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Megha Mano Manohar

Saving chickens through probiotics, RMIT University

Bio technologist Megha Mano is self-confessed book worm, movie buff and cake fanatic. Having worked as a food technician for Nestle, Megha is now focusing her love of research into a PhD on Necrotic Entritis in chickens. This disease has cost the poultry industry $5 - $6 billion dollars in the past. If one chicken in a flock gets Necrotic Entritis it can wipe out a whole flock. No chickens means no eggs which means no cake! Megha is studying the use of a probiotic, as opposed to an antibiotic, which can develop a resistance, to asses its relative merits in delivering a vaccine to chickens.