Invited Speakers
Dr Grant M. Campbell
Satake Centre for Grain Process Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science, The University of Manchester, UK.
Dr Grant Campbell is a Reader in the Satake Centre for Grain Process Engineering at the University of Manchester. His research interests are in wheat flour milling and fractionation, aeration aspects of bread making and other foods, and integrated cereal biorefineries. He organised the international conferences Cereals: Novel Uses and Processes in 1996, Bubbles in Food in 1998 and Bubbles in Food 2: Novelty, Health and Luxury in 2006.
He was awarded the Institution of Chemical Engineer’s Hanson Medal in 2006 for his article “Cereal Potential”, and its Frank Morton Medal for Excellence in Chemical Engineering Education in 2008.
Dr Ravindra N. Chibbar
Department of Plant Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Ravindra (Ravi) Chibbar, is a Professor & Canada Research Chair, Crop Quality (Molecular Biology & Genetics) at the University of Saskatchewan.
His main research interests are to employ molecular biological strategies to improve agronomic performance and grain/seed quality enhancement in cereal crops and grain legumes. His main research is focused to genetically modify carbohydrates in cereal grains and pulses to diversify their utilization. As a part of a Genome Canada project, he has developed genomics tools (Norstar BAC library, wheat consensus genetic maps) to understand and improve abiotic (low-temperature) stress tolerance in cereal crops.
Professor George C. Fahey, Jr.
Kraft Foods Endowed Professor of Nutritional Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA.
George C. Fahey, Jr. is Professor of Animal Sciences and Nutritional Sciences at the University of Illinois. His area of research is comparative nutrition. The primary discipline studied is carbohydrate nutrition to include work on dietary fibres, oligosaccharides, resistant starch, and novel polysaccharides. Species studied include human adults, human infants, dogs, cats, swine, and laboratory rats. An overarching theme of the program is gastrointestinal tract health and the role of carbohydrates in improvement of indices of gut health. Glycemic control and its relationship to diabetes is another major area of study.
Dr Robert P. Anderson
Autoimmunity & transplant Division, Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
Dr Bob Anderson has specialized in the clinical, immunological and pharmaceutical aspects of coeliac disease.
His research uncovered a simple approach to mapping toxic gluten peptides in patients with coeliac disease.
He has translated to development of diagnostics and therapeutics. Bob is a practicing gastroenterologist, a lab head at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Founder, CEO and Director of Nexpep Pty Ltd and also Chairman of the Board of the Coeliac Research Fund Ltd.
Dr David Topping
Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Dr David Topping is a biochemist and currently actively involved in several major CSIRO initiatives including the National Food Futures and Preventative Health National Research Flagships. He has worked in several areas of research including actions of insulin on the liver, smoking and health and the metabolic actions of dietary fibre in the intestinal tract. David is particularly interested in the conduct of basic research and its subsequent application to the development of food products which add value for the manufacturer and improve public health. He is an author of more than 180 papers and 9 patents.
Dr Greg Tanner
Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Greg Tanner is a Principal Research Scientist in the CSIRO Food Futures Flagship, based at Plant Industry in Canberra. His expertise is in plant biotechnology and biochemistry using protein purification techniques to help modify the properties of plants.
Greg currently leads the Coeliac Friendly Cereals project, working on breeding barley with reduced gluten using conventional breeding techniques.
He has published over 36 scientific papers covering a range of food crops and his research has been the subject of six Unites States patents.
Robert Sewell AM FAICD
Wheat Classification Council Australia
Robert has farmed for over 46 years near Wongan Hills in Western Australia. He served on the Grain Pool WA Board for 30 years – 12 as Chairman. He was instrumental in the merger of Grain Pool and CBH, and served on the CBH Group Board for 5 ½ years – 1 ½ as Chairman.
In 2003 he was awarded the Commonwealth Centenary medal for services to Grain Pool and the Community and in 2004 he was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for services to International Marketing and the Grains Industry.
Robert is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (FAICD).
In February 2009 Robert was appointed inaugural Chair of the Wheat Classification Council.