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Emeritus Professor John Nolan has been associated with the ‘Recent Advances in Animal Nutrition – Australia’ symposium (RA) since its inception in the early 1970s. His connection with the University of New England (UNE) pre-dates RA and spans nearly 60 years from when he enrolled in the Bachelor of Rural Science degree program in 1962. His mentors in the Department of Biochemistry and Nutrition at UNE in the 1960s included people who played a major role in the instigation of RA, Professors G. L. (Bill) McClymont, Frank Annison, Rob Cumming and David Farrell. During John’s PhD studies under the supervision of Ron Leng, he pioneered ¹⁵N tracer dilution methods as a means of quantifying nitrogen kinetics and protein conservation in ruminant animals. His expertise in animal nutrition led to international consultancies with FAO, IAEA and ACIAR in developing countries and afforded many opportunities for networking. After about 15 years of full-time postdoctoral research, John joined the staff in the Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Nutrition at UNE, the original home of RA. During the next 15 years, his livestock nutrition research extended to include feeding behaviour (choice feeding and feed aversion) in ruminants and also poultry. Later, John served for 10 years as Professor of Animal Nutrition in the School of Environmental and Rural Science at UNE. Since his retirement in 2011, he has maintained an active role in research and postgraduate student supervision and has added to his several hundred refereed reviews and research reports that have contributed to his current Hirsch index of 47. Over the years, John has contributed numerous reviews to RA and his postgraduate students have always been encouraged to present their most-recent work at the RA symposia.