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

 

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Graduate Research Awards for Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation

The Graduate Research Awards for Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation are offered by The Simons Foundation Canada and the International Security Research and Outreach Programme (ISROP) of Global Affairs Canada (GAC). 

A total of four awards of CAD $5,000 are available to Canadian Master’s and/or Doctoral candidates to support the independent research and writing of an academic paper responding to a specific Non-Proliferation, Arms Control and Disarmament (NACD) topic.  Awards also include domestic travel support to Ottawa where successful candidates will present their completed papers during a special event at Global Affairs Canada Headquarters in Fall 2022.

Application deadline: March 28, 2022 (submitted directly to The Simons Foundation Canada)

For further information, including application procedures, refer to the funding organization’s webpage: https://www.thesimonsfoundation.ca/highlights/graduate-research-awards-disarmament-arms-control-and-non-proliferation-20….

Mar. 24 – LFS Scholar Series: Dr. Harjinder Singh

Title: Designing Food Structures for Optimal Functionality and Nutrition

Abstract: 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. The mechanisms of food disintegration and consequent absorption of released components in the GIT in relation to food structure remain unclear. This presentation will provide an overview of the approaches used for designing foods for functionality within the GIT, with examples of recent work from our laboratory on the structural changes in natural and fabricated milk based food systems during the digestion process.

Biography:  Distinguished Professor Harjinder Singh is the Director of the Riddet Institute (Centre of Research Excellence), Massey University, New Zealand. His research expertise includes dairy science and technology, functional foods, food colloids, structures, and nutrition. He has published over 400 research papers in international journals. 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.

March 24th, 4:00 – 5:00 pm PT ​Hybrid. Refreshments will be served for in-person attendees.

Register in advance for the meeting:  https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_aYtuBuLRTu3oNim