Students

Students are integral to the success of the Training Centre. Each student will have opportunities to work with industry partners and will be supported by comprehensive training and mentoring.

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Edward Asare

Improving chickpea productivity by enhancing resistance to soil acidity 

Paolo Balahadia

Ciara Danes

Lucy Darragh

Framing the Future Harvest: Dynamics and Discourse in Agricultural Biotechnology 

Piyumal Demotte

Machine Learning for epistatic detection and crop phenotype prediction 

Audrey Henry

A synergistic Indigenous Knowledges approach to Responsible and Inclusive Innovation in crop science research practice 

Michail Sergeev Ivanov

The Island Mentality of a Tall Poppy: Toward Coexistence, Confidence and Cooperation in the Regulation of Australia’s Genetically Modified Crops 

Benjamin Suleman Kurya

Use of gene editing to introduce agronomically desirable traits in barley 

Xiaoce Mary Ma

Mohammad Arslan Mahmood

Sadia Majeed

Unlocking the Hidden Power of Photosynthesis in Canola 

Ebtihal Mohamed

Asma Zia Muhammad Hanif

Tiny tech, robust harvest: Developing nanotechnology enabled CRISPR gene editing in Chickpea 

Olalekan Musa Amoo

Developing Novel Herbicide-Tolerant Wheat Cultivars Through Genome Editing and EMS Mutagenesis 

Chairunisa (Nyssa)

Samuel James Nix

Elucidating Cyclic Electron Flow to Improve Photosynthesis in C₄ Crops 

Jamie Piroe

Zuzana Plšková

Reshma Roy

 Unlocking the Potential of Brassica carinata – A Super Crop for the Future  

Alex Seward

Qiwei Shen

Novel Field-based Phenotyping Methods for Trait Evaluation 

Rita Tam

Genome biology and virulence evolution of wheat stripe rust fungi 

Hong Ting (Natalie) Tsang

Rebeccah Tyrrell

Christina Wenzl

Envisioning the Future of Foods: The Intersections of Sustainability, Gene Technologies and Consumer Food Values in Australia 

Ava Wilkinson

Transforming Markets for Future Crop Technologies 

Yiting Xie

Individual-Plant Level Flowering Prediction in Wheat and Canola Biotechnology Field Trials via Automated Machine Vision Approaches

Yu-Wen (Cara) Huang

Investigating the Role of mTERF Proteins in Fertility Restoration in crops

Graduated Students