biodiscovery final

Biodiscovery: 

Biodiscovery Professor Snow Barlow Professor Kingsley Dixon Mr Garry Redlich Prime Minister’s Science Engineering and Innovation Council

Australia A Journey Through Time: 

Australia A Journey Through Time Gondwana

What is Biodiscovery ?: 

What is Biodiscovery ?

Where are we now?: 

Where are we now? Facilitating access Fire ants Anti-cancer sponges We can do better!

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Biodiscovery

World-beating biodiversity: 

World-beating biodiversity 80% of Australian species are found here, and nowhere else Australia is more biodiverse than 98% of other countries

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Australia’s marine biodiversity amongst the most abundant and diverse on earth

Unlocking the Knowledge: 

Unlocking the Knowledge We know only one in four species in Australia 1gm of soil has >1million bacterial species!

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Unlocking the Knowledge The key … Atlas of Living Australia All known Australian plant & animal species named by 2015 – a Biodiversity Google

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Australia is losing species faster than they are being found. Unlocking the Knowledge Protecting our Biodiversity Resource

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Unlocking the Knowledge Indigenous & Traditional Knowlege

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Australian Biodiversity at Work The billion dollar McCarney’s iron ore plant

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Australian Biodiversity at Work Weed-free farming

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Australian Biodiversity at Work A bio-adhesive that mends broken knees

$IZEof thePRIZE: 

$IZE of the PRIZE SHARE of GLOBAL DRUG MARKET $300bn AUSTRALIA’S BIGGEST CANCER $500m WEED-FREE FARMING $3.3bn PANDEMIC INFLUENZA $1,000bn or 2% of WGDP BIOMEDICAL ENZYMES $100m FIRE ANTS $175m or $8.9bn THE BIG ONE FROTH & BUBBLE PIECE OF THE PIE BORDER TROUBLE US BIO-REMEDIATION MARKET $62bn MUCK & BRASS UP IN SMOKE FUN & SUN The

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Challenges … what challenges? … but integration of collections is piecemeal. … but access & benefit rules are unclear or inconsistent.. ... but we lack a sense of urgency in the struggle to bridge the chasm. and those of our competitors are not. Taxonomists are an endangered species. Solution Atlas of Living Australia by 2015 Solution National Screening Network Solution Harmonised national access & benefit-sharing legislation

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Challenges Bridging the Chasm

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National Screening Network

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EXPANDING OUR UNDERSTANDING Molecules Properties of organisms Whole organisms Ecosystems Recommendation 1: Develop an Atlas of Living Australia Biodiscovery Action Plan

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Recommendation 2: Establish a National Screening Network, a Compound library and coordinate national collections Biodiscovery Action Plan UNLOCKING THE KNOWLEDGE National networked repositories & databases incl. IK,TK Existing Scientific Knowledge

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EXPANDING OUR UNDERSTANDING Molecules Properties of organisms Whole organisms Ecosystems Recommendation 1: Develop an Atlas of Living Australia UNLOCKING THE KNOWLEDGE National networked repositories & databases incl. IK,TK Existing Scientific Knowledge Recommendation 2: Establish a National Screening Network, a Compound library and coordinate national collections Biodiscovery Action Plan

The Team: 

The Team Professor Snow Barlow FASTS, University of Melbourne (Chair) Professor Simon Carroll Western Australian Biomedical Research Institute Prof Kingsley Dixon Kings Park and Botanic Gardens, WA Professor Martin Nakata University of Technology Sydney Dr Ian Poiner Australian Institute of Marine Science Professor Ronald Quinn Natural Product Discovery, Griffith University Mr Garry Redlich Implicit Bioscience Pty Ltd Professor Brad Sherman Australian Centre for Intellectual Property in Agriculture Dr Richard Stewart Flinders Bioremediation Pty Ltd Dr Stephen Trowell Food Futures Research Flagship, CSIRO Dr Judy West Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, CSIRO