Vicente Monedero, from the Lactic Bacteria and Probiotics group, gave yesterday, June 28, the conference "Lactic bacteria to alleviate metal toxicity" within the framework of the XXVIII Spanish Microbiology Society Congress, which is being held this week virtually. This year the National Congress of Microbiology coincides with the 75th Anniversary of the founding of the SEM, therefore a specially selected program has been developed around three general thematic axes (global health,...
29. June 2021 - 14:33
28. June 2021 - 2:00
Our colleague Jaime Zacarías, predoctoral researcher from the Postharvest Physiology, Pathology and Biotechnology group, has received the “Outstanding presentation” award in the “Dietary Sources of Carotenoids and Nutritional Supplementation” session of the “1st Virtual International Conference on Carotenoids”, which took place last week, with participants from 27 countries. More information about the congress here.
21. June 2021 - 7:50
On June 16, Amparo López Rubio participated as a speaker in the "Sustainable agro-food packaging" session of the Food4Future World Summit, the largest European congress on innovation technology in the food and beverage industry. This session provided a brief overview of the current situation, available options, and future trends towards greater packaging sustainability, highlighting how nature can inspire future material developments. Teresa Jiménez, an innovation agent funded by the VaIenciana...
18. June 2021 - 7:29
Dr. Fidel Toldrá, Research Professor at IATA, has given the invited conference entitled "Adding value to meat and fish by-products through protein hydrolysis for the generation of bioactive peptides" at the International Symposium on Delivery of Functionality in Complex Food Systems 2021 (DOF 2021) that was held in Guanzhou (China) from June 17 to 19, 2021. Dr. Toldrá also acted on June 17 as Chairman of the 1st session on Health, which had 7 speakers. DOF 2021 is an interdisciplinary symposium...
11. June 2021 - 14:55
Mª Carmen Collado, scientist from the IATA-CSIC department of Biotechnology, has won the Jesús Serra Foundation Research Award in the category of clinical research, ex aequo with Borja Ibáñez, director of the Department of Clinical Research of the National Research Center Cardiovascular (CNIC) and cardiologist at the Jiménez Díaz Foundation. Her line of work is framed in the establishment of associations between the human microbiota, food and health in the mother-child binomial. More...
9. June 2021 - 2:00
On June 8, Amparo López, from the IATA Packaging Group and Marta Martínez-Sanz, from CIAL (Madrid), gave the online seminar "Doses against plastic (sustainable packaging)", organized by the Eurocaja Rural Foundation. The researchers presented alternatives to traditional packaging, presenting other sustainable and ecological materials, highlighting the different advances and real options that can be adopted, both in the short and medium term, in industrial and consumer habits, as well as the...
8. June 2021 - 2:00
Dr. Laura Laguna, Ramón y Cajal researcher at the SensIATA laboratory, from the IATA Food Science department, has been elected a new member of the Young Academy of Spain. Last Thursday, June 3, the General Board of the Young Academy of Spain elected 10 new Academic Members. An independent international committee made up of highly prestigious researchers covering different areas of knowledge has participated in the selection process. 102 candidates were submitted to this call, that is to say,...
3. June 2021 - 2:00
Lorenzo Zacarías, researcher from the Postharvest Physiology, Pathology and Biotechnology group, has participated in the international webinar organized by the Citrosol company on chilling injury on citrus. This webinar was first offered in a session in Spanish on May 26 aimed at companies in Spain and South America. On June 2, the session was held in English, aimed at companies in Australia, with the ttle "Relevance of chilling injury in Citrus shipment and cold storage: advances in its...
1. June 2021 - 2:00
Within the cycle "We talk to experts. Today we talk about ...", organized by the Association of Celiacs and Gluten Sensitive of the Community of Madrid, on May 26 our colleague Cristina Molina Rosell, from the group of Cereals and Cereal Based Products, gave an online conference with the title "Gluten: fact or fiction". The objective of this conference was to provide the necessary information to know the role of gluten in the development of various foods and their properties, as well as the...
31. May 2021 - 2:00
The Enzyme Molecular Engineering group of the IATA-CSIC, led by the researcher Julio Polaina, participated at the meeting of the European Woodzymes project, that was held on May 25 and 26. The Woodzymes project is based on the sustainable bioeconomy applied to the wood industry, with the aim of replacing classical chemistry with another with a lower environmental impact, relying on the use of Extremophilic enzymes, as well as obtaining useful by-products for new applications such as adhesives...