AFW Honours Research Plan seminars
- Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2019, 2:15 pm - 4:00 pm
- Location: Charles Hawker Lecture 5 (Room 117)
- Cost: FREE
- Contact: Dr Jo Zhou 83132065
- Email: jo.zhou@adelaide.edu.au
The School of Agriculture, Food and Wine 2019 cohort of honours students will be presenting their research plan seminars on Thursday March 21.
The program is below.
| Time | Student | Project | Primary supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.15pm | Thu Doan | Epigenetic mechanisms involved in intrauterine growth restriction and aberrant kidney development and function | Tina Bianco-Miotto |
| 2.30pm | Jacinta Dockerill | Developing an ecotoxicologically based Salt Index for fertilisers | Mike McLaughlin |
| 2.45pm | Shannon Endersby | Resistance to metribuzin in wild radish (Raphanus raphanistrum) | Chris Preston |
| 3.00pm | Isobel Hume | Remote sensing applications: identifying available land for urban agriculture in Adelaide | Tim Cavagnaro |
| 3.15pm | Alistair McKinnon | The role of biological interactions in nutrient availability and general soil health | Tim Cavagnaro |
| 3.30pm | Bethany Sleep | Application of portable near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy for the determination of soil pH and lime requirement in field for broad-acre agriculture | Luke Mosley |
| 3.45pm | Patrick Timmins | Analysis of added microplastic content in soil samples using mid-infrared spectrometry | Samantha Munroe |