0900-0940       Pierre Dardenne: Twenty-five years of NIR spectroscopy at an agricultural research centre

0940-1000       Leo Schuler: Tunable infrared sensors enable real-time analysis of grains and soils

1000-1020       Ian Wesley: Use of sealed cells to spectrally match Foss XDS and FOSS 6500 instruments

1020-1040       Graeme Batten: The calibration is not the only important part of a successful NIR-based analytical service

1110-1140       Steve Holroyd: Where's the cheese?  The evolution of instrumentation, sampling and calibration for cheese analysis by NIR

1140-1200       Malcolm Brown: Measurements of quality traits in aquacultured salmon and abalone by portable NIR spectroscopy

1200-1220       Mirta Golic: Use of NIR for on-line quality control of peanuts

1220-1240       Nils Berding: Performance assessment of SpectraCane across international sites

1340-1410       Sumio Kawano: Detection of food glycemic index by NIR: sample presentation for non-invasive blood glucose measurement

1410-1430       Richard Streamer: In situ monitoring of CHO cell culture medium using NIR spectroscopy

1430-1450       Glenn Fitzgerald: Using remote sensing to predict nitrogen content of wheat grain before harvest

1450-1510       The “Kaji” Competition: Selected presentations on seeking the best possible calibration and prediction results from an unknown data set previously distributed     

(Note: “Kaji” is an Aboriginal word meaning “seeking” or “searching”)

1530-1630       Company Corner:  VERY short presentations from NIR equipment and software companies

Stefan Harasymow                Using the old with the new: experiences with calibration transfer in a grain testing laboratory

Catherine Margach               Prediction of trace elements in barley using NIR

Daniel Cozzolino                   Use of near infrared reflectance spectroscopy to measure leaf water potential

Daniel Cozzolino                   Use of visible and near infrared reflectance spectroscopy to predict wine spoilage 

Wies Cynkar                          Prediction of glycosylated compounds (G-G) in white grape juice by visible and near infrared spectroscopy

Tony Blakeney                      Choosing materials as standards for the Bruker FT-NIR

Graeme Batten                      Progressive improvement: the key to successful NIR-based plant analysis for crop fertiliser management

Graeme Batten                      Peer-reviewed publishing: the JNIRS perspective

Phul Subedi                           Hand-held SWNIR spectrometry and the Australian mango industry

Phul Subedi                           SWNIR spectrometry and the measurement of fruit firmness

^*Ria Reyes                             Exploring FTNIR and NIR spectroscopy for non-invasive assessment of steviol glycoside levels in stevia leaves

Donna Hocroft                      Developing NIR equations for rapid viscoanalyser (RVA) parameters in barley

Glen Fox                                Determining total sulphur content in sorghum (Sorghum bicolour) by NIR

Andrew Skerman                 NIR - a shining light or a stab in the dark?

Nick Ebdon                           Spatially resolved non-destructive assessment of wood properties by NIR

Peter Baker                           Whole tablet analysis - looking right through a tablet using the Series 2000 Tablet Analyser

^*Murad Yusuf                       Analysis of oranges stored at a range of low temperatures by NIR spectroscopy

^*Archana Kolasani               Determination of selected metals in Chinese herbs by NIR

Brett Wedding                      The determination of "Hass" avocado maturity by FT-NIR spectroscopy

0830-0900       Frank Westad: Orthogonality and interpretation in multivariate regression models

0900-0920       Brad Swarbrick: The concept of design space

0920-0940       Pierre Dardenne: Processing of food and feed spectroscopy data using support vector machines

0940-1000       Tadeusz Golebiowski: The relevance of Fourier transformation to NIR data processing

1000-1020       Holger Keller: Identification with cluster analysis: a method to determine flour quality

1020-1030       Sirinnapa Saranwong: Progress report on arrangements for 14^th ICNIRS Conference (NIR-2009), Bangkok, Thailand

1100-1130       Sirinnapa Saranwong: NIR identification of mango fruit infected with fruit fly larvae

1130-1150       Kerry Walsh: Exploring chemometric approaches used with SWNIR instruments in estimation of fruit quality

1150-1210       Daniel Cozzolino: Authentification and traceability in the wine industry: the role of NIR

1210-1230       Bob Dambergs: Detection of grape fungal disease with NIR spectroscopy

1330-1400       John S Shenk: UniStar: a new analytical system for NIR analysis

1400-1430       Paolo Berzaghi: NIR on the go: where is it going?

1430-1450       Catherine Margach: Comparison of NIR calibration methods to predict malting quality in a barley breeding program

1450-1510       Tony Blakeney/Peter Flinn: Hay colour revisited

1530-1600       Diane Malley: NIR for the analysis of variability in liquid hog manure

1600-1620       Phil Williams: The RPD: what is it, where did it come from and what does it mean?

1620-1630       PRESENTATION OF THE LYNSEY WELSH AWARD AND POSTER AWARDS