Dr Wendy Muir Wins a Prestigious Teaching Award



by Mingan Choct Dr Wendy Muir, one of my longest serving academic staff members at the PRF, has won the highly competitive, 2024 Faculty of Science Learning & Teaching Award for Student Experience Excellence. This is an award for staff who have excelled in driving a transformational experience for our students. Congratulations, Wendy! Dr Wendy …

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.

Free-Ranging Flock

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.

University of Sydney Logo with Poultry Research Foundation.

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.

Portrait of Carria Xie holding a chick.

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.