67 - April 2013

Welcome to another edition of eChook! The hen’s egg contains many essential nutrients, as it is a “self-contained unit” for starting a new life! Indeed, the egg is a major food source, supplying good quality, balanced nutrients to billions of people. For example, the world’s total hen egg production in 2011 was 70.5 million tonnes

Congratulations go to new Poultry CRC Honours student Mr Ben Vezina, who has been awarded the 2013 Jeff Fairbrother Scholarship. This award gives Ben an extra $2000 on top of his existing CRC scholarship. Well done Ben! Ben’s project, ‘Development of plasmid cloning vectors for use in Lactobacillus’ aims to develop new plasmid cloning vectors

Masters of Science in Agricultural – Mr Daniel Cook In early April, on the lawns of Booloominbah at the University of New England, the Sciences, Health and Medicine Awards Graduation Ceremony was held. Poultry CRC supported student Mr Daniel Cook graduated with a Master of Science in Agriculture. His thesis, titled Incidence and prevalence of

Poultry CRC PhD student Mr Hung Viet Le recently travelled to San Francisco to present a paper entitled Stability of volatile sulfur compounds (VSCs) in sampling bags – Impact of temperature. “The paper contained a segment of the results of my PhD research which is sponsored by the Poultry CRC”, Hung said. The paper was