I have been invited to give an oral presentation at the SAADC - The Sixth International Conference on Sustainable Animal Agriculture for Developing Countries (http://saadc2017.ub.ac.id/ ) in Indonesia in October. 

•	I have been invited to attend the conference to give an oral presentation on methane mitigation. The invitation was initiated through my collaboration with Prof Juan Boo Liang at the University of Malaysia. Prof Liang has published a number of studies using statins to control methanogens (with the statins being produced in situ using rice straw ensilage techniques). In our chemogenomics program we have characterised the HMG CoA reductase that is the target of statins. Together we have two papers being readied for submission, that was supported by a special MPI RFP. 
•	 Currently a workshop is being organised in Malaysia involving five Southeast Asian countries so as to produce cattle chambers.
•	Prof Liang has extensive contacts with other ruminant researchers (including in the methane mitigation area)  in Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar, Viet Nam, Indonesia and China, and thus this would represent a great opportunity to expand contacts in the southeast Asian area. This is a  focus area for the Global Research Alliance. 

The conference would involve visits to local research labs and the University of Malaysia providing a first hand look at overseas labs.
