Mar. 24 in Agora Café – LFS Scholar Series: Dr. Harjinder Singh  

If you haven’t already, sign up for next LFS Scholar Series and it will be a hybrid event – we encourage graduate students, faculty members and staff to enjoy some refreshments in Agora Café and join in person. If you plan to join in person, please register by tomorrow at 9 am. Speaker Dr. Harjinder Singh will be live-streamed via Zoom.

Title: Designing Food Structures for Optimal Functionality and Nutrition

Speaker:  Distinguished Professor Harjinder Singh, Director of the Riddet Institute (Centre of Research Excellence), Massey University in New Zealand

Biography:  Dr. Singh has published over 400 research papers and his expertise includes dairy science and technology, functional foods, food colloids, structures, and nutrition. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand and a Fellow of the International Academy of Food Science and Technology, and has received several international awards, including the Marschall Rhodia International Dairy Science Award, the William C. Haines Dairy Science Award (USA) and the New Zealand Prime Minister’s Science Prize.

Event Description: The challenge of designing foods for health attributes requires a detailed understanding of the interactions of food structures with physiological and behavioral processes occurring during food consumption and digestion. The human gastrointestinal tract (GIT) is the interface between consumed food and the human body, and the process of food digestion in the GIT is multi-faceted and complex. This presentation will provide an overview of the approaches used for designing foods for functionality within the GIT, with examples of recent work from his laboratory on the structural changes in natural and fabricated milk-based food systems during the digestion process.

Join in-person or via Zoom:

Date: March 24, 2022

Time: 4:00-5:00 pm PT

Location: In-person at Agora Café with refreshments, or via Zoom

Register in advance for the meeting (in-person registration required by March 22 at 9am):

https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_aYtuBuLRTu3oNim