by Lieke Van Der Hulst | May 27, 2022 | Awards
Waite-based Emeritus Professor Peter Langridge is among 22 Australians recognised for their outstanding contributions to science by being elected Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science. With the addition of 22 new Fellows, the Fellowship now stands at a total of...
by Lieke Van Der Hulst | May 27, 2022 | Campus Notices, Fight Food Waste CRC, Participation
The Fight Food Waste CRC is seeking Expressions of Interest from University of Adelaide researchers interested in supervising a PhD or Masters of Philosophy student in a food waste-related area. Researchers can propose their own project for the student, or select from...
by Lieke Van Der Hulst | May 24, 2022 | News, Research stories
Planting cover crops directly underneath grapevines can help mitigate the effects of climate change and improve land sustainability, research conducted by the University of Adelaide has found. The level of soil organic carbon (SOC) was almost 23 per cent higher in...
by Lieke Van Der Hulst | May 23, 2022 | Campus Notices, CSIRO, News, University of Adelaide
Researchers from the University of Adelaide have developed a trap to help citrus growers (commercial and residential) combat the Citrus Gall Wasp. The trap was developed in collaboration with Citrus SA and commercial partner AgNova. Citrus Gall Wasp (Bruchophagus...
by Lieke Van Der Hulst | May 19, 2022 | Campus Notices
Deathcap mushrooms, Amanita phalloides, have been found in the Waite Arboretum. They are very toxic and the ingestion of even a small amount will cause serious illness and may be fatal. You are advised not to pick or eat any wild mushrooms from the Waite Campus as...
by Lieke Van Der Hulst | May 18, 2022 | News, Research stories
Waite Research Institute wants to congratulate Mario Fruzangohar and his team at the Biometry Hub with their recent publication in GigaScience, “HaploMaker: An improved algorithm for rapid haplotype assembly of genomic sequences”. Researchers from the...
by Lieke Van Der Hulst | May 18, 2022 | Campus Notices, Careers, Students, University of Adelaide
The PhD Scholarship “Finding the missing links in salt and water transport in plants” is fully funded by the University of Adelaide to support a full-time PhD student who is commencing research in the field of Plant Biology. The successful candidate will be working...
by Lieke Van Der Hulst | May 17, 2022 | Participation, Students
The Sensory Groups at the University of Adelaide (Adelaide, SA) and the University of Nottingham (Nottingham, UK) would like to kindly invite you to participate in an Online Survey as a part of the Sustainable Dietary Study. To participate in the survey, you will...
by Lieke Van Der Hulst | May 16, 2022 | News
We are updating the release of our weekly newsletter to Mondays, so you can have a quick look at everything happening on Campus at the start of your week. This means that if you have news to share with your Waite campus colleagues (and other Waite fans) you can send...
by Lieke Van Der Hulst | May 12, 2022 | News
When the destructive bushfires raged through South Australia in late 2019 into early 2020, we did not even contemplate that we would soon be facing a global health pandemic. Front of mind was protecting South Australian lives, livelihoods, pets and possessions. When...
