Auckland University Associate Professor Cather Simpson shows Chinese officials around her Photon Factory lab. Photo / Godfrey Boehnke
Auckland University Associate Professor Cather Simpson shows Chinese officials around her Photon Factory lab. Photo / Godfrey Boehnke
Chinese government officials left impressed after visiting the Photon Factory lab last week.
Auckland University Associate Professor Cather Simpson explained the laser technology that can sex bull semen and a diagnostic tool which accurately analyses the components of an individual cow's milk.
The Engender technology won theSilicon Valley Forum World Tech Cup Challenge this year and Ms Simpson won the supreme award at the 2016 Kiwinet Research Commercialisation Awards.
The Chinese delegates, led by vice minister Jun Han, were keen to see the application of technology to agriculture first hand, and to discuss how universities and industry could work more closely together.
At the Auckland Bioengineering Institute, Associate Professor Andrew Taberner introduced the needle-less injection - liquid drugs that can be injected through the skin without the use of needles, using jet injection.
Dr Vinod Suresh showcased "rumen modelling" (a computer programme that describes the physical processing of feed in the "rumen" or four-chambered stomach of a cow) and Dr Harvey Ho presented the "Bovine Atlas", the 3D mapping of animal carcasses useful in optimising meat processing.
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) Professor Jim Metson said the delegation went away highly impressed.
