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Novotel Twin Waters ResortSunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia

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Grains Research &Development CorporationProudly Sponsored by

Welcome from the ChairmanDr David Poulsen

Invited Speakers

The 14th Australian Barley Technical Symposium 2

The 14th Australian Barley Technical Symposium offers delegates the opportunity to celebrate technical, production and industrial successes of the barley and associated industries across Australia and around the world. Through the formal program, you will hear the latest technological and marketing developments in the industry from leading industry and research personnel, as well as from a selection of talented young professionals and leading university students from across Australia. You will also have the opportunity to meet and mix with the speakers, industry leaders, scientists and barley producers in the relaxed subtropical environment of Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. On behalf of our Sponsors and the 14th ABTS Organising Committee, I am delighted to invite you to the Twin Waters Resort in September 2009 to join us and share an event that promises to be an enjoyable, informative and memorable experience for all.

Mr Henning Luetje: Mr Luetje has had a lifetime’s experience in the international grains industry. Prior to founding Agro-Handel in 2008, a grain market trading consultancy based near Hamburg, Mr Luetje worked with Toepfer International for over 40 years, specialising in malting barley and malt marketing.

Sponsored by

Ing Vera Honigova: Ing Honigova completed her Dipl. Ing. degree at the Institute of Chemical Technology in Prague in 1973 and a Graduate course in Brewing and Malting at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium in 1993. She is a member of the Czech Society of Applied Sciences and the Beer Safety International Management Team of Brewers of Europe. Ing Honigova worked in numerous breweries in Czech Republic to become a Head of Quality Department at Prague Breweries. She was appointed Quality Assurance Director, Czech Republic for BASS International and Group Quality Compliance Manager, Czech Republic, for InBev. She currently is the Manager of the Research and Development Department and is Company Secretary at the Research Institute of Brewing and Malting in Prague.

Mr Don Taylor: Mr Taylor, Chairman of GrainCorp, B.Com., CA, Grad.Ceft.Rur.Sc., FAICD, has a diverse background, being a graingrower and chartered accountant with audit and taxation experience in manufacturing and heavy industry. Mr Taylor joined the Board of GrainCorp in 2003 following the merger of GrainCorp with Grainco Australia Limited and became Chairman in 2006. Mr Taylor operates a mixed farming and grazing property in the Moonie district of Queensland. Crops grown by the business include barley, wheat, chickpeas, cotton, sorghum and various forage crops.

Invited Speakers (cont)


Dr Jim Helm: Dr Helm is a barley breeder with Alberta Agriculture, Food & Rural Development. He has been with Alberta Agriculture for over 35 years and his primary focus is on the improvement of barley for animal feed. He has been a driving force behind the feed grain development program at the Field Crop Development Centre in Lacombe and to date this program has released to Alberta producers 26 new barley and 8 triticale varieties adapted for Alberta. He has also been a leader in the application of Near Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy (NIRS) technology to the agriculture industry. This technology is used to measure feed and malting quality characteristics of barley.

Dr Stephen Neate: Dr Neate leads the winter cereals plant pathology team for Queensland Primary Industries and Fisheries at the Leslie Research Centre in Toowoomba. He joined CSIRO Division of Soils in 1985 as a post-doc, leaving in 2001 as a principal research scientist. During that time he led multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional research programs at CSIRO, the CRC for Soil and Land Management and for GRDC. His work was on development of methods to control soil-borne diseases in sustainable cropping systems for Southern Australia. From 2001 to 2009, he was a professor at North Dakota State University, Fargo, USA, where he taught host-parasite genetics and led a research program on control of diseases of barley which focussed on resistance gene discovery, mapping and development of molecular markers as well as disease management strategies.

Dr Antonin Dreiseitl: Dr Dreiseitl works at the Agricultural Research Institute Kromeriz, Czech Republic, where he is engaged in problems associated with resistance to biotrophic parasites on cereals, particularly on the model host-pathogen relationship barley-Blumeria graminis f. sp. hordei. Since 2006, he has taught plant pathology at Mendel University in Brno.

Prof Kay Denyer: Prof Denyer of John Innes Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom is a biochemist studying starch synthesis and degradation in cereal endosperms. Her aim is to understand how the quality and quantity of cereal starch is determined. To understand the role of the enzymes involved, she is studying mutants of cereals (mainly barley, rice and wheat) that are affected in their ability to synthesize starch. As well as biochemical approaches, she also uses. cereal genetic and genomic tools

Assoc Prof Kevin Smith: A/Prof Smith is based at the University of Minnesota, St. Paul, USA and conducts research on barley breeding and genetics. His breeding efforts concentrate on development of six-rowed spring barley for malting. Research projects include: understanding genetic diversity and linkage equilibrium in breeding populations, genetics of complex traits and marker assisted breeding strategies.

Queensland Government

Dr Ken Street: Dr Street is the Curator of the food and forage legume collection at the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), Aleppo, Syria. Since 1999, his duties at the Genetic Resource Unit of ICARDA have included general maintenance of the medium and long term collections, undertaking diversity studies and seeking to expand the collection with materials from under represented areas. Dr Street also coordinates plant genetic resource special projects in central Asia and the Caucasus in collaboration with Australian institutions and the N.I. Vavilov Research Institute of Plant Industry (VIR), St. Petersburg, Russia.

Sponsored by

Dr Udda Lundqvist: Dr Lundqvist started her career with the induction of barley mutants in 1949 and was responsible for barley research characterising and describing different mutant groups. She was employed by the Swedish Seed Association, Svalöv, later Svalöf AB and SvalöfWeibull AB, Sweden. Since 1980 she co-operated with the Nordic Gene Bank, today Nordic Genetic Resource Center, Alnarp, Sweden. Since her retirement from the NGRC 16 years ago, she works as a consultant for Nordgen, co-edits the Barley Genetics Newsletter and serves as International Overall Chairman for Barley Linkage Groups and collections.

Assoc Prof Jason Eglinton: A/Prof Eglinton is the Barley Program Leader at the University of Adelaide. The Program develops new barley varieties suited to malting, feed and human food uses for farmers across Australia. Varieties released from the program account for a significant proportion of national barley production. Applied research projects are conducted within the Program to drive future advances in plant breeding including work on tolerance to salinity, frost and drought as well as biochemical and genetic analysis of end use quality characteristics.

Sponsored by

Dr John Black: Dr Black is the Coordinator of the Premium Grains for Livestock Program funded by GRDC and several animal R&D organizations and manager of sub-program 1b for the Pork CRC, which extends the work from PGLP for the pig and other animal industries. He was formerly Assistant Chief of CSIRO Division of Animal Production; specialised in animal physiology across species and the development of simulation models. Dr Black left CSIRO in 1996 to establish a Research Management Company and now manages research programs for a range of R&D Corporations and private companies.

Invited Speakers (cont)


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Rust diseases of grain crops

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– Farm Biosecurity Plan’AcknoWledgementsthe grains Research and development corporation thanks the department of Agriculture and Food Western Australia, the University of sydney Plant Breeding Institute, nsW department of Primary Industries, Plant Health Australia, cRc national Plant Biosecurity and AQIs for their help with photographs and information

What can Australian travellers do?

Rust spore contamination on clothing and boots can appear as dust or dirt (soURce: dAFWA / BRAd collIs)

this exotic rust of lupins has not occured in Australia (soURce: dAFWA)

Important information on rustsWhat’s the problem?Rusts are microscopic fungi that are among the world’s most destructive plant diseases. Rusts attack grain crops — especially cereals (wheat, barley, oats) and legumes (beans, peas, lupins) — greatly reducing yield.Rust pathogens that haven’t been recorded in Australia could devastate our grains industries if they found their way into production zones. Many of our crop varieties are susceptible to exotic rusts.

What are the symptoms?Rust infections usually appear as brown, orange, yellow or white spots. Infected plants produce large amounts of powdery spores that can hitch-hike on travellers’ clothing or footwear.

How do rusts move?Rust spores can move on wind currents, but they’re also easily carried on clothing, footwear or equipment. Growth in international air travel has significantly increased the chance of inadvertently introducing exotic rusts to Australia.

How serious is the biosecurity risk?All grain crops are at risk from exotic rust strains. That means all agriculturalists (including producers, agricultural scientists and agri-business persons) need to be aware of the risks.The University of Sydney’s Australian Cereal Rust Control Program monitors rusts in Australia’s wheat, barely and oat crops.The stripe rust incursion in 2002 is estimated to have added additional control costs of $40-90 million per annum for Australian wheat growers.

trousers showing severe contamination from walking through a stripe rust affected crop. thoroughly launder clothes after travel

as rust contamination may be microscopic and difficult to see. (soURce: University of sydney, nsW department of Primary Industries / dAFWA)

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Sunday 13th September

Monday 14th September

2.00pm Postgraduate Research Session (open to all delegates)

6.00pm Grain Pool Welcome Reception - Poolside Beach

8.30am Welcome to Delegates : Dr David Poulsen, Chairman, 14th ABTS Organising Committee, Queensland Primary Industries and Fisheries, Warwick, Queensland

8.40am Official Opening : Hon. Tim Mulherin, Minister for Primary Industries & Fisheries (TBC)

9.00am Global Barley Marketing Overview : Mr Henning Luetje, Agro-Handel, Hamburg, Germany

9.40am R&D Investment for the Future of the Grains Industry : Mr Peter Reading, Grain Research Development Corporation, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory

10.10am The Future of Barley Breeding Australia : Mr John Oliver, New South Wales Department of Primary Industries, Chairman BBA Advisory Board, Orange, New South Wales

10.30am Morning Tea

11.00am Malting Barley in Europe : Ing Vera Honigova, Research Institute of Malting & Brewing, Prague, Czech Republic

11.30am Pilot Brewing Australia - Brewing for Industry Variety Improvement : Mr Kade Anderson, Fosters Group, Melbourne, Victoria

11.50am Carbon Emissions, Energy, Water and Malt - the Joe White Maltings Perspective : Mr Anthony Marafioti, Joe White Maltings, Adelaide, South Australia

12.10am Active Stack Management – Actively Undoing Malt Quality? : Dr Megan Sheehy, Joe White Maltings, Adelaide, South Australia

12.30am Lunch and Poster Session 1

1.40am Issues Surrounding Barley Production in the Northern Region : Mr Don Taylor, Barley Grower and GrainCorp Chairman, Moonie, Queensland

2.10pm Forty-plus Years of Barley Breeding with a Focus on Feed in a Malt Driven World : Dr Jim Helm, Alberta Agriculture, Lacombe, Alberta, Canada

2.40pm Advance Cycle Breeding for Six-rowed Malting Barley in the USA : Assoc Prof Kevin Smith, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA

3.10pm Royalties and Research : Mr Frank Curtis, Nickerson Seeds, Lincolnshire, UK

3.30pm Afternoon Tea

4.00pm Market Price and Supply Issues : Mr Phil Holmes, Agricultural Consultant, Toowoomba, Queensland

4.30pm Panel Session : “Bringing a New Variety To Market”Moderator : David Thomas, Barley Australia, Adelaide, South Australia Panelists : Dr Jim Helm, Alberta Agriculture, Lacombe, Canada; Mr Simon Crane, AWB Seeds, Bendigo; Mr John Stuart, GrainCorp, Sydney; Mr Trevor Perryman, Malteurop Australia, Geelong; Dr Kensuke Ogushi, Sapporo Breweries Ltd, Tokyo, Japan; Mr John Agnew, Barley Grower, Allora, Queensland

5.20pm ABTS Incorporated Annual General Meeting

6.00pm Foster’s and Lion Nathan Hospitality Suite Open : Ninderry Room

Evening Program : Delegates to make own arrangements

Session 1 : Conference Opening

Session 2 : Delivering value and impact from barley

Session 3 : Productive barley for malt and feed

Session 4 : Economics of Barley Production


Tuesday 15th September

8.30am Use of Association Mapping for Identifying QTL Associated with Resistance to Common Root Rot in Breeding Lines from North American Spring Barley Breeding Programs : Dr Stephen Neate, Queensland Primary Industries & Fisheries, Toowoomba, Queensland

9.00am Barley Breeding for Resistance to Highly Adaptable Biotropic Parasites : Dr Antonín Dreiseitl, Agriculture Research Institute, Kromeriz, Czech Republic

9.30am Accurate Phenotyping Reveals Better QTLs for Waterlogging Tolerance : Dr Meixue Zhou, Tasmanian Institute Agriculture Research, Launceston, Tasmania

9.50am Resistance to Scald in Australian Barley Germplasm - Progress and Future Options : Dr Hugh Wallwork, South Australian Research and Development Institute, Adelaide, South Australia

10.10am Barley Breeding for Salinity and Boron Tolerance in Southern Australia : Dr Stewart Coventry, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia

10.30am Morning Tea

8.15am Introductory Presentation : GRDC Nominee

8.30am An Update on Variety Identification in the Australian Barley Industry Using SNPs : Ms Julie Pattemore, Southern Cross University, Lismore, New South Wales

11.00am Genetic and Chemical Genetic Manipulation of Starch Synthesis and Degradation in Barley : Prof Kay Denyer, John Innes Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom

11.30am Barley CAP - A US Coordinated Research Project to Conduct Association Mapping in Contemporary Breeding Germplasm : Assoc Prof Kevin Smith, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA

11.50am Coeliac Friendly Malting Barley : Dr Greg Tanner, CSIRO Plant Industry, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory

12.10am Challenges in the Utilization of MAS in Barley Breeding for the Northern Region : Dr Wendy Lawson, Queensland Primary Industries and Fisheries, Warwick, Queensland

12.30pm Lunch and Poster Session 2

1.40pm Wild Barley - Genetic Resources for the Future : Dr Ken Street, International Center for Agriculture in Dry Areas (ICARDA), Aleppo, Syria

2.10pm Barley Mutations as Genetic Resource during the Last 80 Years : Dr Udda Lundqvist, Nordic Genetic Resource Center, Alnarp, Sweden

2.30pm Molecular and Cellular Analysis of Dormancy in Barley Grains : Dr Frank Gubler, CSIRO Plant Industry, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory

2.50pm Genetic Dissection of Grain Plumpness in Barley: a Review of QTL Mapping Progress : Dr David Moody, Department of Primary Industries Victoria, Horsham, Victoria

3.10pm Genetics of Vernalization and Photoperiod Response in Barley : Dr Ben Trevaskis, CSIRO Plant Industry, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory


4.00pm Barley Production Constraints : Assoc Prof Jason Eglinton, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia

4.30pm Eenie-meenie-minee-moe, Which Variety Needs to Go? : Mr Jeff Russell, Department of Agriculture and Food Western Australia, Northam, Western Australia

4.50pm Effect of Agronomic Practices on Yield and Quality of Malting Barley : Dr John O’Donovan, Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada, Alberta, Canada

5.10pm Crop Topping - The Impact for Feed and Malt : Dr Doug Stewart, Joe White Maltings, Adelaide, South Australia

5.30pm Malt Quality of Barley under Resource Management Techniques : Mr Ajit Singh Kharub, Directorate of Wheat Research, Karnal, India


7.00pm Joe White Maltings ABTS Dinner : Lilly’s Restaurant (Dress - lounge suit)

Session 5 : Control of biotic and abiotic stresses

Session 9 : Spotlight on early career barley researchers

Session 6 : Biotechnology and future research on barley

Session 7 : Management of barley’s genetic resources

Session 8 : Production of barley in variable environments


Wednesday 16th September

8.45am Microbial T-RFLP Screening as a Solution for Premature Yeast Flocculation assurance for Malt : Dr Mandeep Kaur, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania

9.00am Resistance Is the Best Method for Control of Spot Form of Net Blotch : Mr Mark Mclean, Department of Primary Industries Victoria, Horsham, Victoria

9.15am Phenomics-based Screening for Salinity Tolerance of Barley Genotypes Using Destructive and Non-destructive Techniques : Mr Ehsan Tavakkoli, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia

9.30am Measuring Grain Plumpness in Barley Using Image Analysis : Ms Cassandra Walker, Department of Primary Industries Victoria, Horsham, Victoria

9.45am Varietal Testing for the Malt Barley Industry - Where Are We At? : Mr Nigel Metz, South East Premium Wheat Growers, Esperance, Western Australia

10.05am Splitting Nitrogen Applications Makes Sense in Malting Barley : Ms Andrea Hills, Department of Agriculture & Food Western Australia, Esperance, Western Australia

10.30am Morning Tea

1.30pm Industry and the Development of Australia’s Malting Barley Varieties : Dr Doug Stewart, Joe White Maltings, Adelaide, South Australia

2.00pm Refinement of the Prediction of Malt Fermentability by Inclusion of Limit Dextrinase and a-Amylase : Dr Evan Evans, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania

2.30pm Unraveling the Underlying Influence of Protein on Genetic Expression of Malt Quality Traits : Ms Alison Kelly, Queensland Primary Industries and Fisheries, Warwick, Queensland

2.50pm Is Barley Brewing a Realistic Alternative for Australian Brewers? : Dr Mark Goldsmith, Foster’s Group, Melbourne, Victoria

3.10pm Barley as an Emerging Forage Resource in Drier Parts of India : Dr Mahesh Shrimali, Rajasthan Agricultural University, Jaipur, India


4.00pm Gains from Barley Breeding in Australia : Dr Reg Lance, Department of Agriculture & Food Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia

4.15pm Panel Session : “Barley - The Grain for Gain”Moderator : Dr Andy Barr, GRDC Southern Panel, South Australia. Panelists : Dr Ken Street, ICARDA, Aleppo, Syria; Mr Peter Healy, Lion Nathan, Brisbane; Dr Theresa Craig, Tara-Source, Queensland; Dr Brian Rossnagel, University of Saskatchewan, Canada; Dr Reg Lance, Department of Agriculture and Food, Western Australia

4.55pm Invitation to the 15th Australian Barley Technical Symposium

5.00pm 14th ABTS Awards Presentation and Closing Ceremony

6.00pm Barrett Burston Malting Co Barbeque and Farewell : McDonalds Beach


11.00am Barley as a Feed for Animals : Dr John Black, John Black Consulting, Warrimoo, New South Wales Sponsored by Pork CRC

11.30am Barley in Feed Formulations : Dr Matt George, Nutrition Services Associates, Brisbane, Queensland

11.50am Barley as an Ingredient for Function Food Products : Mr Juhani Sibakov, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland

12.10pm Effects of Planting Date and Earliness on the Level of DON : Dr Thin-Meiw Choo, Agriculture and Agric-Food, Ottawa, Canada

12.30pm Lunch and Poster Session 3

Session 11 : Quality barley for malting and brewing

Session 12 : Moving barley into the future

Session 10 : Barley as a quality food and feed


Program Disclaimer: The information contained in this brochure is correct at time of printing. The ABTS Committee and YRD (Aust) Pty Ltd reserve the right to alter or delete items from the program as circumstances dictate and takes no responsibility for any errors, omissions or changes. The program will be updated on the ABTS conference website as details are finalised.

Session 9 : Spotlight on early career barley researchers (cont)


Postgraduate Research Session

Social Program

The 14th Australian Barley Technical Symposium pre-symposium session : ”Postgraduate Research in the Barley Industry” is to be held at the Novotel Twin Waters Resort, from 2.00pm – 5.00pm on Sunday 13th September, immediately prior to the Grain Pool Welcome Reception.

The Symposium Organising Committee extends an invitation to postgraduate students and all other Symposium delegates to participate in this event. The aims of the Session are two-fold:

1) To give all postgraduate research students, in particular those who are presenting posters to the Symposium, an opportunity to present an oral account of their research in a less formal environment than the main conference sessions. Students are encouraged to give short presentations (approximately 10 -15 minutes, including questions) on their current or future research, independent of what stage their studies have reached. Those who have graduated since the last Symposium and did not present their completed work then, are also invited to participate.

2) To provide students with the opportunity to: a. Listen to industry specialists discuss career opportunities; b. Meet some of the Symposium speakers; c. Receive constructive and supportive feedback on their work; d. Build networks with other researchers and industry representatives attending the Symposium.

All students giving presentations during this session will be eligible for the Paul Johnson Memorial Award, provided they satisfy the necessary criteria. This award is presented to the best student oral presentation at the ABTS 2009.

Interested students should express their interest immediately via the ABTS website www.abts.com.au and they will be required to submit a short abstract of their presentation to [email protected] 30th July 2009. All presentations must relate to the conference theme Barley – The Grain for Gain.

All Symposium delegates are encouraged to attend this session and support the industry’s young researchers, encouraging them to remain a part of the barley research community in the future.

Welcome Reception Sunday 13th September Time : 6.00 – 8.00pm Venue : Poolside Beach Cost : Inclusive for conference full delegate ($60 for guests)

Conference Dinner Tuesday 15th September Time : 7.00 – 10.30pm Venue : Lilly’s Restaurant Cost : Inclusive for conference full delegates ($120 for guests)

Conference BBQ Wednesday 16th September Time : 6.00 – 9.00pm Venue : McDonalds Beach Cost : Inclusive for conference full delegate ($70 for guests)

Foster’s and Lion Nathan Hospitality Suite: Ninderry Room

Opening hours: Sun 13th September: 8.00 – 9.00pm

Mon 14th September: 6.00 – 9.00pm

Tue 15th September: 6.00 – 6.30pm and 10.30 – 11.30pm

Wed 16th September: 9.00 – 10.30pm

Accompanying Persons Program

Three tours have been arranged for accompanying persons, for more information visit: www.abts.com.au


General Information

**The hotel will charge a 1.5% fee for all credit card transactions.

Hotel Check In Time: 1400 hrs | Hotel Check Out Time: 1000 hrs

Novotel Twin Waters Resort is located just 70 minutes north of Brisbane and 5 minutes from the Sunshine Coast Airport. Set in luscious tropical surroundings, Novotel Twin Waters offers a pristine beachfront location set on 14 hectares of natural bushland.

Grand Mercure Apartments are a 5-minute walk from Novotel Twin Waters; full use of the Novotel Resort facilities is available during the Symposium.

The registration desk will be open:Sun 13th September 12.00 – 5.30pm Mon 14th September 7.30 – 5.30pmTue 15th September 8.00 – 5.30pm Wed 16th September 8.00 – 5.00pm

September is Spring in Australia, temperatures usually range between 13-25°C / 55-77°F.As the evenings may get cool we recommend you bring a jacket as there are outdoor functions.

Smart casual for the duration of the conference. Lounge suit for conference dinner.

Sunshine Coast Airport is the closest airport to Twin Waters.Jetstar, Virgin Blue and Tiger Air fly direct daily from both Sydney (1.35 hours) and Melbourne (2.25 hours)www.jetstar.com • www.virginblue.com.au • www.tigerairways.com • www.qantas.com.au

Brisbane Airport is 125 km from Novotel Twin Waters and is a 90 minute transferQantas, Jetstar and Virgin Blue fly domestically into Brisbane as well as various international carriers.

Sunair operates coach transfers from both Sunshine Coast and Brisbane airports to Novotel Twin Waters. Bookings are recommended: www.sunair.com.au

Sunshine Coast Airport – Twin Waters Resort $8.00 per person (approx)Brisbane Airport – Twin Waters Resort $45.00 per person (approx)

Sunshine Coast airport to Novotel Twin Waters will cost approximately $12 - $15 in a taxi.

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International visitors may require a visa in order to enter Australia. Please check with your local authority as to which visa you may require.

Access will be by web key for exclusive access by conference delegates.

See www.abts.com.au for all details about the Pre Conference Tour.

YRD is the appointed secretariat for ABTS 2009. Please contact YRD with any queries.

YRD (Aust) Pty Ltd PO Box 717 INDOOROOPILLY QLD AUSTRALIA 4068 Ph: +61 7 3368 2422 Fax: +61 7 3368 2433 Email: [email protected]

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Registration

Registration EntitlementsPlease read the following information carefully. Registration cannot be confirmed until payment is received. To ensure you are registered, your completed registration form together with appropriate payment must be received by the published dates. Please note that registration places are limited and will be allocated on a strictly ‘first in’ payment basis. In the event that space is unavailable you will be notified immediately.

Includes attendance to all sessions, a conference satchel, all publications, morning and afternoon teas, lunches each day and admittance to the hospitality room.Students must supply proof of full-time student status from their institution.

Do not include social functions; however tickets may be purchased via the registration form.

Include only the Grain Pool Welcome Reception, the Joe White Maltings Conference Dinner and the Barrett Burston Conference BBQ.

Cancellation and RefundsRegistration cancellation will not be accepted unless made in writing. Cancellations made before 24h July 2009 will be refunded less $130 to cover administration costs. No registration refunds will be made after this date. Substitute delegates will be accepted.

Cancellations of bookings must be advised in writing, each hotel reserves the right to charge delegates for non-arrivals on the dates pre-booked and this is at the discretion of the hotel.

No refunds will be given for social functions cancelled after 13th August 2009.

Registration fees do not include insurance of any kind. It is strongly recommended that at the same time you register for the conference and book your travel, you take out an insurance policy of your choice. The policy should include (1) loss of fees/deposit through cancellation of your participation in the Conference; (2) loss through cancellation of the Conference; (3) loss of international/domestic air fares through cancellation for any reason including force majeure, medical expenses, loss or damage to person or property, additional expenses; and (4) repatriation should travel arrangements have to be altered. The Conference Secretariat cannot take any responsibility for any participant failing to arrange his or her own insurance. Please note that cancellation of accommodation must be received in writing and cancellation fees are at the hotels discretion depending on date of cancellation.

All registered delegates become automatic members of ABTS Inc and may attend the Annual General Meeting held on Monday 15th September 09. An agenda for this meeting will be distributed two weeks prior to the symposium.

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Thank you to our sponsors

Platinum GRDC

Silver Barley Australia

Support Barrett Burston Malting Co Joe White Malting GrainPool Qld Primary Industries & Fisheries, DEEDI Fosters Group Lion Nathan

Bronze Barley Breeding Australia Kirin Australia Pty Ltd Molecular Plant Breeding CRC

Trade Deltagen FOSS Graintec Scientific Pty Ltd Invitro Technologies

Sponsors Beer and Brewer Magazine Coopers Brewery MALTEUROP Australia Pork CRC The Manildra Group

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