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Key Areas of Research within the School

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Many teaching and research staff from the School of Agricultural Science/TIA are experienced in postgraduate supervision and can discuss potential projects. A guide to the discipline areas of some key staff is shown below.

 

Discipline
 Key personnel
 Specific area of expertise
Crop Physiology and Agronomy
 Dr Tina Acuna
 Agronomy

Dr Alistair Gracie
 Horticultural science; seed physiology

Prof Sergey Shabala
 Plant physiology; crop nutrition; stress tolerance and adaptation; cell biology
Crop Protection
 A/Prof Calum Wilson Plant pathology (virology; bacteriology, epidemiology; disease control)

A/Prof Geoff Allen
 Entomology; behaviour; chemical ecology

A/Prof Caroline Mohammed
 Forest ecology and pathology; biosecurity

Dr Karen Barry
 Plant pathology; beneficial fungi; remote sensing

Dr Richard Doyle
 Soil science

Dr Marcus Hardie Soil science and hydrology
Food Safety
 A/Prof Tom Ross
 Predictive microbiology

A/Prof John Bowman
 Proteomics; microarray analysis; genomics; bacterial physiology

Prof Mark Tamplin
 Food security
Pasture and Animal Science
 Dr Aduli Malau-Aduli
 Animal nutrition and genetics; fatty acids metabolism

A/Prof Peter Lane
 Pasture agronomy; nitrogen fixation
Climate Change
 Prof David McNeil
 Plant breeding; new crop development and agronomy