33rd Annual Australian Poultry Science Symposium

Richard Eckard, The University of Melbourne

 

Richard Eckard is Professor of Sustainable Agriculture at the University of Melbourne and Director of the Primary Industries Climate Challenges Centre (www.piccc.org.au), a research centre addressing the impacts of a changing climate on agriculture. His research focuses on sustainable agricultural production, with a recent focus on carbon neutral agriculture and options for agriculture to respond to a changing climate.

Richard developed the first greenhouse gas accounting tools for agriculture with his research and expertise provided the science basis for the development of six carbon offset methods in Australia.

He is a science advisor to the Australian, New Zealand (MPI, NZAGRC) and UK (ADAS) governments, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), UN FAO and EU (ERA-GAS and ERA-NET), on climate change adaptation, mitigation research and policy development in agriculture. He is a network leader in the Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gasses. He is a member of the newly formed Victorian Agriculture and Climate Change Council and sits on numerous government and industry advisory committees.

Richard has published over 150 peer reviewed papers, with 80 peer-reviewed papers, 7 book chapters, and 140 conference papers on climate change, carbon farming and agriculture since 2010.

Amy Moss, University Of New England

 

Dr. Moss is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of New England researching nutritional strategies to improve the efficiency and sustainability of poultry production.

Balachandar Jayaraman, Evonik (SEA) Pte. Ltd.

 

Balachandar Jayaraman he has been working as Technical Service Manager (Monogastric Nutrition) in Evonik (SEA) Pte. Ltd, Singapore – since March 2017. He has a Bachelors in Veterinary Science as is passionate about research in animal nutrition and the transfer of knowledge for the development and sustainability of Poultry and swine production.

David Cadogan / Feedworks

Ian Godwin / The University Of Queensland

Mukti Barua / Massey University

 

Mukti Barua is a PhD candidate at the Monogastric Research Centre, Massey University, New Zealand. She is investigating the age influence on amino acid digestibility of various feedstuffs in broiler. Mukti is a highly motivated early-career researcher with an immense research interest in poultry nutrition and diseases. She has 8 years of experience in poultry research and published some of her findings in peer-reviewed journals. Mukti holds a bachelor degree in Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and a master’s in Animal Science from Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Bangladesh. She has been teaching at the same university since 2015.

Mahmoud Khalil / Massey University

 

Mahmoud Khalil, from Egypt, works as Assistant Lecturer at Faculty of Agriculture, Benha ‎University. Completed his Master’s degree from University of Western Australia. Awardee ‎of New Zealand Government Scholarship. His PhD project is funded by AgriFuture ‎Chicken Meat Australia. His PhD research project focuses on “Energy utilisation of feed ‎ingredients for broiler chickens”.

Mehdi Toghyani / Poultry Research Foundation,The University of Sydney

 

Dr Toghyani is a research fellow in poultry nutrition at Sydney University, and has over 10 years of experience in poultry nutrition research and practical feed formulation. His current research interests are evaluation and optimization of energy and amino acids requirements in both meat chicken and layer hens, and nutritional evaluation of alternative feed ingredients to improve efficiency and sustainability of poultry production.

Reza Barekatain / SARDI

 

Dr. Reza Barekatain is a Research Scientist within the SARDI Pigs and Poultry research program and an affiliate Senior Lecturer with the University of Adelaide. Reza holds a PhD in poultry nutrition from the University of New England, Australia. Reza has so far published around 36 peer-reviewed journal papers in addition to several papers in conference proceedings and a book chapter. His research interests and expertise are at the interface of nutrition and gut health with special focus on intestinal barrier function and digestive physiology aiming to improve performance, productivity and disease resilience in poultry.

Peter Selle / Poultry Research Foundation

 

Peter Selle was awarded his PhD in 2001 many years after graduating as a veterinarian. Peter joined the Poultry Research Foundation within the University of Sydney the following year and was subsequently appointed Adjunct Associate Professor. Since 1999, Peter has published over 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals, several book chapters and has been made numerous presentations at international and local conferences. Peter’s interests include dietary phytate and exogenous phytase, sorghum as a feed grain for chicken-meat production, whole grain feeding, starch and protein digestive dynamics and reduced-crude protein diets for broiler chickens. Sustainable chicken-meat production is the ultimate purpose.

Shemil Macelline / The University of Sydney

 

Shemil Priyan Macelline is a Ph.D. student in poultry science at The University of Sydney. He did his bachelor’s degree at the Uva Wellassa University of Sri Lanka in Animal Science and graduated in 2015. Moreover, he completed his master’s degree at Chungnam National University in South Korea in monogastric nutrition in 2019. He started his Ph.D. in 2019 and his research interests are more concentrated on amino acid requirements and starch and protein digestive dynamics in poultry.

Shiva Greenhalgh / The University Of Sydney

 

Shiva is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney where she is studying reduced crude protein diets in broilers, specifically looking at amino acid utilisation. Shiva holds a master’s in animal nutrition from the University of Sydney, a bachelor of science (zoology) from Western Sydney University and a bachelor of arts from the Australian National University. Shiva is a registered animal nutritionist with a strong working background in companion animal nutrition.

Asad Ali Khaskheli / The University of Queensland

 

Mr. Asad Ali is from Pakistan. He is working as a HDR student in Roura Group at the University of Queensland. His field of research is poultry nutrition. He has published 19 Scopus and 35 non-Scopus papers. Mr. Ali is a Chancellor’s Gold Medallist for securing faculty top positions in MPhil and bachelor’s degrees.