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Twenty six postgraduate students and interns supported by the Poultry CRC came together with CRC staff and Program Managers in Brisbane on the 15th March for the CRC’s annual PoultryGrad workshop. This year’s program included a one-day field trip to nearby Mount Cotton to visit the Darwalla Hatchery, a broiler grower farm and the Golden

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Welcome to another edition of eChook! The 26th Australian Poultry Science Symposium was held recently in Sydney where distinguished international and Australian scientists presented their latest scientific findings and most up-to-date views on poultry science and poultry production over three days. At the Symposium, the Australian Poultry Award, the most prestigious prize in Australia for

Dr Karen Holden has commenced working with Poultry CRC partners Bioproperties and Eimeria Pty Ltd within the CRC’s internship program. Previously Karen has been a CRC-supported PhD student, and has worked as a post-doc at The University of Melbourne and CSIRO’s Australian Animal Health Laboratory. We asked Karen to recount her path into the poultry

Poultry CRC is delighted that at the recent Australian Poultry Science Symposium in Sydney, one of our very own, Dr Pat Blackall, was awarded the Australian Poultry Award from The World’s Poultry Science Association. Dr Blackall is a Poultry CRC Research Manager, heads up the CRC’s Safe and Quality Food Production program (Program 3) and

Welcome to another edition of eChook and Happy New Year to everyone! In this eChook piece, I would like to touch upon the need to explore alternative feed sources in order to meet the food demand for an ever increasing global population. Feed production is driven by meat consumption, which, in turn, is driven by

Mycoplasma gallisepticum (MG) is an important infection of poultry worldwide, causing chronic respiratory disease in chickens and turkeys. Poultry CRC industry partner Bioproperties Pty Ltd has a live attenuated vaccine (Vaxsafe® MG) against MG in chickens that was developed by Professor Kevin Whithear at the Asia-Pacific Centre for Animal Health (APCAH). This vaccine has been

At the start of 2015, recently graduated veterinarian Dr Karen Gao has become the latest post-graduate to receive a 12 month Poultry CRC Internship. “As a new graduate from The University of Sydney, I am privileged to start my veterinary career working within the Australian poultry industry” said Karen. She will be working as a

Back in May 2011, we profiled Mr Michael Cressman, one of our then PhD students, from CRC participant The Ohio State University (OSU) in the USA. Michael lived in Armidale for a year while undertaking his PhD, and worked with Professor Steve Walkden-Brown at the University of New England. Dr Cressman is now an Assistant

During the year, Drs Tamsyn Crowley and Anthony Keyburn discovered that microRNA profiles differ from stressed hens compared to non-stressed hens. This means that a potential, non-invasive scientific test for the welfare status of birds will be possible. This is a world first. It will add an objective measure to what is usually a highly

Recently appointed as a Research and Development Project Manager at AECL, Dr Kylie Hewson (a PhD graduate of the previous Australian Poultry CRC) is developing through-chain Salmonella risk management strategies for eggs. Only three months into the project, Kylie has already met a multitude of stakeholders including National and State level Health Departments and Agencies

Poultry CRC students and staff travelled to Sydney in mid-November to participate in two days of filming for an upcoming series of video clips for a “Poultry in Schools” project. The project, which is a joint venture between Poultry CRC and NSW Department of Education, aims to produce a series of short, informative videos which

Welcome to another edition of eChook! In this edition, I would like to talk about “Gut Health” in the way I understand it. These days, the large proportion of nutrition articles published in poultry journals are related to gut health and indeed it is an extremely important research topic. But the maintenance or enhancement of