Dear LFS graduate students,

We will be interviewing 3 candidates for the position of Assistant or Associate Professor of Food Science, starting April 15.  We would like to invite you to attend 3 LFS graduate student roundtables (one with each candidate), as well as their research and teaching seminars.  I have included the information below, along with Zoom links.  Registration is required, so please click on the links in advance to register, and you will receive a confirmation email and an option to add it to your calendars.  We hope that you will be able to attend and provide feedback to the selection committee on each candidate.  A copy of the advertisement can be found here.  If you have any questions, please contact Melanie Train at melanie.train@ubc.ca.

Dr. Lingyan Kong, Assistant Professor, Department of Human Nutrition and Hospitality Management, The University of Alabama
Dr. Kong obtained his bachelor degree in Food Science and Engineering from China Agricultural University and PhD degree in Food Science from the Pennsylvania State University. His research interests are to understand the structure-function relationships in food biopolymers at the molecular, microscopic and macroscopic levels, and to develop food materials of unique structures and properties for improving food quality and health benefits. Dr. Kong has been conducting interdisciplinary and collaborative research that integrates knowledge from food science, nutrition, physical chemistry, and materials science. Dr. Kong is teaching NHM 253 Food Science, NHM 454 Experimental and Functional Food Science, and NHM 691 Grant Writing for Translational Nutrition Research, at the University of Alabama.

Research Seminar:  Novel Utilization and Optimizing Health Benefits of Food Biopolymers
April 15, 1:00-2:30pm
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5Elf-2urzoiEtenfjwOk1qD5sHhnstY7YZS

Grad Student Roundtable  
April 15, 3:00-4:00pm
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5Iucu2uqjgrGNB8lqKC5Sz9NPxN-coZf9cL

Teaching Seminar:  Dairy Science
April 16, 11:00am-12:00pm
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5YrcOigpz0uGNN2c6_QR9f-niSaxcxQzaMS

 

Dr. Alexander Golberg, Associate Professor, Porter School of Environmental and Earth Sciences, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Golberg received a B.Sc in Food and Biotechnology Engineering from Technion and a PhD in Bioengineering from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was a postdoctoral scholar at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley in 2011, and from 2012 to 2014 was a fellow at the Center for Engineering in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital. From 2005 to 2010, he was a research engineer at Invitrogen. He was on board of three start-ups in the field of food technologies and bioenergy. Since 2014, Dr. Golberg has been a faculty member at the Porter School of Environmental Studies, Tel Aviv University, Israel, and since 2018 an Associate Professor with tenure and Head of the MA program on Environmental Studies.  Prof. Golberg’s interests are in biological systems engineering, bioenergy, macroalgae biorefineries, new sources for food, chemicals and fuels from macroalgae, exergy and applied thermodynamics, droplet microfluidics and electroporation.

Research Seminar:  Sustainable offshore seaweed biorefinery
April 21, 2:00-3:30pm
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5Ikc-ytqD0oHd0DoQmyqI3ESgfNZ1IcXuZ5

Grad Student Roundtable  
April 21, 4:00-5:00pm
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5coceCqrj0pGNUq-7ifcZzkblSPSavd0WY7

Teaching Seminar:  Electroporation and pulsed electric field technologies for food science and engineering
April 22, 11:00am-12:00pm
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5YpdemqpjspEtSm8hFiHZ_stKkBoP6Oq-w4

 

Dr. Tianxi Yang, ORISE Research Fellow, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, U.S. Food and Drug Administration Institute for Food Safety and Health
Dr. Yang obtained her Ph.D. in Food Science with a specialization in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She was then awarded BASF industrial postdoctoral fellowship for conducting research in BASF’s North American Center for Research on Advanced Materials. Dr. Yang’s research involves the development of innovative analytical technologies and advanced materials to improve the safety and sustainability of food systems, with a particular focus on novel spectroscopic techniques for sensing and imaging applications in food safety and public health. She is also interested in nanotechnology-enabled food packaging engineering and assessment of exposure to engineered nanomaterials. Dr. Yang has published 2 book chapters and 27 peer-reviewed journal articles in Nature Nanotechnology, Analytical Chemistry, Small, Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Food Chemistry, etc. She was also awarded government and industrial funding, and won 31 awards and honors (e.g., Phi Tau Sigma Founders’ Award and Institute Food Technologists Feeding Tomorrow Scholarship)

Research Seminar:  Advancing Food Safety and Sustainability Using Innovations in Analytical Techniques and Nanomaterials
April 28, 1:00-2:30pm
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5Elf-CqqDkjG9cVViyWM3T4mQ2jsVE15v6l

Grad Student Roundtable  
April 28, 3:00-4:00pm
Register in advance for this meeting: 
https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5IucOmvqTgiGNB-NtmQlJQtBV2txCKWJcTT

Teaching Seminar:  Immunoassays in Food Analysis
April 29, 11:00am-12:00pm
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u50qcOGurDMoE9Y42mfzXqCTXdGZXK7YGz2c