Message from the Director

Insect 'noses' the key to Cybernose collaboration

A new $4 million collaboration announced August will help scientists in their efforts to produce a new generation of electronic nose, the 'Cybernose'. Researchers in the collaborative Cluster between The Australian National University, Monash University and CSIRO's Food Futures National Research Flagship are trying to understand how simple animals make sense of smells. Read more

R&D partnership targets 'super-healthy' wheats

A partnership aimed at accelerating the development of new super-healthy wheat varieties has been formed through the Food Futures Flagship between CSIRO Plant Industry, Limagrain Céréales Ingrédients and the Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC). Read more

Efficiency Drive

Researchers are looking at ways to smooth the bumps in the road to market for Australia's agrifoods sector. There was a time when the local produce market was in the town square; a straight cart run from farm to the centre of town. Today a lot of farm produce has to be freighted hundreds of kilometres and involves a vast transport, packaging and storage infrastructure. Read more

Food Futures Vision Conference

Adelaide was the meeting point for the Food Futures Vision '06 Conference in August.

The conference brought together the Food Futures team from across the entire Flagship portfolio together with a number of eminent representatives from industry and affiliated research partners. The three day conference was well supported with more than 140 delegates attending. Read more

Fellowship explores the secrets of glowworms

Rod Rickards, an Emeritus Professor and Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University, has been awarded a Visiting Fellowship in the Food Futures Flagship. He is working with Dr Stephen Trowell, Theme Leader of the Quality Biosensors group which is developing technologies to assist in winemaking and improve the global competitiveness of the Australian wine industry. Read more

The world of dried proteins

Proteins are one of the principal components in food which have a diverse function ranging from structures that control mouthfeel and texture, emulsification to stabilise oil drops and importantly providing nutrition in products. Although ubiquitous, very little is known about the protein molecular properties that govern these attributes and their material behaviour in dried and semi-dried foods. Read more

Study Award expands research horizons

In April this year, Veronica Glattauer travelled to the USA and Germany having been awarded the prestigious the CSIRO Chief Executive's Study Award. This award gave Veronica the opportunity to obtain first hand experience in two leading international laboratories and review the latest developments in the area of basement membrane research. Veronica is based in CSIRO Molecular and Health Technologies in Clayton Victoria and works in the Food Futures Flagship Breed Engineering Theme. Read more

International focus on Food Futures Flagship

The Food Futures Flagship has recently drawn interest from overseas governments and food industries. Eager to learn more about the developments being made by Australian food researchers, international delegations have visited Australia. Read more
 

The Food Futures Flagship is a CSIRO initiative and part of the National Research Flagships program that aims to deliver scientific solutions to advance Australia's most important national objectives. One of the largest scientific initiatives ever mounted in Australia, it aligns closely with the Federal Government's National Research Priorities. The initiative brings together our national research resources to deliver breakthroughs in fields ranging from healthcare to light metals and the environment.

Please feel free to forward it to those in your organisation who would be interested in receiving future newsletters.

If you do not wish to receive this electronic newsletter from the Food Futures Flagship, please reply to this message with the word "unsubscribe" in the subject line. Alternatively, please contact editor.foodfutures@csiro.au or telephone us on +61 2 9490 8491 to request the removal of your email address.

This E-Newsletter is a publication of CSIRO. It does not purport to be comprehensive or to render professional advice. All material in this publication is subject to copyright. For permission to reproduce any part or all of an article, please contact the editor.