SCRC: SCRC Honours Scholarship H4.2 Australian Farmed Prawns:B2B and B2C: A gender comparison of perceptions of relationship marketing (Dr Leone Cameron; Student Hannah O'Brien)
SCRC: SCRC Honours Scholarship H4.1 Sustaining Australia’s aquaculture competitiveness by developing technological advances in genetics: Discovery of functional genes for commercial traits.(Abigail Elizur; Student Nicole Ertl)
SCRC: Masters M3.1 Nutritional Genomics and its Application to Aquaculture (Prof Abigail Elizur; Student Linda Moss)
The project aims to address the question: Can different aquaculture diets be assessed and evaluated by examining the expression profiles on known (or newly discovered) candidate genes that are responsible for, or associated with, the digestion and absorption of diet components.
Nutrition is a key significant consideration in aquaculture operations and absorption of molecular components of feed is the main factor contributing to nutrition in fish. An innovative alternative to feed trials is the use of nutritional genomics, where the specific response to the various diet at a gene expression level can potentially predict the quality of the diet and its suitabilty for optimum aquaculture use.
Candidate genes for such studies include genes associated with the digestion and absorption of nutrients i.e. trypsin, aminopeptidase, bile salt-activated lipase, insulin, glucagon and cholecstokinin. This project is expected to also lead to the discovery of a novel suite of genes whose expression is diet dependant, leading to the discovery of suitable markers for diet effectiveness, reducing the necessity and costs of feed trials.
The research done during the project is expected to greatly enhance our knowledge of the molecular processes with feed digestion, absorption and feed development, thus not only offereing an attractive testing alternative to diet development, but also explore the animal's response to different diets.
Seafood CRC: Towards all female Penaeus monodon populations using androgenic gland manipulations
Seafood CRC: genetic technologies to support a transformation to profitability and competitiveness in F. merguiensis and P. monodon
SCRC: Seafood Success – Entrepreneurship & Innovation Program – Seafood CRC Professional Diploma
Very few ideas are turned in commercial successes. A great many of them have potential and significant investment is usually directed to overcoming any technical issues that may be encountered. The resulting innovations still need to be commercialised. It is this commercialisation process that can make the difference between an innovation succeeding or failing. The good news is that there are a number of tools and techniques that can be learned that will increased the chance that an innovation can become a commercial reality.
The Seafood Success program is designed to focus on the commercialisation process - it will comprise seminars and workshops that deal with identifying the business models that are most appropriate for the innovation, the IP arrangements that need to be put in place, the marketing, financial and human resource considerations to name a few of the topics covered.
Participants will learn the skills and apply them to their own innovations and ideas to create a robust business plan that can be used to attract investment, by the SFCRC or others. The program will be self selecting, people with an idea and the enthusiasm and resources to support the development of a business plan will be able to participate. The CRC may also make participation a condition of investment in an innovative product or process.
Final report
One of the original aims of the Seafood CRC was to create opportunities for industry (especially) and research participants to expand their knowledge and to encourage further education opportunities. To enable individuals to take innovative concepts right through to a business plan via an educational process that expanded their horizons with regards to what could be achieved would be ground breaking.
Very few ideas are turned into commercial successes. A great many of them have potential, and significant investment is usually directed to overcoming any technical issues that may be encountered. The resulting innovations still need to be commercialised. It is this commercialisation process that can make the difference between an innovation succeeding or failing. There are a number of tools and techniques that can be learned that will increase the chance that an innovation can become a commercial reality therefore a program focusing on the commercialisation process was required.
The program was delivered in two main formats, an eight month program over eight weekends (producing a business plan) and a four day program focussing more broadly on developing management and decision making skills. The eight month version attracted a smaller more narrowly focussed group of attendees but resulted in slightly higher outcomes in terms of overall satisfaction, impact and stronger ongoing networks, while the shorter version had broader appeal, attracted more attendees and still resulted in high levels of satisfaction and impact (but not as strong ongoing networks).