Recent Advances in Animal Nutrition – Australia: people and circumstances shaping this symposium’s successful first 50 years
John V. Nolan
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A Emeritus Professor, University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2350, Australia. Email: jnolan@une.edu.au
Emeritus Professor John Nolan has been associated with the ‘Recent Advances in Animal Nutrition – Australia’ symposium (RA) since its inception in the early 1970s. His connection with the University of New England (UNE) pre-dates RA and spans nearly 60 years from when he enrolled in the Bachelor of Rural Science degree program in 1962. His mentors in the Department of Biochemistry and Nutrition at UNE in the 1960s included people who played a major role in the instigation of RA, Professors G. L. (Bill) McClymont, Frank Annison, Rob Cumming and David Farrell. During John’s PhD studies under the supervision of Ron Leng, he pioneered 15N tracer dilution methods as a means of quantifying nitrogen kinetics and protein conservation in ruminant animals. His expertise in animal nutrition led to international consultancies with FAO, IAEA and ACIAR in developing countries and afforded many opportunities for networking. After about 15 years of full-time postdoctoral research, John joined the staff in the Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Nutrition at UNE, the original home of RA. During the next 15 years, his livestock nutrition research extended to include feeding behaviour (choice feeding and feed aversion) in ruminants and also poultry. Later, John served for 10 years as Professor of Animal Nutrition in the School of Environmental and Rural Science at UNE. Since his retirement in 2011, he has maintained an active role in research and postgraduate student supervision and has added to his several hundred refereed reviews and research reports that have contributed to his current Hirsch index of 47. Over the years, John has contributed numerous reviews to RA and his postgraduate students have always been encouraged to present their most-recent work at the RA symposia. |
Animal Production Science 62(12) 1060-1089 https://doi.org/10.1071/AN21219
Submitted: 20 April 2021 Accepted: 1 June 2021 Published: 23 December 2021
Journal compilation © CSIRO 2022 Open Access CC BY-NC-ND
Abstract
The symposium ‘Recent Advances in Animal Nutrition – Australia’ (RA) was instigated at the University of New England (UNE) in the early 1970s. In the 1950s and 1960s, under the visionary leadership of Professor G. L. (Bill) McClymont, a talented group of young biochemists and nutritionists was recruited to become the Department of Biochemistry and Nutrition at UNE and quickly developed a strong reputation for nutritional research on ruminant and monogastric animals. Its members were keen to share their findings with relevant industry representatives and to learn about the major industry challenges. The idea for RA emerged ~1970 when Drs Robin Cumming and David Farrell saw the opportunity for regular RA schools, bringing invited experts from Australia or overseas to interact with UNE staff, post-graduate students and representatives of the monogastric and ruminant livestock industries. The first RA school was probably held in 1974. Aided by flexible working arrangements at UNE, David Farrell was able to champion further RA meetings that were held successfully about every 2 years. However, ~1990, the federal Education Minister John Dawkins began a process of amalgamating Australian higher-education institutions that produced detrimental administrative and financial ramifications for UNE and drained staff morale. After the 1993 meeting, Professor David Farrell left UNE, followed soon afterwards by Professor Ron Leng. The future of RA was at a crossroads; its funding and organisation needed overhauling to enable it to survive. A second, more formal phase of RA meetings (13 in all; 1995–2021), was instigated within a newly formed Department of Animal Science at UNE. The meetings became more formalised and even more financially dependent on industry support and sponsorship; meetings were planned by larger organising committees. Soon, papers were being formally refereed and the scope for provocative speculation of the type promoted at earlier meetings was somewhat curtailed in favour of scientific rigour. Organisers experimented with changed meeting dates, formats and venues at UNE, cumulating with a contentious decision to hold this meeting away from UNE. Despite its challenges, RA has grown in stature over 47 years from the small, informal schools of the early 1970s, to become Australia’s leading animal nutrition symposium.
Keywords: ruminants, pigs, poultry, human nutrition, aquaculture.
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