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Food & Textiles Sections
There are three sections within the Food & Textiles
Group:
Textile Science & Technology
AgResearch Textiles brings leading-edge, state-of-the-art solutions to organisations around the globe - backed by a wealth of experience from its predecessors, Wool Research Organisation of New Zealand (WRONZ) and Canesis Network Ltd.
Section Manager: Dr Peter Ingham
Email:
Phone: +64 3 321 8757
Textile & Material Testing Unit Manager: Lorraine Greer
Email:
Phone: +64 3 321 8680
Food, Metabolism & Microbiology
The Food, Metabolism & Microbiology Section, through
knowledge and intellectual property in biotechnology-based food and nutrition,
will capture opportunities for the pastoral sector from functional, genomics-led
discovery. This will subsequently lead to the creation of new food products
and processes that meet consumer expectations for health and wellbeing,
and command premiums because of their functional and processing properties.
This Section also includes AgResearch MIRINZ-based teams focused on ensuring
quality, consistency, and safety of meat products. The Sections' focus
areas are Food Safety, Food Engineering, Microbiology, Meat Science, and
Nutrition and Metabolism. These operate throughout the entire pastoral
sector value-adding chain from farm to fork, pasture to plate, grass to
glass.
Section Manager: Dr Warren McNabb
Email:
Phone: +64 6 351 8061
Dairy Science & Technology
The Dairy Science & Technology Section focuses on adding value to the pastoral
sector and, in particular, the dairy sector by partnering with industry to discover, isolate and characterise novel
bioactives from milk, animal tissues and other sources and turning these
into high-value market-ready products and optimising operations on-farm and in-plant through novel non-invasive
measurement applications.
Key science capabilities underpinning this strategy
are in functional genomics, proteomics, mammary biology, (innate) immunology,
bioprocessing, toxicology and non-invasive measurement technologies including
X-rays, UV, NIR, ultrasound, imaging and biosensors.
Section Manager: Dr Kerst Stelwagen
Email:
Phone: +64 7 838 5180
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