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4. March 2024 - 12:38

The Institute of Agrochemistry and Food Technology (IATA), of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), is organising a workshop with speakers of international impact, focused on improving sustainability in the food sector..  This conference is part of the Severo Ochoa Strategic Plan of Excellence. Research in Sustainable Food, from Production to Preservation, is one of the research pillars of the project. We will have the participation of 6 national and international speakers who will...

15. June 2023 - 12:06

Research centers, companies and other entities in the agri-food field have launched the Go Superfood project, which aims to improve, through innovative agronomic fertilization practices, the characteristics of conventional crops and turn them into potential superfoods. The Microbiome, Nutrition and Health group of the Institute of Agrochemistry and Food Technology (IATA), led by the researcher Yolanda Sanz, is one of the groups that make up the project. The project will develop a specific field...

15. June 2023 - 11:50

Chema Lagarón, researcher of the Research Group on New Materials and Nanotechnology for Food Applications of the Institute of Agrochemistry and Food Technology (IATA), has obtained a special mention in the prize for the best patent in the second edition of the Awards for the Best Invention Protected by Industrial Property Rights, awarded by the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office (OEPM). The jury has estimated that the proposal deserves a "special evaluation" over the rest of the finalist...

13. April 2023 - 14:44

Members of the 21 partner entities of CIRCALGAE's project will meet in Valencia on April 20th and 21th at the 2nd General Assembly of the project. The Institute of Agrochemistry and Food Technology (IATA) will host the meeting on the 21st, which is expected to be attended by more than 50 people. The meeting on April 20 will take place at the headquarters of the RNB cosmetic business group, located in La Pobla de Vallbona. The Packaging research group, from the Department of Preservation...

22. March 2023 - 14:24

The Institute of Agrochemestry and Food Technology (IATA), research institute belonging to the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), located in Valencia Spain, is offering 5 Post Doctoral research contracts for researchers of Excellence, with an international and consolidated career in any of the different IATA's strategic lines, who wish to work in an institute of excellence pursuing cutting-edge topics in food science and food technology. Applications will be admitted up to the 31th of...

30. December 2022 - 13:45

 The Institute of Agrochemestry and Food Technology (IATA), research institute belonging to the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), located in Valencia Spain, is offering 10 PhD opportunities for researchers who wish to work in an institute of excellence pursuing cutting-edge topics in food science and food technology. Applications will be admitted up to the 18th of January 2023. This contract is incompatible with other pre-doctoral training contracts.  The length of the contracts will be...

27. October 2022 - 14:42

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...

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...