Congratulations to Nathan Cleasby from Living Water Aquaculture who was awarded the ultimate honour with the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry’s Award for his project - Developing novel hatchery technology for the Australian Freshwater Crayfish industry.
| Recipient | Sponsor | Project title |
|---|---|---|
| Nathan Cleasby | AgriFutures Australia | Developing novel hatchery technology for the Australian Freshwater Crayfish Industry |
| Stephen Connaughton | Australian Meat Processor Corporation | Using machine learning with DXA as a technique to detect bones and virtually dissect lamb carcasses at chain speed |
| Zenon Czenze | Wine Australia | Determining the Economic Value of Insect Control by Bats in Vineyards |
| Caitlin Evans | CSIRO | Preparing for a disease incursion: what threat do feral ungulates pose to the persistence of livestock diseases in Australia? |
| Tristan Guillemin | Fisheries Research and Development Corporation | Evaluating the effect of secondary predation when characterising the diet of large pelagic fishes |
| Ashley Jones | Forest & Wood Products Australia | Identifying the dynamic plant RNA modifications needed to combat myrtle rust |
| Taylor Pini | Australian Wool Innovation | The sperm-cervix interaction: A molecular investigation to improve cervical artificial insemination outcomes in sheep |
| James Preston | Australian Wool Innovation | Increasing the rate of genetic gain in clean fleece weight of sheep using corrected skin density measurements for allometric growth |
| Laura Rood | Australian Pork Limited | The effects of pH on the shelf-life of vacuum-packed pork products |
| Georgie Stephan | Hort Innovation | Deciphering molecular interactions between banana and fungal leaf pathogens using PacBio sequencing, AlphaFold and DeepFRI protein structure and function prediction |
| Cong Vu | Cotton Research and Development Corporation | Boosting Drought Stress Tolerance in Cotton using Nanoparticle Technology |
| Salome Wilson | Grains Research and Development Corporation | Rapid validation of novel genes involved in plant disease |
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2023 Science Awards partners
- AgriFutures Australia
- Australian Eggs
- Australian Meat Processor Corporation
- Australian Pork Limited
- Australian Wool Innovation
- Cotton Research and Development Corporation
- CSIRO Biosecurity digital innovation
- Fisheries Research and Development Corporation
- Forest & Wood Products Australia
- Grains Research and Development Corporation
- Hort Innovation
- Wine Australia