A world of potential: Plant and Animal facilities support a complete pipeline of research activities
Event Details
- Date:
- Friday, 16 September 2022
- Time:
- 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm
- Room:
- GCI (20), Ventures Space, St Lucia Campus
- URL:
- https://www.uq.edu.au/research/event/session/12500
- Event category(s):
Event Contact
- Name:
- Ms Ana Vuckovic
- Phone:
- 31751
- Email:
- ana.vuckovic@uq.edu.au
- Org. Unit:
- Research Infrastructure
Event Description
- Full Description:
- Presenters: Dr Erik Van Oosterom & Ms Milou Dekkers
Central Research and Innovation Platforms (CRIPs) at UQ each provide a wide range of complementary research facilities that can support an entire pipeline of research activities. In this talk, we use the Plant Growth CRIP and the Queensland Animal Science Precinct (QASP) as a case study to illustrate how individual platforms provide a high level of integration across stakeholders and types of facilities, but do also complement each other to support a research pipeline that extends across disciplines. For plant sciences, facilities range from small environmentally controlled growth chambers that support detailed research providing novel insights at the cellular, biochemical, and organ level, to field setups that apply these insights across large populations through high-throughput phenotyping. Animal sciences extend these applications through facilities that use outcomes of plant sciences in feed studies conducted in a large variety of animals. QASP facilities and services support a wide range of additional research areas that further extent the pipeline of research activities, including climate change, methane reduction, vaccine development, meat science, Precision Livestock Farming, animal models for medical studies and large animal quarantine and GMO work. This integration and complementarity within and across CRIPs is particularly well suited to support the (large) interdisciplinary research projects that have contributed to UQ being consistently in the top 5 Universities worldwide for agricultural sciences in the last five years
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