NZMS Orator

Each year at its annual meeting, the Society presents a member with the NZMS Distinguished Speaker Award. The award was started in 2001 and the awardee presents the society's official oration at the annual meeting. The NZMS oration at this year's conference will be presented by Dr. Andrew Hudson, a senior scientist in the Food Safety Programme at ESR in Christchurch. An abstract regarding his oration will be posted in due course.

BIOGRAPHY

Dr Andrew HudsonAndrew has a BSc (Hons) from Bristol University, England, and doctorate from the University of Waikato. He joined the Institute of Environmental Science and Research Ltd (ESR) in 1996 where he is currently a senior scientist in the Food Safety Programme based at the Christchurch Science Centre. His career experience includes positions with the University of Waikato working on various aspects of thermophilic bacteria, MIRINZ producing predictive models for the growth of Listeria monocytogenes, Aeromonas hydrophila and Yersinia enterocolitica, and a few years at AgResearch examining microbial transformations of unsaturated fatty acids with a view to their manipulation for dairy product flavour enhancement.

The main current area of scientific interest is the biocontrol of foodborne pathogens, particularly using bacteriophages (phages). In FRST and industry-funded projects the ESR phage team has been isolating, characterising and assessing such phages for potential applications along the farm to fork continuum. In addition he maintains an interest in foodborne pathogens in general, but with particular focus on Campylobacter, pathogenic Escherichia coli, Listeria and Yersinia.

He has been accepted onto the roster of the FAO/WHO experts in microbiological risk assessment and is a member of the NZFSA Academy of Experts and a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Food Science and Technology. Andrew has published more than 50 papers, reviews and book chapters on food microbiology. He has also made numerous oral and poster conference presentations.

Last year he was the recipient of the ESR Senior Fellowship which supported lab visits to the USA and Europe as well as attendance at the first European ProSafeBeef meeting in Dublin. It also allowed for some exploratory lab work in biocontrol.

 

How to get there

The conference venue is inthe Central Lecture Block which is best reached off Clyde Rd, turning down Arts Road.

For a map go to http://www.canterbury.ac
.nz/theuni/maps/

Full programme now available!

Conference themes include:

  • Agriculture
  • Biocontrol
  • Extremophiles & Geomicrobiology
  • Food Microbiology
  • Industrial & Commercial Microbiology
  • Medical Microbiology & Infectious Disease
  • Microbial Genetics
  • Microbiology Education
  • Molecular Biology
  • Water & Environmental Microbiology
  • Virology

Important Dates

Abstract submission is now closed but late submissions will be considered if programming space available
Friday 10 October:
All Oral and Poster presenters notified of acceptance.
Friday 24 October:
Early bird registration CLOSES (Late registration - up to the day)