DAIRY INNOVATION HUB: TRANSFORMATIONAL RESEARCH TO UNDERPIN THE FUTURE OF THE AUSTRALIAN DAIRY MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY (PROJECT 2A)

Utilisation of salty whey ultrafiltration permeate with electrodialysis

Sahar Talebi, Esther Kee, George Q Chen, Karren Bathurst, Sandra E Kentish

2019-12-01

Salty whey is a waste by-product that incurs increasingly high disposal costs for the dairy industry. This study investigated elec..

Comparison of physical characteristics and dewatering behaviour between granular and floccular sludges generated from the same sewage source

Konrad Krysiak-Baltyn, Raul Cavalida, Ben Thwaites, Petra J Reeve, Peter J Scales, Ben Van den Akker, Lydia Ong, Gregory JO Martin, Anthony D Stickland, Sally L Gras

2019-06-01

Aerobic granular sludge can improve the efficacy of wastewater treatment in existing sequencing batch reactors (SBRs) compared to ..

Synthesis of ultra small nanoparticles (< 50 nm) of mesoporous MCM-48 for bio-adsorption

SM Mousavi Elyerdi, MN Sarvi, AJ O’Connor

2019-01-01

© 2018, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature. Mono-dispersed spherical MCM-48 mesoporous silica nanoparti..

Simulation of phage dynamics in multi-reactor models of complex wastewater treatment systems

Konrad Krysiak-Baltyn, Gregory JO Martin, Anthony D Stickland, Peter J Scales, Sally L Gras

2017-06-15

Existing population models of bacteria and phages have most commonly described single well-mixed reactors. Whilst crucial to gain ..

Effect of solubilised carbon dioxide at low partial pressure on crystallisation behaviour, microstructure and texture of anhydrous milk fat.

Tuyen Truong, Martin Palmer, Nidhi Bansal, Bhesh Bhandari

2017-05-01

The crystallisation and melting behaviour, fat polymorphs, microstructure and texture of anhydrous milk fat (AMF) was investigated..

Permeable bio-reactive barriers to address petroleum hydrocarbon contamination at subantarctic Macquarie Island

Benjamin L Freidman, Deborah Terry, Dan Wilkins, Tim Spedding, Sally L Gras, Ian Snape, Geoffrey W Stevens, Kathryn A Mumford

2017-05-01

A reliance on diesel generated power and a history of imperfect fuel management have created a legacy of petroleum hydrocarbon con..

A bio-reactive barrier sequence for petroleum hydrocarbon capture and degradation in low nutrient environments

Benjamin L Freidman, Sally L Gras, Ian Snape, Geoff W Stevens, Kathryn A Mumford

2017-01-01

Sequenced permeable reactive barriers, containing materials for nutrient release and petroleum hydrocarbon adsorption, can promote..

Exploring the in meso crystallization mechanism by characterizing the lipid mesophase microenvironment during the growth of single transmembrane alpha-helical peptide crystals

Leonie van 't Hag, Konstantin Knoblich, Shane A Seabrook, Nigel M Kirby, Stephen T Mudie, Deborah Lau, Xu Li, Sally L Gras, Xavier Mulet, Matthew E Call, Melissa J Call, Calum J Drummond, Charlotte E Conn

2016-07-28

The proposed mechanism for in meso crystallization of transmembrane proteins suggests that a protein or peptide is initially unifo..

Using SANS with Contrast-Matched Lipid Bicontinuous Cubic Phases To Determine the Location of Encapsulated Peptides, Proteins, and Other Biomolecules

Leonie van 't Hag, Liliana de Campo, Christopher J Garvey, George C Feast, Anna E Leung, Nageshwar Rao Yepuri, Robert Knott, Tamar L Greaves, Tran Nhiem, Sally L Gras, Calum J Drummond, Charlotte E Conn

2016-07-21

An understanding of the location of peptides, proteins, and other biomolecules within the bicontinuous cubic phase is crucial for ..

How Peptide Molecular Structure and Charge Influence the Nanostructure of Lipid Bicontinuous Cubic Mesophases: Model Synthetic WALP Peptides Provide Insights

Leonie van 't Hag, Xu Li, Thomas G Meikle, Soren V Hoffmann, Nykola C Jones, Jan Skov Pedersen, Adrian M Hawley, Sally L Gras, Charlotte E Conn, Calum J Drummond

2016-07-12

Nanostructured bicontinuous lipidic cubic phases are used for the encapsulation of proteins in a range of applications such as in ..

An enzyme-responsive controlled release system based on a dual-functional peptide

X Li, S Burger, AJ O'Connor, L Ong, JA Karas, SL Gras

2016-01-01

A new controlled release system was developed by loading a dual-functional peptide (DFP) on a mesoporous silica material. One-pot ..

Computational models of populations of bacteria and lytic phage

Konrad Krysiak-Baltyn, Gregory JO Martin, Anthony D Stickland, Peter J Scales, Sally L Gras

2016-01-01

The use of phages to control and reduce numbers of unwanted bacteria can be traced back to the early 1900s, when phages were explo..

Deconvoluting the Effect of the Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Domains of an Amphiphilic Integral Membrane Protein in Lipid Bicontinuous Cubic Mesophases

Leonie van't Hag, Hsin-Hui Shen, Jingxiong Lu, Adrian M Hawley, Sally L Gras, Calum J Drummond, Charlotte E Conn

2015-11-10

Lipidic bicontinuous cubic mesophases with encapsulated amphiphilic proteins are widely used in a range of biological and biomedic..

Direct contact membrane distillation for the concentration of saline dairy effluent

Kezia Kezia, Judy Lee, Mike Weeks, Sandra Kentish

2015-09-15

The ability of direct contact membrane distillation to concentrate the waste effluent from salty whey, a by-product from the chees..

Homogenisation improves the microstructure, syneresis and rheological properties of buffalo yoghurt

Hanh TH Nguyen, Lydia Ong, Sandra E Kentish, Sally L Gras

2015-07-01

Homogenisation is known to improve the textural properties of bovine yoghurt but the potential of this processing step has not bee..

Biomimetic Topography and Chemistry Control Cell Attachment to Amyloid Fibrils

Nicholas P Reynolds, Mirren Charnley, Marie N Bongiovanni, Patrick G Hartley, Sally L Gras

2015-05-01

Networks of nanoscale fibrous coatings made from self-assembled peptides are promising candidates for biomaterials that can promot..

The degradation of curcuminoids in a human faecal fermentation model

Suryani Tan, Luca Calani, Letizia Bresciani, Margherita Dall'asta, Andrea Faccini, Mary Ann Augustin, Sally L Gras, Daniele Del Rio

2015-01-01

In the present study, the colonic metabolism of three curcuminoids (80.1% curcumin, 15.6%, demethoxycurcumin (DMC) and 2.6% bis-de..