Launceston. Read more An industrious approach to salmon science Aquaculture biologist Richard Taylor has embarked on PhD research with the University of Tasmania that will investigate genetic factors influencing resistance to amoebic gill disease (AGD) in Atlantic salmon. Read more	IN THIS EDITION: UPDATE Home Message from the Director Developing a taste for the future Investigating the molecular structure of foods New generation tiger prawns tamed on-farm Healthy partnership across the Tasman 'Blueblood' salmon bloodlines for Tasmania Fellowship to boost livestock breeding program Awarding young talent An industrious approach to salmon science MEET THE SCIENTIST: Meet Dr Stephen Trowell developing biosensor technology EARLIER UPDATES March 2006 December 2005 July 2005 March 2005 November 2004
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