Professor James Dale
Director of Science Research
Phone:+61 7 3864 2819
Email:j.dale@qut.edu.au
Room:G 424
Profile
Professor James Dale is interim Director of the new Renewable Biocommodities Precinct at QUT which will incorporate the Sugar Research and Innovation and is the Director of the Science Research Centre at the Queensland University of Technology.
He has been involved in biotechnology research for more than 25 years with specific interests in molecular farming and the development of industrial crops such as tobacco and sugarcane as well as the development of agronomically elite cultivars particularly through the development of transgenic disease resistance in bananas, papaya and sugarcane.
His research team of more than 30 researchers has developed a range of biotechnology methods and products for expressing genes in transgenic plants, including bananas, sugarcane and papaya. He has also led research and development programs in the international arena most of which have been based in south east Asia (Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam) and more recently in Africa (South Africa and Uganda). Prof Dale has published more than 70 research papers, reviews and book chapters.
He is an inventor on 9 granted patents or patent applications of which to date the most successful has been the GeneCo technology which was sold to Affymetrix.
He is the founder and managing director of Farmacule Bioindustries Pty Ltd, Australia’s first molecular farming company.
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