ANSTO User Meeting 2019

Session

Session 9

2 Dec 2019, 15:30

Muse

92. Lipid Self-assembly in Digesting Milk-like Emulsions

Andrew Clulow (Monash University)

02/12/2019, 15:30

Food, pharmaceuticals and radiotherapy

Oral

Milk is nature’s emulsion for delivering fats and fat-soluble nutrients to infants and remains a mainstay of the adult diet thereafter for many. The milk fat globules that deliver these nutrients comprise 98% triglycerides with 400 unique acyl chains esterified onto the glycerol backbones, resulting in thousands of possible unique triglycerides.[1] Digestion of triglycerides into...

79. Using nuclear techniques to investigate the plant absorption and mobility of foliar applied zinc

Casey Doolette (University of South Australia)

02/12/2019, 15:45

Food, pharmaceuticals and radiotherapy

Oral

In this agricultural focused study, we accessed ANSTO’s Open Pool Australian Lightwater (OPAL) reactor and Australian Synchrotron (AS) to investigate the efficacy of new fertiliser products. As well as accessing these facilities, we also used multiple ANSTO Research Capabilities (Sydney) to investigate the behaviour of these fertilisers in live plants; specifically, the Vivarium; Radiobiology...

49. Nuclear techniques for combating food fraud and authenticating quality

Prof. Neil Saintilan (Macquarie University)

02/12/2019, 16:00

Food, pharmaceuticals and radiotherapy

Oral

According to World Health Organisation of the United Nations, approximately 600 million people are affected by food contamination, which leads to around 420,000 deaths per year. Human health has been placed at risk by the presence of pathogens and other chemical substances found in food. Australia is one of the leading importers and exporters in the Australasian region. However, importing and...

61. Gamma irradiated vaccines: concepts and applications

Mohammed Alsharifi (The University of Adelaide)

02/12/2019, 16:15

Food, pharmaceuticals and radiotherapy

Oral

Gamma irradiation has widely been used to inactivate highly dangerous pathogens such as the Ebola virus and anthrax spores from Bacillus anthracis. It has also been used as an inactivation method to create whole “killed” bacterial or viral vaccines that induce broader spectrum immunity compared to vaccines inactivated by either chemical or other physical means. We have previously reported the...