Food Science & Technology Seminars

Session 2, 2007

The Food Science and Technology group conducts a seminar program, at which staff, higher degree research students and guest speakers present their research proposals, findings, or current status in a particular area. Seminars for Session 2, 2007 are likely to be held at 12 noon on Friday in Room M02, in the Applied Science Building. However, at this time (June 2007) the time and location is still being arranged and may change, so check back for further details.

Seminars run for approximately 1 hour in total, with 35-40 minutes for presentation and 10-15 minutes for questions and discussion.

If anyone has any suggestions for guest speakers and/or topics for the seminar program, please feel free to contact the coordinator, A/Prof Julian Cox via email (julian.cox@unsw.edu.au).

Please check back regularly for updates as the program develops and for details of upcoming seminars.

Remember!! It is COMPULSORY for ALL postgraduate, Year 4 project and Honours students to attend EVERY seminar!!

The program from Session 1 can be found here (LINK).

Week	Date	Speakers	Topic
1	27 Jul	Renuka Karrupuswamy	Utilization of prawn waste
2	3 Aug	Fiona Middleton, Mars Petcare Australia	Your 1st Year in the Big Wide World of Full Time Work
3	10 Aug	Diana Heery, Director, Science People	Career opportunities in food science
4	17 Aug	Kim-Yen Phan-Thien Eriyanto Yusnawan	Aflatoxin in the Indonesian peanut supply chain
5	24 Aug	Peter Sutherland, NSW Food Authority	The NSW Food Authority and its role in managing food safety at large-scale events
6	31 Aug	Christine Tan	Novel analytical methods for endocrine disrupting chemicals
7	7 Sep	NO SEMINAR - APEC PUBLIC HOLIDAY
8	14 Sep	Professor Rose Amal	Nanoparticles – worth more than their weight
9	21 Sep	Victoria Green	Microbiology of rum fermentation
28 Sep		NO SEMINAR - MID-SESSION BREAK
10	5 Oct	Ebtihal Khojah	Antioxidants in dates
11	12 Oct	James Hsu	Fate of nitrates and nitrites in food and body
12	19 Oct	Hugh Dircks	Cocoa fermentation
13	26 Oct	Tony Pavic	TBA
14	2 Nov	Jeremy Chenu	Bacteriophage therapy for the control of Campylobacter contamination in poultry

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