Public screening of ‘- Six Inches of Soil -‘
Taieri College Performing Arts Centre on 2 August 2024 at 6:00pm.
https://events.humanitix.com/six-inches-of-soil-mosgiel
Resisting antibiotic-resistant bacteria
“…immunology researcher Dr Nils Birkholz said it could also be used in agriculture, to fight plant pathogens in crops.”
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/campus/resisting-antibiotic-resistant-bacteria
Students hungry for new degree
ODT Wednesday, 3 July 2024
Students in a new postgraduate qualification teaching about “farm-to-fork and beyond” are hungry to learn, a Dunedin professor says.
https://www.odt.co.nz/rural-life/rural-life-other/students-hungry-new-degree
AI developed to protect wine industry
As food fraud continues to grow around the world, Otago researchers have begun a ground-breaking project aimed at protecting the New Zealand wine industry from imposters.
University of Otago food science senior lecturer Dr Biniam Kebede is developing an artificial intelligence-powered hyperspectral imaging technique to test wine authenticity and traceability — all without opening the bottle.
Read more here; https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/campus/ai-developed-protect-wine-industry
Back to Adam? The long history of apples
University of Otago agricultural innovation student Aaron Hewson has learned a lot about apples since he started researching one of our favourite fruits.
There is an old English proverb: an apple a day keeps the doctor away. When we walk into a supermarket or go to the farmers market, we might get a choice of 10 different kinds of apples to shoo away that dastardly doctor. Perhaps this seems like a lot of options compared to the single choice of Cavendish banana we get, but it pales in comparison to the 20,000 named apple varieties found throughout the world.
Read here; https://sod.co.nz/2024/06/07/an-introduction-to-apples/
Free-market approaches do not sit well with science
Free markets do not respond well to things that are slow to change – we need to set deep and long-lived national research, science, and technology goals
Read here; https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/06/10/free-market-approaches-do-not-sit-well-with-science/
Submission on “Helping nature and people thrive”
Tackling Food Waste Together: Actions and Innovations [Panel Discussion]
Scientists find new way to make cow’s milk substitute, could have radical effect on New Zealand’s dairy industry
“Precision fermentation of dairy proteins which creates a very easy pathway for creating proteins without using dairy cows,” University of Otago Professor Hugh Campbell explained.
And great comments from Anna Benny, especially on lactoferrin.
Full article here, Scientists find new way to make cow’s milk substitute, could have radical effect on New Zealand’s dairy industry | Newshub
Multicore World XII Conference 17 – 21 February 2025, Christchurch, New Zealand
An initiative of Open Parallel Ltd, Multicore World was conceived with an economic development agenda as part of a quest to make New Zealand a global centre for entrepreneurship based in next generation computing technologies.
For more information visit 12th Edition. 17 – 21 February 2025. Christchurch, NEW ZEALAND (multicore.world)
The flyer can be downloaded from here