EEA School on Adding Value to Food Side Streams
A third of all food globally is lost and wasted. Recognizing food production side streams as valuable raw materials and finding their new applications in different industries is key to a sustainable use of resources and reduction of food waste. Would you care to help us fight for the future of food? We are searching for motivated and talented students who will join us in a School in Iceland and work with us to transform side streams from wasteful to tasteful. Using personal experience and university backgrounds, 10 candidates from Poland and 10 recruits from Iceland will create new concepts and business ideas on how to valorise side streams and reduce food waste.
In a 10-day course coached by professional tutors from Matís Iceland, University of Iceland and Institute of Animal Reproduction and Food Research (Poland) the participants will explore the most burning topics related to agri-food side streams. How to control them? How to recognize their value? What is their environmental and social imprint? How to manage better and add value to animal and plant-based raw materials? Exposed to state-of-the art enterprises and top-class experts they will design and develop business models to find the new value in waste. Participants will work in interdisciplinary teams, identifying problems, prototyping viable solutions with a validated value proposition and pitching their projects in front of a panel of professionals.
EEA School in Adding Value to Food Side Streams culminates with a Food Hackathon that will give students the floor to put their new knowledge and skills into work!
PROGRAMME STRUCTURE
Application and details here.
Radio Academy of Healthy Eating vol. 2
Radio Academy of Healthy Eating in the air again! This is the 2nd edition of a popular series of radio broadcasts starring scientists from the Institutte of Animal Reprouction and Food Research PAS. We are back with a next serving of knolwedge about food and healthy eating habits.
From August 10 to September 10, every Tuesday and Frida 1:00-2:00 PM, you will get a unique Chance to meet with the food research experts – microbiologists, chemists, biologists and food technlogists, who will familiarise you the facts and curiosities on heatly eating and dispel myths around nutriton. The campaign is a part of the EIT Food #AnnualFoodAgenda project.
Can maternal diet influence the health of both her children but also the next generations? What is a TOFI syndrome when it comes to obesity? How can we protect oursleves from pathogenic bacteria in our kitchen? Why is it worth to reach for fish from close breeding systems? Who flexitarians are? Are you one of them? What role does rasperries play in a fight against liver malfunctions? How to produce natural probiotics yourself? These are just a few topics the researchers will elaborate upon in the upcoming #AnnualFoodAgenda campaign.
EIT Food RIS Summer School in Targeted Nutrition
EIT Food RIS Summer School in Targeted Nutrition
6th September – 1th October 2021 – Online
WOULD YOU LIKE TO BECOME ONE OF THE INNOVATION LEADERS OF THE FUTURE GASTRONOMY SECTOR?
Apply now to RIS Summer School in Targeted Nutrition powered by EIT Food. Join the group of ambitious and creative young people!
Get support from multinational consortium of food researchers, industry experts, and professional chefs and co-create new concepts and products that address the needs and challenges faced by allergic and hypersensitive consumers.
In our school, you will get state-of-the-art knowledge and skills around management of food safety hazards and the development of targeted nutrition solutions.
You can rebuild the trust of consumers in food services, just believe that food hypersensitivity is not only a challenge but also an opportunity!
YOU CANNOT MISS IT!!!
More information on how to apply SOON.
New roles
In 2021 researchers of Institute of Animal Reproduction and Food Research were nominated for new functions related to the scientific and editorial activity within the framework of organisations operating outside the structure of the Institute.
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) nominated prof. Ryszard Amarowicz for Associate Editor in the Analytical Chemistry section of Molecules Journal. At the same time Prof. Amarowisz was invited to the Editorial Board of Food Chemistry – Molecular Sciences Journal (Elsevier).
Prof. Agnieszka Wacławik joined the Editorial Board of Biology of Reproduction Journal as a Member of the Board of Reviewing Editors.
Dr. Wiesław Wiczkowski was nominated for the Board Vice President of the Polish Metabolomics Society for 2021 – 2025.
Congratulations!
Reproductive Biology with a new Impact Factor and CiteScore
In the latest Journal Citation Reports citation ranking, Reproductive Biology quarterly was classified in the fourth quartile (Q4) with IF2020 = 2.376 and IF5 Year = 2.543. This is the highest Impact Factor in the history of the journal. Compared to last year’s assessment, the indicator increased by 0.514 points. (więcej…)
Newest Impact Factor and CiteScore of PJFNS quarterly
We are proud to announce the newest metrics of Polish Journal of Food and Nutrition Sciences provided by Clarivate Analytics in the latest Journal Citation Report: IF2020 = 2.111 and IF5 Year = 2.672.
We are also pleased the share a high Journal’s rank in SCOPUS, with CiteScore2020 = 3.7 and SNIP2020 = 0.909.
We greatly appreciate the support of all Editors, Advisory Board Members, Reviewers, Authors, and Readers in contributing to this great success!
Distinction from the Committee of Animal Science and Aquaculture of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Scientific achievement of an interdisciplinary team of scientists with the participation of Prof. Jerzy Juśkiewicz and Prof. Zenon Zduńczyk received the Distinction of the Committee of Animal Sciences and Aquaculture of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 2021.
Achievement „Technologies for a significant reduction in the emission of greenhouse gases, nitrogen and phosphorus to the natural environment without a negative impact on the production results of poultry” was considered outstanding and marked with a high implementation potential.
Using the technologies developed by the Team in slaughter poultry production, it is possible to i.a. ensure efficient use the feed and obtain better results of rearing chickens for slaughter, as well as reduce environmental pollution while improving the yield and quality of meat.
Awarded team led by Prof. Damian Józefiak consists of 22 scientists representing 9 scientific and research units, incl. Department of Biological Functions of Food IAR&FR PAS, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Sciences of the University of Life Sciences in Poznań, Department of Animal Nutrition and Feed Science of the National Research Institute in Balice and the Faculty of Animal Bioengineering of the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn.
Katarzyna Walendzik awarded FNP START scholarship
Katarzyna Walendzik, a PhD student in the Regenerative Biology Group, received a prestigious scholarship from the Foundation for Polish Science.
The START program of the Foundation for Polish Science is the oldest scholarship program in Poland for the best young scientists from all fields of science. It supports outstanding young researchers and encourages them to further scientific development. The competition assesses the quality of the candidates’ academic achievements to date.
The „100” of researchers awarded this year were selected from among 1,034 candidates.
The full list of START 2021 winners is available here.
Katarzyna Walendzik is a PhD student at the Department of Biological Functions of Food in the Regenerative Biology Group led by Prof. Barbara Gawrońska-Kozak. In the research carried out as part of her doctoral dissertation, she showed for the first time that the activity of the transcription factor Foxn1 regulates the diet-induced susceptibility to obesity and indicated the molecular basis for the involvement of Foxn1 in the adipogenic potential of skin cells.
Outstanding research results prompted her to further investigate this topic and prepare her own research project entitled „The role of the epidermal transcription factor Foxn1 in the modulation and regulation of intradermal fat cells (dWAT)”, which received funding from the National Science Center in the Preludium 16 competition.
Katarzyna Walendzik is the co-author of 8 publications and 14 conference presentations presented at congresses in Europe and the USA, and a graduate of two international internships at Tulane University School of Medicine, USA and Genome Editing Core, Biocity, Turku, Finland.
The award received by Ms Katarzyna Walendzik is all the more significant since, as mentioned by the FNP awarding Committee, „this year the candidates represented a very high academic level”.
