QAAFI Seminar: Plants to feed and fuel the planet - contributions from Queensland to global food and energy security

Event Details

Date:

Tuesday, 11 February 2014

Time:

12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Room:

Level 3, Large Seminar Room, Blg 80

UQ Location:

Queensland Bioscience Precinct (St Lucia)

URL:

http://www.qaafi.uq.edu.au/qaafi-seminars-2014

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Full Description:: Professor Robert Henry – “Plants to feed and fuel the planet: contributions from Queensland to global food and energy security”

Professor Henry, is a graduate of the University of Queensland, BSc (Hons), Macquarie University, MSc (Hons) and La Trobe University (PhD). In 2000 he was awarded a higher doctorate (DSc) by UQ for his work on analysis of variation in plants. In 2013 , Robert Henry was elected as Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE).

Before being appointed QAAFI Director in May 2010, Robert was Director of the Centre for Plant Conservation Genetics at Southern Cross University, a centre which he established in 1996. Other previous positions held by Professor Henry include Research Director of the Grain Foods Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) (until 2010) and Research Program Leader in the Queensland Agricultural Biotechnology Centre (until 1996).