Tony Bacic is Director of the La Trobe Institute for Sustainable Agriculture & Food (LISAF), La Trobe University, and the recently awarded Australian Research Council (ARC) Research Hub for Protected Cropping. He is a current board member of the Gene Technology Access Centre, and a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science.

Internationally recognised as a leader in plant biotechnology, his research is focused on the structure, function and biosynthesis of plant cell walls and their biotechnological application, medicinal agriculture, as well as the application of functional genomics tools in biological systems.

He is a James Cook University Outstanding Alumnus (2010) and a La Trobe University Distinguished Alumnus (2013).

Experience

  • –present
    Professor of Plant Biology, La Trobe University

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