Travel reports

To further their research and to keep abreast of international advances in plant biosecurity, CRC staff and students travel overseas or interstate to conferences, symposia and workshops and to meet with leading specialists in biosecurity fields.

CRC researchers prepare travel reports to share what they learned, the benefits to the CRC and Australia's plant biosecurity. Below are summaries of travel reports from our researchers.

Travel proposal forms can be found in the members' area of our website.

Latest Travel Reports

Title	Researcher	Destination	Date
Collection of smut fungi from northern Western Australia	Mr Alistair McTaggart	Western Australia	May 2009
Search and Detection: Theory and application in disease and wildlife management’	Dr Peter Whittle	Wellington, New Zealand	November 2008
International Plant Protection Convention’s Technical Panel on Diagnostic Protocols	Dr Mallik Malipatil	Washington DC	21 July – 4 August 2010
Fruit Flies of Economic Importance		Valencia, Spain	September 2010
Sharing and learning in the United States	Dr Grant Hamilton	United States	August 2010
Robotic automated pest identity evaluation	Mr Les Zeller	United State	August 2009
International Congress of Plant Pathology	Mr Steven Coventry	Torino, Italy	August 2008
Sudden Oak Death Science Symposium III	Miss Kylie Ireland	Santa Rosa, California	March - 2007
Plant and Animal Genome Conference	Dr David Schlipalius	San Diego	January 2009
IUFRO International Forest Biosecurity Conference	Mrs Amy Carmichael	Rotorua, New Zealand	March 2009
IUFRO Forest Biosecurity Conference & Visiting Collaborators	Miss Kylie Ireland	Rotorua, New Zealand	March 2009
Eighth Australian Banana Industry Congress	Ms Rachel Meldrum	Queensland, Australia	June 2009
Eighth Australian Banana Industry Congress	Mr Andrew Daly	Queensland, Australia	June 2009
Aphid Genome Annotation Workshop	Dr Owain Edwards	Princeton, USA	July 2008
10th International Working Conference on Stored Product Protection	Dr Greg Daglish	Portugal	27 June
10th International Working Conference on Stored Product Protection	Dr YongLin Ren	Portugal	July 2010
PDA workshop in Perth	Mr Les Zeller	Perth, Western Australia	August 2008
Finalising the modelling component using Mathematica® with Dr Moin Salam	Mr Steven Coventry	Perth, Western Australia	July 2009
Canola research meeting	Mr Steven Coventry	Perth	2007 - February
International Fusarium Laboratory Workshop	Dr Lucy Tran-Nguyen	Penang, Malaysia	June 2008
International Fusarium Laboratory Workshop	Ms Rachel Meldrum	Penang, Malaysia	June 2008
EU 7th Framework, PRATIQUE Consortium Bid meeting	Dr Paul De Barro	Paris	March 2007
Quadrilateral (QUAD) Working Group on Exchange of Diagnostic Tools for Plant Pests	Dr Jacek Plazinski	Ottawa, Canada	February 2009
International Plant Protection Convention Expert Working Group Soil and Growing Media	Ms Barbara Hall	Ottawa, Canada	June 2010
United States Department of Agriculture Collaboration	Dr Dean Paini	North Carolina, USA	January 2009
Biosecurity in Australia and New Zealand conference	Mrs Marie Bracks-Burns	New Zealand	2006 - July
Black Rot Eradication Trial	Dr Mark Sosnowski	New York, USA	May 2009
Entomological Society of America conference	Geoff Gurr	Nevada, USA	November 2008
EPPO conference and visits to CSIRO Montpellier and Central Science Laboratories York	Dr Paul De Barro	Montipellier	2006 - October
Research exchange with the Department of Plant Pathology, Minnesota, United States of America	Ms Jenny Vo	Minnesota, USA	June 2009
2008 American Phytopathology Society Centennial Celebration and Annual Conference	Dr Andrew Geering	Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States	August 2008
Eradication meeting in New Zealand	Ms Bobbie Hitchcock	Lincoln, New Zealand	February 2008
International Union of Physiological Sciences congress Kyoto, Japan	Dr Sylwester Chyb	Kyoto, Japan	July 2009
Worming around Japan	Dr Mui-Keng Tan	Japan	July 2010
A beetle biosensor	Dr Kelly Bailey-Hill	Glasgow, Scotland	May - 2010
Australasian Wildlife Management Society	Dr Frith Jarrad	Fremantle, Western Australia	November 2008
Homalodisca vitripennis: a leafhopper of potential economic significance in Australia	Anna Rathe	France	June 2010
International Working Conference on Stored Product Protection	Mr Robert Emery	Estoril, Portugal	June 2010 - July 2010
XXIII International Congress of Entomology	Dr Mark Stevens	Durban, South Africa	July 2008
XXIII International Congress of Entomology	Dr Manoj Nayak	Durban, South Africa	July 2008
Agricultural Economics Society Conference	Dr David Cook	Dublin, Ireland	March 2009
Third International Symposium on the Biological Control of Arthropods	Dr Olivia Reynolds	Christchurch, New Zealand	February 2009
8th International Conference on Controlled Atmospheres and Fumigation in Stored Products	Dr Greg Daglish	Chengdu, China	September 2008
The 8th International Conference on Controlled Atmospheres and Fumigation in Stored Products	Dr Patrick Collins	Chengdu, China	September 2008
8th International conference on controlled atmosphere and fumigation in stored products	Mr Robert Emery	Chengdu, China	September 2008
International fruit fly management study tour	Dr Olivia Reynolds	Central and North America	June 2009
Modelling and Simulation with Mathematical and Computational Sciences	Dr Samantha Low Choy	Cairns, Queensland	July 2009
Invasive Species Symposium of the IXth European Congress of Entomology	Ms Bobbie Hitchcock	Budapest, Hungary	June 2010
International Plant Protection Convention	Dr Mallik Malipatil	Braunschweig, Germany	June 2008
CRC60111: Russian Wheat Aphid – Supervisors Meeting and Strengthening Collaborations	Dr Susan Fuller	Beijing, China	July 2009
2011 International Symposium on Grain Information technology (ISGIT2011)	Dr YongLin Ren	Beijing and Yangling, China	9-15 October 2011
Experts Meeting Global Invasive Species Information Network	Mr Robert Emery	Agadir, Morocco	2006 - February
Genetics Society of AustralAsia Conference		Adelaide, South Australia	July 2008
PRATIQUE meeting, Kleinmachnow, Germany	Dr Peter Whittle		February 2009
International Working Conference on Stored Product Protection	Dr Manoj Nayak		June 2010 - July 2010
The influence of modern wheat production practices on Sunn pest impacts in Romania			June 2010
Using TOPS to identify host hot spots for rust incursion management	Mr John Weiss		December 2010
Evaluating water sampling techniques in the USA	Ms Rebecca Zappia		February 2011
Canadian Food Inspection Agency Science Symposium	Dr David Cook		February 2011
Better models – better assessments: the use of models in plant health and biotechnology risk assessment	Dr Paul De Barro		February 2011
Canadian Food Inspection Agency Science Symposium	Dr Darren Kriticos		February 2011
Greenhouse 2011 Conference	Dr Kyla Finlay		April 2011
Biosecurity model for exotic and non exotic plant parasitic nematodes	Mr. Sunil Singh		April 2011
Ninth Australian Banana Industry Congress	Ms Rachel Meldrum		June 2011
International Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution Conference	Ms Bo Zhang		July 2011
Connecting social research and scientific practice to improve plant biosecurity management	Mrs Ruth Wallace		March-April 2011
ModSim 2011			December 2011
ModSim 2011			December 2011
The 2011 Field Crops Rust Symposium including Kansas State University and Texas A&M University visit			December 2011
International Congress of Antibodies: Winning the Race for Antibody R & D	Dr Andrew Geering		Macrh - April 2012