Professor Hoag interest include analyses and decisions making about issues where agriculture and the environment collide. This includes a cross section of research fields such as policy, production economics, resource economics and regional economics. Current and recent projects include the use of conservation easements, elk and bison management in Yellowstone, United States ground and surface water contamination, manure management, the economic returns to research, gender and risk, sustainability, and non-market valuation in wildlife refuges. He developed the award-winning RightRisk © research and education program for risk management.  He have worked with colleagues and government agencies throughout the United States and in South Africa, Ethiopia, Bolivia, and Australia.

Animal research has been a powerful tool for solving problem and assist producers improve the productivity of their animals, improve the utilisation of available resources, maintain animal health, protect the environment and achieve sustainability. In this presentation I will be shedding light on some success stories from Australia and the problem-solving approach followed by researchers to solve problems in the animal industries and help producers and decision makers overcome the challenges they face.

Dr Al Jassim is a Nutrition Biochemist and Gut Microbiologist who is holding an Honorary Associate Professor position at the Centre of Animal Science, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food
Innovation (QAAFI), The University of Queensland, Australia.
Dr Rafat Al Jassim is an animal scientist with specialisation in Nutrition Biochemistry and Gut
Microbiology and their application to bovine, equine and camel husbandry. He has experience in
nutrition research especially of the ruminant animals. During the past 20 years, the focus of his
research programs was on the impact of commensal gut microorganisms in large animal health and
disease and the role of gut microbial ecology in the nutrition of domesticated and wild herbivores.
Interaction between diet and the microbial community of the intensively managed animals has been of
particular interest. Recent research programs have dealt with variety of topics including the use of
plant extracts to control pathogenic microorganisms such as Campylobacter, isolation of bacteria
with the ability to degrade mimosine and prevent leucaena toxicity, monensin toxicity in camels,
seasonal changes in tropical grass quality and its impact on methane emission and rumen microbiota,
impact of heat stress on rumen microbiota, the development of probiotic bacteria to reduce or prevent
the risk of acidosis in ruminants and the effect of indospicine in camels.
Dr Rafat Al Jassim is a graduate of Baghdad University (BSc Animal Science), the University of
Wales UK (MSc Animal Nutrition) and the University of New South Wales, Australia (PhD Animal
Nutrition). Before joining UQ in 2000, Dr Al Jassim was a Senior Research fellow at the University
of New England (1997-2000), visiting Scientist at Ian Clunies Ross Laboratories CSIRO Sydney
(1995-1997), Associate Professor at Jordan University of Science and Technology (1991-1995), and
Associate Professor at Baghdad University (1985-1991).
Dr Al Jassim has recently retired from The University of Queensland after 16 years of service at
Gatton Campus and 30 years in academia. Read more

 

Jan Delcour received his BSc, MSc and PhD degrees from KU Leuven in Leuven, Belgium. As a NATO research fellow at Kansas State University under the supervision of Dr. R. Carl Hoseney, he was introduced to cereal science and technology, a research area he subsequently developed at the KU Leuven. He is currently a full professor at the same University, where he teaches food chemistry and cereal science and technology courses. His research and that of the team he leads focuses on generating and communicating basic insights into the starch, non-starch polysaccharide, and protein constituents of cereals, as well as on plant and microbial enzyme systems converting such constituents. At the same time, the team focuses on applying such insights in cereal based biotechnological processes with the aim to develop and optimise processes, develop the production of health promoting constituents, and contribute to final product organoleptic properties. Dr. Delcour, who with Dr. Kristin Verbeke is W.K. Kellogg Chair in Cereal Science and Nutrition, has a Methusalem funding status and is the author of more than 700 peer reviewed publications, which have been cited over 24,600 times (ISI web of science) or 37,500 times (google scholar), and (co-)inventor of over 20 patent families. He is co-founder of the KU Leuven spinout Fugeia, with R. Carl Hoseney author of the book “Principles of Cereal Science and Technology” and co-editor of the books “Advances in Enzymes in Grain Processing”, and “Fibre-Rich and Wholegrain Foods: Improving Quality”. He is an ISI highly cited author. His Hirsch index is 81 (ISI web of science) or 99 (google scholar). He is a member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts and the recipient of the William Geddes Memorial Lectureship, the Excellence in Teaching Award, the William Geddes Memorial Award and the Osborne Medal from AACC International. In addition, he received the prestigious Bertebos Prize of the Swedish Royal Academy of Agriculture and Forestry. He is a Fellow of AACC International and the ICC Academy and received the Harald Perten Award from ICC, the International Association for Cereal Science and Technology. He has been President-elect, President and Chairman of the Board of AACC International, and currently serves ICC as its President-elect. He has also been a senior editor of Cereal Chemistry. He is Chairman of LFoRCe, the Leuven Food Science and Nutrition Research Centre and after having served as interim Chairman of the Supervisory Board of EIT Food, he now serves EIT Food as a Supervisory Board member. Jan is a member of the Board of Directors of FWO-Vlaanderen, Foodport and chairs the Boards of the Bio-Incubator Leuven and the companies of the Lindemans Brewery group.

 

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