The Biotechnology Innovation Festival, the first of its kind to be held in Wagga Wagga, will feature experts from all fields of biotechnology and showcase the innovation and research that is occurring in regional Australia.
“Regional Australia can make a significant contribution to biotechnological research,” said CSU Biomedical Science lecturer, Dr Heather Cavanagh.
“This event will demonstrate the great value of the research, development and commercialisation that is and can be done in the thriving regional centres around the country.”
The festival will feature hands-on displays on the role of biotechnology in today’s world, while CSU staff and students will talk on research areas such as gene therapy, forensic science, DNA technology, plant breeding techniques and new approaches to skin cancer.
Among 17 speakers will be Dr Heather Cavanagh who will detail the meaning and purpose of biotechnology. Other CSU presenters include PhD student Danny Dingwall who will talk about new approaches to gene therapy, Honours student Bronwyn Hoskins on biotechnology of forensic science and fellow Honours student Liz Doust on the development of a vaccine for cervical cancer.
The Biotechnology Innovation Festival, which will be held at the Wagga Wagga City Council Chambers on Friday 10 May, will feature all aspects of biotechnology from medical to veterinary, agricultural and food biotechnology.
Sponsors from national industry bodies such as Biotechnology Australia, the Gene Technology information Service, Centre for the Application of Molecular Biology to International Agriculture, Australian Seed Inoculants Ltd, Rice CRC, the scientific equipment manufacturer Eppendorf and Murrumbidgee Dairy Products are supporting the festival.
More than 100 events will be staged Australia-wide under the Innovation Festival banner – incorporating educational and research institutions, small businesses, innovators, entrepreneurs, Government agencies and commercial organisations.
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