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Held every year on 21 May, UNESCO leads the celebration of World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development highlighting not only the richness of the world’s cultures, but also the essential role of intercultural dialogue for achieving peace and sustainable development. This year, everyone contributed by bringing a dish from their country andContinue reading “World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development”

On the 5th of August our Centre and MeriSTEM hosted a full day event, giving science students from the ACT and surrounds the chance to take a deep dive into Crop Science and related technologies. From each workshop that was held that day, MeriSTEM has created informative videos and hands-on activities. Each video has aContinue reading “ACT Science Week at ANU”

A huge milestone for the Centre, we have turned 2! With spring we now enter our third year of operation. We have held our second annual meeting which was a fabulous event bringing together almost all of our partners, our students, ECRs, professionals, chief investigators, new Centre affiliates and invited guests from UGM and BRINContinue reading “Centre turns 2!”

Our program, funded by DFAT and the Indonesian government under the KONEKSI initiative, focuses on building climate-resilient crops. We are collaborating with Universitas Gadjah Mada, BRIN (Indonesia), and the International Rice Research Institute (Philippines). The project aims to study the physiology and molecular mechanisms behind drought-tolerant phenotypes of Indonesian rice grown in rain-fed fields inContinue reading “KONEKSI initiative – Australian Workshop”

Thank you to all of our industry partners that have hosted students! We’re seeing great things brought back to the labs that are saving students time in trouble shooting, sharing learnings with others. Ebtihal with Nuseed in Horsham I am very grateful to Nuseed! They helped me with my PhD by offering me a greatContinue reading “Student Placements with our Partners”

By Lauren DuFall, CEO – February 2024 Alex, Hendry, Uli and Lauren visited the Wagga Wagga Agricultural Institute at NSW DPI.Edward Asare (PhD student) is based here and settling in well with the kind support of DPI and Nay Chi Khin (Centre Innovation Fellow). It was wonderful to welcome back Deb Slinger, Director of WWAI.Continue reading “Visit to NSW DPI – Wagga Wagga”

By Julie Leroux – Project Officer – March 2024 Caitlin Byrt, Alison Bentley and Joanna Melonek labs organised a morning tea to celebrate the Internation day of Women and Girls in Science. It was truly gratifying to witness the strong support from fellow scientists. What a successful event! The Training Centre co-hosted a seminar andContinue reading “International Women’s Day – 8 March”

By Mel Pickering – GMO and IP Officer – February 2024 In preparation for all the new machinery arriving at the Rosedale GMO field site, Mel Pickering and Christine Trittermann (from Stu’s lab), attended a Tractoring for Women session at Oakbank on the 22nd February. The session matched Mel and Christine up with an equivalentContinue reading “Tractoring for Women”