What a great way to celebrate a successful year of crop science across the Godwin, Hickey, Crisp, Massel and Smith labs at UQ! We also discovered that Samir Alahmad is a lawn bowls super star…

So proud of our amazing graduates! I think we set a new record with 5 PhD graduates and 1 Masters associated with the Hickey Lab! Congrats to Yasmine Lam, Dipika Roy, Asad Amin, Seema Yadav, Amy Mackenzie and Maggie Zhang

We are recruiting a Centre Manager for ARC Training Centre in Predictive Breeding led by The University of Queensland. If you have partnership experience and looking for a new leadership opportunity, this could be the position for you! Apply by 10th Jan linkedin.com/jobs/view/3785…

PhD student Stephanie Brunner presenting her barley stay-green research at the German Plant Breeding Conference last week TheorApplGenet paper coming soon!

We are pretty excited about these mungbean plants! Why? They have been bred using our AI-guided breeding platform to stack haplotypes across the genome to increase seed size Lines will be distributed to breeders around the world as part of our ⁦ACIAR⁩ project

New TheorApplGenet paper reveals positive genetic correlations between stay-green and barley yield across multiple environments; highlighting the potential as a future breeding target Huge thanks to our collaborators InterGrain & congrats to Stephanie Brunner on her first paper!

Our article “Satellite-enabled enviromics to enhance crop improvement” features on the cover of the new issue of Molecular Plant! 🌾 🌎 🛰️ Check it out here: cell.com/molecular-plan…

Are you interested in building a career in crop quantitative genetics? A unique opportunity for a Postdoctoral/Research Fellow to further develop their expertise and research profile. Develop and apply innovative AI-guided breeding methods! Apply here: seek.com.au/job/76398148

Do you want to coordinate the design, development, and delivery of world-class training opportunities for #nextgen plant and animal breeders? Then apply to be the Training Coordinator, based within QLD Alliance for Agriculture & Food Innovation UQ, for our exciting new Australian Research Council Training Centre spanning 5

We’re excited to launch an Expression of Interest (EOI) form to allow you to apply for a PhD studentship or postdoctoral researcher position within the Australian Research Council Training Centre in Predictive Breeding. With 40 PhD and postdoc projects available across five Australian

A genome-wide atlas of rust resistance loci in wheat! A summary of QTL/genes for the three rusts from 170 publications over two decades. We positioned 920 loci across 21 chromosomes based on the latest reference genome Check it out in TheorApplGenet: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

In 2018, we published multi-crop speed breeding protocols in Nature Plants and today the article has attracted 1,000 citations! Congrats to all involved across UQ, John Innes Centre, our collaborators and particularly Brande Wulff, Sreya Ghosh and Amy Watson rdcu.be/dNv4T

Now online! Study by Yichen Kang explored the relationship between seminal root angle and root architecture in durum wheat Root angle associated with differences in allocation of roots at different depths but not aboveground traits or total root biomass doi.org/10.1002/fes3.5…

Dr Samir Alahmad QLD Alliance for Agriculture & Food Innovation discusses Using drones to predict the hidden half of barley Hickey Lab Australian Research Council UQ News CSIRO InterGrain #ABTS2024 #barley

Planning an exciting PhD project with Warwick Stiller and Warren Conaty from the CSIRO cotton breeding team

Centre Director Professor Lee Hickey will be presenting at the 11th International Conference on Legume Genetics and Genomics (ICLGG) tomorrow at 9:30AM. His keynote presentation, "Advancing predictive breeding methods and capacity building to develop future pulse crops" will

Our latest paper explores the potential to harness haplotypes conferring multiple disease resistance in wheat breeding Check it out in TheorApplGenet: rdcu.be/d1IoV Congratulations to PhD student Jingyang Tong!

I'm looking for a new PhD student to work with industry to advance predictive breeding methods Project team includes myself, Dr Hannah Robinson and Dr Allan Rattey in partnership with InterGrain ➡️bit.ly/3Vl7K27

Congrats to the Hickey Lab Awardees for 2024! Best Paper: Jingyang Tong for his two articles in TheorApplGenet: rdcu.be/d3ncL rdcu.be/d3ncM Best Presentation: Samir Alahmad for his talk "UAV phenotyping to predict the hidden half of barley" at PAG

This morning I will provide an overview of the opportunities to apply AI in plant breeding… of course nothing to worry about! 😆 Promising results include phenotyping, prediction and parent selection Genomics-Assisted Breeding Workshop 11:30am, Town and Country #PAG32