Speaker

Jacqueline Batley is a Professor at the University of Western Australia. She was awarded her PhD from the University of Bristol UK in 2001. She moved to Australia in 2002, as a senior research scientist at DPI-Victoria, then led a research group at the University of Queensland as an ARC QEII Research Fellow, from 2007-2014, before moving as an ARC Future Fellow to UWA. Jacqui has received several including the Nancy Millis Medal from the Australian Academy of Sciences. She has been a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher since 2022. Jacqui’s research applies breakthrough biotechnological advances for canola crop improvement, through identification of genomic regions controlling traits, which are being translated to commercial outcomes. Her work has led to new canola cultivars, with enhanced productivity, profit, and yield stability through identification of genes linked to shatter tolerance, blackleg disease resistance and oil quality. She is currently an ARC Laureate Fellow focussing on blackleg resistance in the Brassicaceae.

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