55 - March 2012

Welcome to another edition of eChook! In this edition, we will update you on our work on necrotic enteritis. Dr Rob Moore and his team have built on our previous research to produce a number of vaccines that we will be exploring commercially in the near future. This will be of great benefit to the

Clinical necrotic enteritis (NE) massively damages the lining of a chicken’s intestine, causing disease and, often, death. Sub-clinical NE, while not demonstrating the characteristic clinical symptoms of severe lesions, impairs the intestine’s ability to absorb nutrients and results in illness and poor growth, potentially accounting for over 90% of the economic losses suffered by chicken

After arriving in Australia for the 2012 Australian Poultry Science Symposium, Professor Birger Svihus has spent some time at the Poultry CRC HQ in Armidale. Currently a Professor with the Department of Animal and Aquacultural Sciences at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (with its Norwegian acronym being UMB), Birger has a background in Animal Science, and holds a PhD

In addition to larger sub-projects being undertaken by Poultry CRC post-doctoral researchers, we support a number of Honours, Masters and PhD students across our participant universities. What follows is a short profile of five of these students; a brief outline of their projects and how they are progressing. Emma Bradbury In her final year in Animal and