Taieri College Performing Arts Centre on 2 August 2024 at 6:00pm.
https://events.humanitix.com/six-inches-of-soil-mosgiel
Sunday, July 14th, 2024 | buncr79p | No Comments
Taieri College Performing Arts Centre on 2 August 2024 at 6:00pm.
https://events.humanitix.com/six-inches-of-soil-mosgiel
Wednesday, July 10th, 2024 | buncr79p | No Comments
“…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
Tuesday, July 2nd, 2024 | buncr79p | No Comments
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
Tuesday, June 25th, 2024 | buncr79p | No Comments
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
Monday, June 10th, 2024 | buncr79p | No Comments
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/
Monday, June 10th, 2024 | buncr79p | No Comments
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/
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“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
Sunday, May 5th, 2024 | buncr79p | No Comments
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