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Massive congrtaulations Dr. Ecaterina Stribiţcaia and Dr. Shuning Zhang for graduating today with their PhDs from School of Food Science & Nutrition, University of Leeds. Ecaterina is now a scientist in Unilever, UK and Shuning an Assistant Professor in Jiangnan University, China. Shuning's PhD was on “Behaviour of food grade Pickering emulsions stabilized by plant-based particles under in vitro...
Xerostomia or dry mouth affects 1 in 10 adult predominantly elders leading to malnutrition and severe impairment in quality of life. Prof. Sarkar (PI, Sarkar Lab) has spoken to Alla Katsnelson published in ACS Central Science (https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acscentsci.3c00803) about the team’s recent ground-breaking work on AquaLub Project (Funded by European Research Council Proof of Concept) on...
A new review paper titled "Hybrid particles for stabilization of food-grade Pickering emulsions: Fabrication principles and interfacial properties" is published by Nisufyan Nimamimg (PhD Student) in Trends in Food Science and Technology, Volume 138, pp. 671-684 in collaboration with Dr. Amin Sadeghpour and Prof. Brent S. Murray. This review highlights the significant progress that has been...
UK Colloids 2023 (17 - 19 July 2023), the fourth colloid science conference in the series was jointly organised by the RSC’s Colloid and Interface Science Group and the SCI’s Colloid and Surface Science Group at Liverpool, UK. Sarkar Lab was well-represented with 2 oral and 8 poster presentations covering various aspects of colloid science...
The 3rd Annual EPSRC CDT Molecules to Product Conference (12-13 Jul, 2023) was a PhD students-led conference held at Weetwood Hall, Leeds, UK mentored by Prof. Anwesha Sarkar (PI Sarkar Lab, Theme Lead, CDT Molecules to Product, Product Functionalization and Performance) along with another theme lead from School of Chemical and Process Engineering. The aim...
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,...