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CSIRO, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, is Australia's national science agency and one of the largest and most diverse research agencies in the world.
Large-scale, long-term, multidisciplinary science to address Australia's major national challenges and opportunities.
CSIRO expertise is organised into 14 research areas
CSIRO manages national facilities and collections that are opened to researchers around Australia and overseas.
On 1 November 2012, Australia received an important boost in the fight against Hendra virus with the introduction of Equivac® HeV vaccine.
On 1 July 2012 we formed the new Division of Animal, Food and Health Sciences, joining our capability in the Divisions of Livestock Industries and Food & Nutritional Sciences.
Australian scientists have discovered a new virus in bats that could help shed light on how Hendra and Nipah viruses cause disease and death in animals and humans.
Scientists from four Australian institutions have started a new research collaboration to help fight the emerging obesity epidemic that costs Australia $8 billion per year.
- We are helping to improve the health and wellbeing of Australians by assisting the food industry in bringing foods with substantiated and functional health benefits to the market.
- We work to protect and increase the efficiency of livestock and food production systems and to assure the safety, quality and sustainability of Australian foods.
- We are helping to transform the way food is processed, using sustainable, efficient and innovative practices better suited to a resource-constrained world.
- We protect the health of Australia's people, animals, environment and trade through our research to detect and control infectious diseases.
- Our collaborative research is driving productivity gains in Australia’s northern cattle and southern sheep enterprises.
- We are working to ensure that livestock production is managed ethically, using practices that reduce diseases, stress and pain in farm animals.
Meet some of our people who work at Animal, Food and Health Sciences.
Professor Martin Cole is Chief of the CSIRO Division of Animal, Food and Health Sciences.
Dr Chris Prideaux is the author of numerous articles, conference papers and three international patents covering various areas of vaccine development.
Dr Greg Harper is External Engagement Director for CSIRO Animal, Food and Health Sciences, with responsibility for external relationships, technology commercialisation and delivery.
Professor Manny Noakes is a key member of CSIRO's research team looking at diet, nutrition and health.She is the leader of the research team that developed the Total Wellbeing Diet, a scientifically proven approach to wellbeing and weight loss. Meet one of the key research scientists behind the development of the Total Wellbeing Diet.
Dr David Topping’s current research interest is the potential benefits of processed foods, such as dietary carbohydrates (fibre, resistant starch and oligosaccharides), probiotics and dietary fats, for gut health.
Dr Deborah Middleton is a registered specialist in veterinary pathology. She is working to protect Australia against animal and zoonotic diseases (those that can pass from animals to people).
Dr Kari Gobius leads a team that conducts scientific research on food safety, consumer acceptance and consumption of food and the effects of nutrition on genetic health.
Dr Ed Charmley is leading CSIRO's research to improve productivity and environmental outcomes for the northern Australian beef industry.
Dr Mary Ann Augustin is building on her extensive experience as a food chemist to create the next generation of healthy and sustainably processed foods.
Dr Ian Purvis is a quantitative geneticist with a close involvement in sheep breeding programs in Australia and overseas. Australia’s Merino wool production is improved by new technologies and genetics research.
Dr Gene Wijffels is a protein chemist with expertise in protein interactions, vaccine development and immunology.
Dr Phil Hendry leads the Genomics Program within CSIRO Food and Nutritional Sciences Division, as well as projects in molecular microbiology for the Energy Transformed and Wealth from Oceans Flagships.
CSIRO has state-of-the-art biological and chemical laboratories at the Riverside Corporate Park in North Ryde.
Research partnerships such as those at the Queensland Bioscience Precinct will provide solutions to the major problems facing the nation and the world.
Research at CSIRO's Adelaide laboratories covers a broad range of research and development including food, nutrition, diagnostics, biosensor research and preventative health.
The Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL) plays a vital role in maintaining the health of Australia’s livestock, aquaculture species and wildlife.
CSIRO's research within the Health and Food Sciences Precinct at Coopers Plains is focused on the improvement of seafood, meat and horticulture products.
Research at FD McMaster Laboratory develops tools for breeders of sheep and cattle to optimise profitability, livestock welfare and on-farm decision support systems, resulting in more efficient animals and better management practices. CSIRO’s FD McMaster Laboratory conducts research to optimise profitability, livestock welfare and on-farm decision support systems.
The Centre for Environment and Life Sciences draws together the capabilities of seven CSIRO research areas to provide solutions to environmental management problems and to improve the health of Australians.
Research at CSIRO's Werribee site is focused on food processing.
CSIRO and James Cook University (JCU) are working together, creating a world class research hub at the Australian Tropical Sciences and Innovation Precinct (ATSIP) at JCU's Townsville campus.
CSIRO's Lansdown Research Station in tropical Queensland facilitates scientific research to improve the productivity and sustainability of the northern Australian beef industry.
Find out about CSIRO's Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL), its roles, responsibilities and specialised infrastructure.
CSIRO's Food Manufacturing Pilot Plant is a unique national facility with access to significant expertise and innovative technologies for the food industry.
The specialised biosecurity infrastructure at CSIRO's Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL) is available to the international research community for working with pathogens that require the highest levels of containment.
The CSIRO nutrition clinic’s research addresses the nutritional aspects and genetic determinants of some of Australia’s major health concerns. CSIRO’s nutrition trials using volunteers provide a better understanding of the role of foods and food components in a healthy diet and can lead to changes in intake recommendations or industry practices.
The genes of long-living and virus resistant bats may provide clues to the future treatment and prevention of infectious diseases and cancer in people, researchers have found.
An international collaborative partnership has developed a vaccine to combat one of Australia’s most lethal viruses.
This course will provide participants with necessary skills to design a safe and commercially viable thermal schedule for the processing of low-acid food products in cans, pouches and other hermetically sealed packaging. Participants who successfully pass the examinations will be authorised to submit new thermal process schedules for approval by Australian Quarantine Inspection Service (AQIS).
The 2012 international nonthermal food processing workshop provided food manufacturers with the chance to learn more about innovative processes for sustainable, safe and healthy foods.
CSIRO scientists have discovered how mosquitoes develop viral immunity, potentially leading to improved vaccines, and other control measures, for mosquito-borne viruses such as dengue and West Nile.
Scientists from four Australian institutions have started a new research collaboration to help fight the emerging obesity epidemic that costs Australia $8 billion per year, as well as help boost the metabolic efficiency in livestock – a key trait in the $16 billion beef and sheep meat industry.
A new, low-cost DNA test to verify sheep parentage could soon help breeders worldwide to record accurate pedigrees and maximise the genetic potential of their flock.
We held a workshop for food manufacturers in Werribee, Victoria, on high pressure processing (HPP) of meat and seafood products. It featured technical background, the technology's advantages, an HPP demonstration in our food processing pilot plant and innovation opportunities.
CSIRO's Total Wellbeing Diet has now been produced as a book - published by Penguin - chock full of delectable recipes for a weight loss program that is successful and provides the nutrients required for health and vitality.
A discovery by CSIRO scientists has been central to the development of an accurate DNA test that may help the Australian cattle industry end the painful practice of dehorning beef cattle.
Innovative Australian fruit juices developed with CSIRO won at the prestigious Beverage Innovation Awards in Germany in 2009.
We collaborate with the sheep and wool industry to develop alternatives to mulesing, including breeding sheep that are genetically resistant to breech flystrike.
Adopting a broad definition of sustainability, CSIRO is researching a number of different areas where the Australian meat industry could become more efficient.
The Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL) is a front line defence – helping to protect Australia from the threat of exotic and emerging animal diseases.
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Animal, Food and Health Sciences
Phone: +61 7 3214 2960
Alt Phone: +61 4 6773 6671
Email: John.M.Smith@csiro.au
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