Annual Walsh Fellowships Seminar
RDS, Dublin, Wednesday, 11 November 2009
Innovation
This year the Seminar had a theme – “The Walsh Fellowship Scheme’s contribution to Innovation” and the Guest Speaker on the day was Ms. Damini Kumar of NUI Maynooth and Ireland’s ambassador for the “European Year of Creativity and Innovation”.
The initiative of selecting this theme for the 2009 Walsh Fellowship Seminar was to encourage and support innovation across Teagasc. As an applied research organisation, we want to encourage our Walsh Fellows to consider not only the new knowledge, technologies or practices that are generated from their research but also to reflect on which of our stakeholders or clients will use these outputs, how the outputs will be transferred to the stakeholders or clients and the benefits our stakeholders and clients will get from using these outputs.
In doing so, the Walsh Fellows will be actively contributing to Teagasc’s mission “to support science-based innovation in the agri-food sector and wider bio-economy that will underpin their profitability, competitiveness and sustainability”.
We understand innovation to be the creative exploitation of new and existing knowledge and ideas. This can take many forms. For example, innovation may consist of either doing new and better things or doing existing things in new and better ways. In essence, innovation is about putting knowledge, technologies and practices into use in such ways that our stakeholders and clients benefit from them.
Walsh Fellowship Abstracts 2009
Conference programme
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 09.20 | Welcome by Dr. Tony Scott, President, RDS |
| 09.30 | Opening by Prof. Patrick Fottrell, Chairman of Research Committee, Teagasc Authority |
| Morning Session Chair: Dr. Tony Scott, President, RDS |
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| FOOD | |
| 09.40 | New rapid sample preparation approach for veterinary drug residue analysis Brian Kinsella Supervisors: Dr. A. Furey,CIT, Prof S. Lehotay, USDA, Dr. M. Danaher, Ashtown Food Research Centre |
| 09.55 | Quality evaluation of pre-sliced pork and turkey hams on image and colour and textural features Abdullah Iqbal Supervisors: Prof. Da-Wen Sun, UCD and Dr. P. Allen, Ashtown Food Research Centre |
| 10.10 | Biocontrol of Escherichia coli O157:H7: Evaluation of two anti-E coli O157:H7 Bacteriophage in the cattle rumen Brid Coffey Supervisors: Dr. A. Coffey, CIT, Prof P. Ross and Dr. O. McAuliffe, Moorepark Food Research Centre; Dr. L. Rivas, Dr M.J. McDonnell and Dr. G. Duffy, Ashtown Food Research Centre |
| 10.25 |
Effect of buttermilk samples produced under different conditions on growth of SW480 human colon cancer cells and FHC human colon normal mucosa cells. Anna Kutcha Supervisors: Dr R. Devery, DCU; Dr B.Murray, Dr C. Stanton and Dr. P. Kelly, Moorepark Food Research Centre |
| 10.40 | Introduction to Posters |
| 10.50 | Tea/Coffee & Poster Viewing |
| ANIMAL AND GRASSLAND | |
| 11.45 |
Effects of dietary n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid on bovine endometrial gene expression Gerard Coyne Supervisors: Dr D.A. Kenny, UCD; Dr. D.G. Morris, Animal Production Centre, Athenry; and Dr. Sinead Waters, Animal Bioscience Centre. |
| 12.00 |
Production, feed efficiency and grazing behaviour of Holstein-Friesian, Jersey and their F1 cross Rob Prenderville Supervisors: Dr. K. Pierce, UCD; Dr. F. Buckley, Moorepark Dairy Production Centre |
| 12.15 |
A study of the somatic cell count (SCC) of Irish milk from herd management and environmental perspectives Patrick Kelly Supervisors: Prof. S.J. More, UCD; Dr. B. O’Brein and Dr. D. Berry, Moorepark Dairy Production Centre |
| 12.30 |
Influence of increasing feed allowance for sows during gestation on skeletal muscle of offspring Louise McNamara Supervisors: Prof. N. Stickland, Royal Vet. College; P.G. Lawlor, Pig Production Development Unit, Moorepark; Dr. L. Giblin, Moorepark Food Research Centre. |
| 12.45 | Lunch |
| Afternoon Session Chair: Mr. Jim Flanagan , Chairman, RDS Committee of Agriculture & Rural Affairs |
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| 13.45 | GUEST SPEAKER: Ms. Damini Kumar, Programme Director of Product Design European Ambassador of Creativity & Innovation, NUI Maynooth View presentation (195KB PDF Format) |
| CROPS, ENVIRONMENT & ECONOMICS | |
| 14.15 |
The role of soil type and condition in the fate and transport of landspread microbial enteropatogens Fiona Brennan Supervisors: Prof. V. O’Flaherty NUIG; Dr. K. Richards, Johnstown Castle Research Centre. |
| 14.30 |
Identifying and understand factors influencing the intention to convert to organic drystock farming Doris Läpple Supervisors: Dr. T. Van Rensburg, NUIG; Mr. T. Donnellan, Rural Economy Research Centre. |
| 14.45 |
Sequence based characterisation of the Gpa4 locus conferring resistance to PCN in potato Marialaura Destefanis, Supervisors: Dr P. Jones, UCC; Dr. G. Bryan, SCRI: Dr D. Griffin and Dr. D. Milbourne, Oak Park Research Centre |
| 15.00 | Introduction to Posters |
| 15.10 | Reception |
| Concluding Session Chair: Prof. Gerry Boyle, Director of Teagasc |
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| 15.40 |
Announcement of Award Winner by Judging Panel. Presentation of RDS Medal, Teagasc prize and IOBI Certificates by Dr. Damini Kumar |
| 16.10 | Concluding remark (Prof. Gerry Boyle) |
Walsh Fellowship Abstracts
View abstracts here (1.9MB PDF Format)
This year’s Walsh Fellow best presentation winner of the RDS medal was Brid Coffey, a student at the Teagasc Moorepark Food Research Centre. She received the award for her research work and paper on Biocontrol of Escherichia coli O157:H7: Evaluation of two anti-E coli O157:H7 Bacteriophage in the cattle rumen. Brid is from Caherciveen, Co. Kerry.
The winner of the best poster was Paul Sullivan, a student at Teagasc Ashtown Food Research Centre. His poster was on Enhancing the nutritive aspects of wheat bread through the inclusion of milled barley fractions.
Previous Winners
Winner of the Young Researcher of the Year 2007
The 2007 winner of the annual Walsh Fellowship award was Lisa Costello, a Walsh Fellow working at the Teagasc Animal Production Research Centre, Athenry and at the Physiology Department in the National University of Ireland, Galway. She received the award for her research work on early embryo loss in cattle, looking at the influence of the protein environment of the pre-implantation embryo during the oestrous cycle. Lisa is pictured with (background, from left) Professor Patrick Cunningham, Chief Scientific Adviser to the Government (keynote Speaker at the seminar); and, Professor Gerry Boyle, Director, Teagasc.
Winner of the Young Researcher of the Year 2006
The 2006 winner of the Young Researcher of the Year was Kaushal Kothari. He completed his project at Teagasc’s Moorepark Research Centre in Co Cork. The project studied the effects of advanced high-pressure processing technologies on cheese and natural yoghurt.
Kaushal, comes from Anand on the West coast of India, holds a primary degree in Dairy Science and a Masters from Nottingham University in England.
Winner of the Young Researcher of the Year 2005
Winner of the Young Researcher of the Year 2005 at the Walsh Fellowships Seminar was Sean Fair, Athenry Research Centre, seen below with the director of Teagasc, Jim Flanagan, David Cornwall, RDS and Dr Tony Scott, RDS.
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