Do you know of someone who has made a significant contribution to the scientific community and scientific knowledge of cotton in Australia?
Nominations are open for AACS life membership. New members will be announced at this year’s conference in September.
Mark it in your diaries – the 6th Australian Cotton Conference will be held in Narrabri from 26-28 August 2025.
Watch this space – more details will be available soon regarding conference registrations, abstract submissions and nominations for awards and life memberships. We’ll also provide some links to what’s around Narrabri itself, for anyone interested in extending their visit.
Many thanks to the Conference Committee who are working hard to make the best conference yet!
Note: There has been a change to the date originally announced at last year’s AGM to avoid a potential accommodation shortage that was likely to be created by the AgQuip field days at Moree.
A huge congratulations to two AACS members who won their respective categories at the Australian Cotton Conference Awards Dinner on 8 August:
Dr Lisa Bird (NSW DPI) was awarded the Cotton Seed Distributors Researcher of the Year.
Lisa plays an essential role in the cotton industry’s surveillance for insecticide resistance, testing aphids, helicoverpa, mirids, mites, and thrips, with her results incorporated into cotton’s Insecticide Resistance Management Strategy (IRMS) each year.
Sharna Holman (DAF Queensland) was awarded the CRDC Chris Lehmann Young Cotton Achiever of the Year.
Sharna is the Biosecurity Tech Lead for CottonInfo, who is also currently completing a CRDC-supported PhD focusing on the pest status of cluster caterpillar in northern Australia.
See the Cotton Australia media release for official photographs.
The 2023 Cotton Research Conference has drawn to a close, and on behalf of AACS, we’d like to thank all those who contributed to making it such a success:
The 2023 Conference Committee, co-chaired by Alison McCarthy and Joe Foley worked extremely hard to ensure the conference ran smoothy. Other committee members were Warren Conaty, Lucy Egan, Paul Grundy, Kristen Knight, Susan Maas, Nicole McDonald, Guna Nachimuthu, Megan Woodward, Linda Smith, and Li Zitong.
A huge thanks to our official conference sponsors (CRDC, CSD, CSIRO, Bayer and UniSQ), and to INCYT who supported the coffee cart.
Thanks to the helpful staff and volunteers at both the main venue (Empire Theatre) and the dinner venue (UniSQ Refectory).
And finally… thank you to all the delegates who presented and attended. Without you there would be no conference, so we hope you enjoyed yourselves, met old friends and made some new ones, and above all, took something useful away with you from this event.