Poultry CRC scientist, CSIRO Livestock Industries’ Anthony Keyburn, has been awarded the 2008 PhD Prize by the Monash University Department of Microbiology and biopharmaceutical company, CSL for his research on the devastating bacterial chicken disease necrotic enteritis. Working at the Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL) facility, Anthony Keyburn and a team of scientists, led by his PhD supervisors, Rob Moore and Julian Rood (Monash

Postgraduate / Postdoctoral / Intern Update Emma Borland (a CRC Honours Student) reports that her birds have arrived and her project trial is being set up. Emma is also currently writing her research proposal and literature review. A Research Scientists / Interns / Postgrad / Postdoc / Honours Session (workshops and industry visits) will be

One of the Poultry CRC’s original PhD scholarship students is back from an overseas industry internship and teaching the next generation of Australia’s poultry scientists. Bec Forder returned to Australia in February to take up an Associate Lecturer position at the Universty of Adelaide’s Roseworthy Campus. “I’m expanding on the findings from my PhD to

Postgraduate / Postdoctoral / Intern Update A Postgrad/Postdoc Session (workshops and industry visits) is currently being planned for May or June (exact dates still to be determined). This activity will be based in Armidale, with industry visits to a hatchery, an integrated layer farm and a feed mill. The format is an afternoon workshop for

The Poultry CRC’s achievements will be showcased at Canberra’s National Convention Centre in May. The route out of the quagmire of the global financial crisis will be the focus of Pathfinders: The Innovator’s Conference, which gets under way on May 26. The formidable line-up of national and international speakers is expected to attract scientists, politicians, senior

Welcome to another edition of eChook. The Poultry CRC lodged its re-bid application this month for a second round of funding to take the CRC through to 2017. The Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research will announce on April 24 which applications will progress to the interview stage in Canberra between June 30 and July

The 20th Biennial Recent Advances in Animal Nutrition – Australia Conference will bring together animal nutrition experts to discuss issues that are of importance to industry and are at the forefront of research and the development of new knowledge. The 2009 conference marks 32 years since the inception of Recent Advances. Over this time, Recent Advances has developed from a

The issue of wild birds on free range broiler farms was addressed at the Avian Veterinary Poultry Association (AVPA) conference in Sydney in February. Dr. Bruce Remington gave a presentation about the survey that was conducted on Free Range Egg and Poultry Australia Ltd (FREPA) broiler farms in southern Victoria and southeast Queensland. The number of free

A young Iranian postgraduate student studying at New Zealand’s Massey University has won the Poultry CRC Postgraduate Presentation Award at the Australian Poultry Science Symposium in Sydney earlier this month. What is remarkable about Reza Abdollahi’s achievement is that it was only the second time he had presented in English. Reza’s presentation, “Influence of pelleting

Welcome to another edition of eChook. Many of you directly involved with the CRC may have heard by now that Associate Professor John Barnett and his wife Jenny died in the Victorian bush fires earlier this month. John Barnett dedicated his life to animal welfare research, including leading the Poultry CRC’s Welfare Program from its inception

Industry Training Update Certificate IV in Workplace Training and Assessment Suzanne McInerney from Country Range Farming near Toowoomba has received her Certificate IV in Workplace Training and Assessment – congratulations to Suzanne. The Poultry CRC sponsored the fees for Suzanne’s training and Country Range Farming sponsored her time to complete the training. Two other industry personnel have

Pioneering biotechnology will allow the Australian egg industry to save otherwise discarded male chicks. Nearly half of all chicks hatched for the layer industry hatch as males and need to be culled. The Australian Poultry CRC, in collaboration with CSIRO Livestock Industries, is patenting a method to control sex determination in birds. This means that,

Poultry CRC Education Coordinator, Julie Roberts, teamed up with Farmgate Training’s Susan Gleeson and poultry training consultant, Michael Williams, in early January to plan the development of a poultry-specific teacher resource for use by schools and other learning institutes. The initiative gained momentum following a national teachers’ meeting held last November in Sydney, attended by