APSS 2025 Planning Well Underway
With only around 160 days until APSS 2025, organisation of the 36th annual symposium is going extremely well. We have confirmed 11 world-class invited speakers to join us in Sydney next February, presenting on a diverse range of industry-related topics.
Bird Flu: Must-Knows For Backyard Chicken Keepers (And Breeders)
Exhortations to prevent contact with wild birds to avoid avian influenza can be a source of anxiety for chicken keepers. It’s near-impossible to exclude all birds from even an enclosed run and locking up chickens comes with its own risks – overcrowding, stress and exposure to higher manure loads, to name a few.
Assoc. Prof. Sonia Liu wins a prestigious Australian Research Council (ARC) Industry Fellowship
As the adage goes, “Success begets success”. Congratulations to Dr Sonia Liu who has won the ARC Early Career Industry Fellowship. This is on top of her ARC Linkage Project earlier this year worth over a million dollars to examine the use of reduced protein diets in poultry production.
A New Era for the Poultry Research Foundation
We have recently been given the green light to officially become a Research Centre within the University. The transition changes PRF from a Foundation deemed a fundraising body under Australian Consumer Law to a university research entity aligned with the poultry and allied industries. As a result, PRF will retain its name as well as the Industry Council as an advisory body.
Prof Ruth Zadoks – A True Interdisciplinary Scientist of Production Animal Health
At the Poultry Research Foundation (PRF) of The University of Sydney, we are fortunate to have Professor Ruth Zadoks who works across different disciplines and different animal species.
PhD Scholar – Carria Xie
Carria Xie is a first-year PhD candidate, using novel strategies to investigate how energy and amino acid levels affect broiler chicken performance in male and female birds.
APSS 2025
The Australian Poultry Science Symposium is the premier
avian science conference in Australia, attracting delegates
from right across the country and around the world. This
year our conference will focus on an over- arching theme
of “Enhancing productivity through resilience.”
APSS 2024 Concludes with Record-Breaking Numbers
The Australian Poultry Science Symposium (APSS) 2024 wrapped up its program in February with a resounding success, marking a significant milestone for joint coordinators, Poultry Research Foundation – University of Sydney and WPSA – Australian Branch.
Bringing Industry Experience into her PhD: Introducing Jojo Wang
Jojo Mengzhu Wang is a PhD candidate in poultry nutrition at the Poultry Research Foundation (PRF) of The University of Sydney. Jojo completed her Master’s degree in ruminant nutrition from Shihezi University in China in 2016.
The Poultry Research Foundation Welcomes Poultry Veterinarian, Dr Jose Quinteros
Jose is focused on modernising the tools used to prevent infectious viral diseases, such as IBV, as the current prophylactic tools have not been updated in more than 30 years. He also aims to establish a poultry infectious diseases surveillance program to keep track of the constant challenges that arise with the emergence of new pathogens or pathogen variants.