Fidel Toldrá Vilardell, Research Professor at the Institute of Agrochemistry and Food Technology (CSIC), has been awarded the International Lectureship Award from the American Meat Science Association (AMSA). This Award is the highest award of said Association and was established in 1992 to honor an individual for internationally recognized contributions to the field of meat science and technology and active leadership and promotion of international activities in fostering cooperation and open...
27. October 2022 - 14:42
19. October 2022 - 2:00
On October 17 and 18, 2022, the FREE CONFERENCE "Waste recovery strategies to obtain high added value compounds" took place at IATA in online and face-to-face format, with the participation of 12 speakers from various countries (Spain, Argentina, Ecuador, Chile, Peru, Brazil and Cuba). The Institute of Agrochemistry and Food Technology (IATA-CSIC), the Ibero-American Program for Science and Technology for Development (CYTED) and the BIOLATES platform (Sustainable Use of Ibero-American Plant...
17. October 2022 - 9:17
On the occasion of the upcoming celebration of Science Week, and World Food Day, which is celebrated on October 16, the IATA is hosting the CSIC's traveling exhibition "The molecules we eat". This exhibition is aimed at the general public and students and consists of 20 panels. It shows the fundamental role that food plays in people's lives, explains the intervention of senses such as smell and taste in this process and details the biological mechanisms that our body uses to digest what we eat...
3. October 2022 - 2:00
One more year IATA has been present in the activities of the European Night of Researchers. On the one hand, Amparo López and Gloria Sánchez participated with their talk "Poop, microplastics and food" in the "MEDNIGHT Scientific Monologues" event, held on Tuesday, September 27 at "La Fábrica de Hielo". And on the other, the members of the groups led by Mª Carmen Collado and Yolanda Sanz were at the Science Fair with the workshop "I Gut the power: the power of food for the microbiota". This...
23. September 2022 - 13:43
Yesterday, September 22, the "Postdoc Day" took place at the IATA, a multidisciplinary conference to disseminate the activity of postdoc researchers from the Valencian Community. This event, organized by the IATA's Scientific Outreach and Equality Commission, is part of the International Postdoc Week (September 19 to 23). The Conference was opened by Jose F. Marcos (IATA director), Emilia Matallana Redondo (co-director of I2Sysbio) and Fernando Rey García (ITQ director) and closed by Juan...
15. September 2022 - 20:27
The Food Microbiology group of the Spanish Society of Microbiology has awarded the Awards for the Best Doctoral Thesis (2018-2021 period) that have been delivered at the XXII National Congress of Food Microbiology, held this week in Jaén. Among the award-winning theses are those of Marta Selma Royo and Irene Falcó Ferrando, carried out at IATA Marta Selma has received the 2020 Best Doctoral Thesis Award in Food Microbiology for her Doctoral Thesis entitled "Impact of perinatal factors on the...
31. August 2022 - 18:10
Our colleague Dr. Gloria Sánchez was interviewed yesterday on the TV channel À Punt's News program, in relation to the health alert issued by the Spanish Agency for Food Safety and Nutrition (AESAN) due to the presence of Hepatitis A in frozen berries comingfrom Belgium. This fact is very unusual since the presence of the virus in frozen bags could only be due to some contamination at the time of collection or through contaminated water since the virus is transmitted by the fecal-oral route....
29. August 2022 - 2:00
On August 17, our colleague Francisco Piñaga Otamendi, retired Research Professor, passed away. Dr. Piñaga developed his research career at IATA where his work was initially focused on the field of food dehydration, later continuing with the study of fungal enzymes of interest in food technology. Dr. Piñaga also held various management positions in our center, being Secretary of the institute (1979-1983), Deputy Director (1993-1994) and Director (1994-1995). It was in the exercise of these last...
8. August 2022 - 17:17
The University of Valencia has awarded the two Outstanding Doctoral These Awards corresponding to the area of Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology for the 2021-2022 academic year to two doctoral students from the IATA Group of Systems Biology in Yeasts of Biotechnological Interest, Lucía Ramos and Sara Muñiz. Lucía Ramos' thesis, Translational repression and novel functions of Cth2 in the Saccharomyces cerevisiae response to iron deficiency, was supervised by Sergi Puig and Mª Teresa...
4. August 2022 - 8:21
Our colleague Fidel Toldrá, Research Professor in the Biochemistry, Technology and Innovation of Meat and Meat Products group, has been chosen "Fellow" of the Division of Agriculture and Food Chemistry of the American Chemical Society-ACS in recognition of his contributions and achievements in the field of Food Science and Technology. Congratulations!