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Industry Research Fellow @QAAFI @AdvanceQLD; Plant breeding and genetics, pathology, biotechnology; Harry Potter | 🇵🇭🇦🇺👨🏼‍🔬💻🧬📊📈🔬🔮🌱🌾🦠⚡️|

[Lee Hickey @DrHikov]

What if we could breed crops for entire farming SYSTEMS, not just individual performance?

Our new preprint explores "legacy effects" - how one crop's genetics influence the next crop in rotation.

The results surprised us! 🧵

[Lee Hickey @DrHikov]

Join the UQ AI-Guided Crop Breeding Team as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Crop Quantitative Genetics. Help shape the future of agriculture with genomics, AI & speed breeding!

Apply now 👉 https://t.co/DcSGfuTKgi

[Lee Hickey @DrHikov]

Our latest paper explores the potential to harness haplotypes conferring multiple disease resistance in wheat breeding

Check it out in @TheorApplGenet: https://t.co/KAZD2xlrzd

Congratulations to PhD student Jingyang Tong!

[Lee Hickey @DrHikov]

My first tri-societies meeting, and what an experience! Got lost trying to find my symposium room. Ended up doing laps around the convention centre in San Antonio (wishing Stava logged it).
What a massive meeting and powerhouse of crop, agronomy and soil researchers in the USA!

[Lee Hickey @DrHikov]

Cheers to a successful mungbean breeders workshop!

[Kallee @Kallee]

Rooms to mimic rainforests or deserts, the capacity to control the light, temp, humidity and CO2, I got an exclusive tour behind the scenes brand new Plant Future Facility at UQ the most precise lab of its kind in the southern hemisphere @QAAFI @UQ_News https://t.co/VU08Rh8Sxu

[Zerihun Tadesse🌱🍞 @Zerihun_Wheat]

EXCITING TIMES AHEAD FOR PREDICTIVE AGRICULTURE! 👏🌾

Great to see AI-guided FastStack haplotype wheat in the field. They perform well. Great job from @UQ_News
@QAAFI @BreedersPlant @DrHikov @eric_uq 👏👏 .....loading to @CIMMYT

[Murdoch's Centre for Crop & Food Innovation & SABC @MU_CCFI_Biotech]

And wrapping up the final plenary session of #IWCPerth2024 is Dr Eric Dinglasan from @QAAFIl who shares an overview of the potential offered by AI-guided breeding for wheat genetic improvement.

[Lee Hickey @DrHikov]

Our new paper in @plantgenome highlights the potential of optimal haplotype stacking (OHS), a method that retains useful diversity in breeding populations

Congrats to team incl. Kira Villiers, @KaiV_F, Ben Hayes, @eric_uq & Bertus Jacobs @BreedersPlant
https://t.co/BcWKiqZu3O

[𝙴𝚁𝙸𝙲 @eric_uq]

@MarkBalendres Salamat

[Pacific Seeds @PacificSeeds]

NEWS: A new industry partnership will harness cutting-edge AI technology to improve sorghum breeding for the benefit of Australian growers. Congratulations Dr Eric Dinglasan @eric_uq . We're looking forward to working together with you on this exciting project. #grainsorghum #pacificseeds #agresearch #growingpossibilities

[𝙴𝚁𝙸𝙲 @eric_uq]

Really grateful and excited to receive @AdvanceQld Industry Research Fellowship in partnership with @BreedersPlant @PacificSeeds @UQ_News @QAAFI. Special mention to the QAAFI team: Ben Hayes, @DrHikov @EmmaOmics @SorgGuy Karine Chenu

[AGBT Meeting @agbt]

And we're off... Ben Hayes from @UQ_News takes the stage at @AGBT Ag 2024 to discuss chromosome segment stacking to create ultimate crop and livestock genotypes. #AGBTAg

[GPZ conference 2024 in Geisenheim @GPZconference24]

It’s a wrap. The last day of the conference started with a inspiring keynote of Mark Cooper who revisited the breeders equation followed by some last excellent talks.
Thanks to everyone who joined, you made the conference really exciting!

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@DrHikov 🫣

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@YasmineCan @DrHikov @asps_ozplants @karenmassel @millicent_smith @shanice_vanhaef @QAAFI Epic 😂

[𝙴𝚁𝙸𝙲 @eric_uq]

@TGOTS_Witch @DrHikov Thanks Bron 😎

[𝙴𝚁𝙸𝙲 @eric_uq]

@DrHikov @millicent_smith Awesome 3D modelling 😎

[𝙴𝚁𝙸𝙲 @eric_uq]

@ArcibalBaldwin @bobkemerait @BarleyPathology @LadyFusaria @dielvelasco @BrookeBenz25 @XingWei19 @jobelle_bruno Saya naman! 😀