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Alison Bentley, Director of the Global Wheat Program at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and CEAT Fellow, was announced as the 2023 Borlaug CAST Communication Award Recipient earlier this month. She was recognised for her work raising the awareness of the importance of wheat as a global
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During April, I had the pleasure of travelling to the UK to attend the annual New Phytologist editorial meeting, which this year was held in sunny Glasgow (every day was blue skies!). I have been an editor of New Phytologist since 2007 and am proud of the way the journal
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An ANU delegation, organised and led by CEAT, travelled to Vietnam in mid-March to visit the Center for Agricultural Innovation (CAI) at the Vietnam National University of Agriculture (VNUA). Their trip was part of the Resilient Agriculture and Food (RAF) Initiative, part of the larger Aus4Innovation program aimed at helping
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For ANU plant biologists Dr Annamaria De Rosa and Dr Samantha McGaughey, touring a Tasmanian salmon farm is not a regular day in the office. The two researchers from the ANU School of Research Biology recently travelled to the southern state as part of a joint ANU-CSIRO project to develop
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Jazmyn Michie is studying Environment and Sustainability at the Australian National University. She recently attended the evokeAG 2023 agri food tech conference which gave her food for thought on the challenge producers face in embracing sustainability, while also running a profitable business. When entering the evokeAg 2023 conference I was
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The CEAT Innovation Hub is undergoing a transformation, with new and refreshed spaces to enable more agri-food focused businesses to join our Hub community. CEAT recently took over the space formerly occupied by ANU Legal in the back wing of the Gould Building at ANU, nearly doubling our original footprint.
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March has been a month of travelling to new places, establishing new networks, using our experience through CEAT to advise others and being proud of the achievements of others. Over the past few years, it’s been a privilege to work with committed colleagues and industry partners as we have built
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February may be a short month, but boy, there is quite a bit you can pack into 28 days! For CEAT, the month began with a visit to our Innovation Hub by Senator David Pocock to meet Hub start-up Wildlife Drones. The Senator was taken into one of the labs
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The CEAT team are working with the Vietnam National University of Agriculture (VNUA) as part of a program to help them with their transformation to an innovation culture, and advancing their commercialisation agenda. The Vietnam National University of Agriculture (VNUA), located in Hanoi in the country’s north, aims to be