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PhD Viva Success for Shuning Zhang

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Massive congratulations to Dr Shuning Zhang on passing her PhD viva with minor corrections on her thesis by publication titled “Behaviour of food grade Pickering emulsions stabilized by plant-based particles under in vitro digestion conditions”. Shuning was examined by Prof. Caroline Orfila (internal) and Prof. Aiqian Ye (Massey University, New Zealand, external). Shuning had 4 published papers for her thesis by publication and also had an additional paper related to non-thesis research work. We wish Shuning all the best for her next steps in joining as a postdoctoral research fellow at Jiangnan University, China with an opportunity to become a lecturer in couple of years after assessment. Once again big congratulations to Shuning and we wish her the best for future endeavours!

Published work:

  1. Zhang S, Murray BS, Holmes M, Ettelaie R, Sarkar A.(2022). Gastrointestinal fate and fatty Acid release of Pickering emulsions stabilized by mixtures of plant protein microgels + cellulose particles: an in vitro static digestion study. Food Biophysicshttps://doi.org/10.1007/s11483-022-09756-5
  2. Zhang S, Murray BS, Suriyachay N, Holmes M, Ettelaie R, Sarkar A. (2021).Synergistic interactions of plant protein microgels and cellulose nanocrystals at the interface and their inhibition of gastric digestion of Pickering emulsions. Langmuir37, pp. 827-840 https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.0c03148
  3. Dan A, Aery S, Zhang S, Baker DL, Gleeson HF, Sarkar A.(2020). Protein microgel-stabilized Pickering liquid crystal emulsions undergo analyte-triggered configurational transition. Langmuir, 36 10091–10102 https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.0c01345
  4. Zhang S, Holmes M, Ettelaie R, Sarkar A (2020) Pea protein microgel particles as Pickering stabilizers of oil-in-water emulsions: Responsiveness to pH and ionic strengthFood Hydrocolloids, 102, Art no. 105583 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodhyd.2019.105583
  5. Sarkar A; Zhang S; Holmes M; Ettelaie R (2019) Colloidal aspects of digestion of Pickering emulsions: Experiments and theoretical models of lipid digestion kinetics. Advances in Colloid and Interface Science263, pp. 195-211 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cis.2018.10.002