32nd Annual Australian Poultry Science Symposium

Dr. Abraham is an Associate Professor at Murdoch University with a research interest in Antimicrobial Resistance and drug discovery. He completed his PhD from The University of Wollongong and NSW DPI (2012) on antimicrobial resistance and adaption characteristics of porcine E. coli. Following his PhD, he undertook a post-doctoral position on antimicrobial resistance and drug discovery with Prof. Darren Trott at The University of Adelaide for 2 years. In 2015 he commenced an academic position as Lecturer in Veterinary and Medical Infectious Diseases at Murdoch University.

David Marks has been in the poultry industry for all of his profession life after graduating as a BVSc 40 odd years ago.
He often describes himself as a veterinarian by profession, a poultry veterinarian by accident, and a field veterinarian by choice.
He has worked in the poultry industry for all his professional career, starting off as an employed veterinarian with Australian and New Zealand, and then starting his own consulting business over 15 years ago.
Most of his work is in East and South East Asia and the Pacific and involves technical consulting and project work to integrators, feed companies, supply companies and funding agencies.
Antibiotic stewardship is a key theme.

Dr. Alison Leary graduated from the University of New England in Australia with a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in the area of animal physiology and nutrition and continued to complete a PhD on “Factors affecting egg and egg shell quality in various strains of the laying hen”. She also achieved her Masters in Business Administration in 2004 and has 20 years’ experience in the animal feed industry, with 12 of those years spent travelling and living in Asia. Throughout much of her career Dr. Leary has worked within the poultry industry and more recently in the pig and dairy industries.