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Biophyschem2011: A Joint Meeting Of The Australian Society For Biophysics And The Raci Physical Chemistry Division Foreword, Adam Trevitt, Jeffrey Reimers, Ronald Clarke, Jamie Vandenberg Jul 2013

Biophyschem2011: A Joint Meeting Of The Australian Society For Biophysics And The Raci Physical Chemistry Division Foreword, Adam Trevitt, Jeffrey Reimers, Ronald Clarke, Jamie Vandenberg

Adam Trevitt

[extract] This Research Front of the Australian Journal of Chemistry is aligned with the BIOPHYSCHEM2011 meeting, a joint conference of the Australian Society for Biophysics and the Physical Chemistry Division of the RACI, which was held at the University of Wollongong from 3 to 6 December 2011. Just shy of 200 delegates made the journey to the Illawarra as these two societies came together for the first time for a national meeting. The idea for this collaboration sprang from the inaugural Australian Biophysical Chemistry Workshop, coordinated by Dr Ron Clarke (U. Sydney) and Dr Tak Kee (U. Adelaide) in 2010. …


Soil Chemistry: Understanding Phosphorus In The Environment, Paul Milham, Warwick Dougherty, Robert Morrison, Robert Clark, Ronald Smernik, Ashlea Doolette, Lucy Burkitt, Damian Collins, Rebeca Alvarez, Andrew Thomas May 2013

Soil Chemistry: Understanding Phosphorus In The Environment, Paul Milham, Warwick Dougherty, Robert Morrison, Robert Clark, Ronald Smernik, Ashlea Doolette, Lucy Burkitt, Damian Collins, Rebeca Alvarez, Andrew Thomas

Robert Clark

It is an essential ingredient in food production, but poor management means bad news downstream. Understanding the way phosphorus behaves in the environment calls for soil and plant biology, and some new soil chemistry.


Extraction And Characterization Of Lipids From Antarctic Krill (< I> Euphausia Superba), Joseph Gigliotti, Matthew Davenport, Sarah Beamer, Janet Tou, J Jaczynski Mar 2013

Extraction And Characterization Of Lipids From Antarctic Krill (< I> Euphausia Superba), Joseph Gigliotti, Matthew Davenport, Sarah Beamer, Janet Tou, J Jaczynski

Matthew P Davenport

There is significant commercial interest in oil extraction from krill because it is rich in omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (n-3 PUFA) such as eicosapentaenoic (EPA, 20:5n3) and docosahexaenoic (DHA, 22:6n3) acids. The objectives were to determine oil extraction efficiency using different solvent systems and the composition of extracted oil and spent krill following extraction. Extraction efficiency was the highest (P < 0.05) for one-step extraction using freeze-dried krill with 1:12 or 1:30 krill:solvent ratio (w:v) compared to Folch, Soxhlet, and conventional two-step extraction. Extracted oils contained predominantly phospholipids (20–33%), polar non-phospholipids (64–77%), and minor triglycerides (1–3%). Triglycerides contained much less (P …