Nitsuwat Supatchayapon (Fon, PhD Student) presents an oral presentation at the Nutrition Society Summer Conference (3-6 July ’23) at Liverpool, UK. Her talk was titled “Denture status is related to chewing difficulty and bite force, though not BMI in elderly Thai adults”.
Massive congratulations to Kwan Mo-You (PhD Stuedent) on passing his PhD viva with editorial corrections only today on his thesis by publication titled “Tribology and Rheology of Biopolymer Mixtures”. Kwan's thesis was examined by Prof. Jianshe Chen (external examiner, Zhejiang Gongshang University, China) and Prof. Francisco Goycoolea (internal). Published work (and some more in revision stage): You...
Daisy Akgonullu (PhD Student, SOFI2 CDT and Pepsico) and Elizabeth Tenorio Garcia (PhD Student, ConacyT) presented at the 21st Gums & Stabilisers for the Food Industry Conference "Meeting industry's needs, consumers' expectations and sustainability challenges" at Thessaloniki, Greece, June 6th-9th 2023. Daisy presented a poster titled "Influence of elasticity on performance of sustainable biopolymeric microgels"...
Dr. Andrea Araiza Calahorra (Postdoctoral Fellow, Eat4Age) presents a talk titled "Relating tribological performance of protein-rich fat emulsions and emulsion gels to microstructure" in the Session K: Rheology and Tribology of Complex Fluids at the NC State University, Raleigh, North Carolina on 407 June 2023. Part of her lecture can be followed in her initial...
Bianca Hatz, Jennifer aka Jenny McLauchlan and Jun Yang presented posters today at the Bragg PhD Colloqium 2023, Leeds, UK. Jenny McLauchlan (PhD Student, SOFI2 CDT and Oatly) presented a poster titled "Oat proteins: understanding so far on structure-function relationship" and she also won the runners-up poster prize today. Congratulations Jenny. Bianca Hatz (PhD Student,...
The SoftComp/EUSMI Annual Meeting 2023 took place in Ancona, Italy from May 23 through 25, 2023. Ben Kew (PhD student, ERC LubSat Project) and Megan Holdstock (PhD Student, SoFi2 CDT) presented a keynote talk and a poster respectively at the meeting. Ben Kew (see picture) presented a keynote speech in the young scientists session titled...
Frances Brown (PhD Student, BBSRC DTP and Mondelez) presents a talk titled "Oral Frictional Properties of Plant and Dairy Proteins-the role of saliva" at the 77th STLE Annual Meeting & Exhibition, Long Beach Convention Center, California, US on May 21-25, 2023. Part of her lecture can be followed in her initial systematic review paper below: Brown...
Dr. Andrea Araiza-Calahorra (Postdoctoral Fellow, Eat4Age Project) has co-authored the paper titled "Static in vitro #digestion model adapted to the general older adult population: an INFOGEST international consensus" publihsed in Food and Function, Volume 14, pp. 4569-4582 led by Dr. Didier Dupont (INRAe, France). The objectives of the present paper were: (1) to conduct an exhaustive...
Team members from Sarkar Lab (Dr. Andrea Araiza-Calahorra, Dr. Siavash Soltanahmadi, Kwan Mo-You, Megan Holdstock, Frances Brown and Nitsuwat Supatchayaporn participated in the Be Curious Event at the University of Leeds on 13th May 2022. Stalls on “Feel for Food” and “Udderstanding alternatives” got so many curious minds engaged delivering the true impact of science of...
Prof. Anwesha Sarkar (PI, Sarkar Lab) gives a talk at the Online Inaugural Symposium, Food Sensory Science at Zhejiang Gongshang University, China on 10th May 2023 on "Multiscale tribology of soft materials: Case studies on plant proteins and chocolate". In this talk, she talks about macroscale and nanoscale tribology, how to design relevant biomimetic surface and finally...