Honours Projects

 Projects for 2011

Research area	Title	Contact
Lipid biochemistry	Can we improve people's omega-3 status without them eating more fish?	Robert Gibson and Beverly Muhlhausler
Healthy Meats	Enzymes from chickens that make healthy fats	Robert Gibson
Grains and Health	Bioactive fats from grains	Robert Gibson
	Function of lipids in flour milled from novel types of bread and durum wheats, and effects of waxy durum flour on de-fatted bread wheat flour	Robert Gibson and Colin Jenner
	Replacement of fat in pastry products with a novel type of durum wheat flour	Robert Gibson and Colin Jenner
Food Allergy	Introduction of solid food into the infant diet: Influence of timing and dose on development of allergy	Imme Penttila
	Can we improve people's omega-3 status without them eating more fish?	Robert Gibson and Beverly Muhlhausler
Growth and Obesity	Maternal junk food feeding and food preferences in the offspring	Beverly Muhlhausler
	Does omega-3 fatty acid supplementation in pregnancy reduce the risk of obesity and diabetes in the offspring?	Beverly Muhlhausler
Fuels from Food Waste	If you are interested in research in this area please contact Robert Gibson	Robert Gibson
Early Life Nutrition	Effect of iodine nutrition on child body composition	Jo Zhou
	Clincal Practice Guidelines for the nutritional management of preterm infants	Carmel Collins
Nutrition and Inflammatory Diseases	If you are interested in research in this area please contact Robert Gibson	Robert Gibson
Nutrient Gene Interactions	Dietary Fatty Acid composition and neonatal outcomes	Beverly Muhlhausler
Food Chain Economics	Vendor Benchmarking for Domestic Feedlots	David Rutley
Pregnancy Nutrition	Does omega-3 fatty acid supplementation in pregnancy reduce the risk of obesity and diabetes in the offspring?	Beverly Muhlhausler
	Dietary Fatty Acid composition and neonatal outcomes	Beverly Muhlhausler
	Iodine nutritional status and risk of cardiovascular disease	Jo Zhou

If you are interested in any of the above projects please contact the primary contact or email Foodplus for more information.

The Poultry CRC also has 35 postgraduate projects, for more information please visit their website.