Influencing factors of feed intake and digestion in prawn, Penaeus monodon (CSIRO Industry PhD Program)

This Project will investigate poorly understood mechanisms regulating feed consumption in prawns through a multi-disciplinary approach studying feeding behaviour, digestive physiology, nutritional needs and metabolism regulation. The expected outcomes are to better understand dietary factors and physiological mechanisms promoting feed consumption and return of appetite in juvenile prawns. This may lead to the application of new feed and feeding strategies to enhance aquaculture performance and sustainability.

The CSIRO Industry PhD program includes approximately 20 days of career and professional development across four years. Training is mostly online and self-paced to cater to students across Australia, and to fit into their busy lives.

The curated career and professional development training instils the business and IP, innovation and commercialisation, and stakeholder management skills that researchers need to collaborate and work across the university and industry sectors. These include understanding the drivers of research in industry while demonstrating project management and communication skills to deliver impact from research.

Highlights

• Two-day ON Launch Camp for iPhD, modelled from CSIRO’s successful ON Program and delivered by expert facilitators (Innovation Studios)
• Access to QUT e-Grad School
• Access to Career Control Online with Postdoc Training
• Access to thousands of online courses available to CSIRO staff

This project is supported by the CSIRO Industry PhD scholarship program.

Learn more about the CSIRO Industry PhD scholarship program.

Eligibility

You must:

1. Be an Australian citizen or Permanent Resident, or a New Zealand citizen.  
2. Meet participating university PhD admission requirements.
3. Meet university English language requirements.
4. Not have previously completed a PhD.
5. Be able to commence the Program in the year of the offer.
6. Enrol as a full-time PhD student. Part-time arrangements may be considered if approved by the supervisory team and in accordance with university policy.
7. Be prepared to be located at the project location(s) that the host university has approved and, if required, comply with the host university’s external enrolment procedures.
8. Be prepared to undergo onboarding to CSIRO, which will include passing mandatory government background checks (allow for between 4 to 8 weeks) and complete any other CSIRO requirements.

You must contact the principal supervisor for this project to discuss your interest. You should only complete the online application after you have reached agreement on supervision.

Always make sure you are approaching your potential supervisor in a professional way. We have provided some guidelines for you on how to contact a supervisor.

Your application will be assessed on a competitive basis.

We take into account your:

• previous academic record
• publication record
• honours and awards
• employment history

A working knowledge of aquaculture or animal husbandry and management would be of benefit to someone working on this project.

You will demonstrate academic achievement in the field/s of aquaculture and animal nutrition and the potential for scholastic success.

A background or knowledge of molecular biology, respiratory or digestive physiology and analytical laboratory biochemistry is highly desirable.

To be considered for this scholarship, please email the following documents to Dr Benjamin Mos (b.mos@uq.edu.au):

• Cover letter
• CV
• Academic transcript/s
• Evidence for meeting UQ's English language proficiency requirements eg TOEFL, IELTS

Please note the following: Submitting the above documents does not constitute a full application for admission into The University of Queensland's PhD program. If you are selected as the preferred applicant, you will then be invited to submit a full application for admission. You can familiarise yourself with the documents required for this process on the UQ Study website.