Research and Teaching Seminars: Assistant or Associate Professor in Food Science
We will be interviewing 3 candidates for the position of Assistant or Associate Professor of Food Science, starting April 15. All interviews will be done online. We have included the seminar information below, and will be sending out Zoom links shortly. Please hold these times in your calendar. We hope that you will be able to attend and to provide feedback to the selection committee. A copy of the advertisement can be found here. If you would like to meet with any of the candidates, 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
Grad Student Roundtable
Open to all LFS graduate students
April 15, 3:00-4:00pm
Teaching Seminar: Dairy Science
April 16, 11:00am-12:00pm
Chalk Talk: Blue Sky Research
April 16, 1:00-2:00pm
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. Since 2018 he is 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
Grad Student Roundtable
Open to all LFS graduate students
April 21, 4:00-5:00pm
Teaching Seminar: Electroporation and pulsed electric field technologies for food science and engineering
April 22, 11:00am-12:00pm
Chalk Talk: Food and Environmental Bioengineering Laboratory: training future responsible food experts in an academic environment
April 22, 1:00-2:00pm
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
Grad Student Roundtable
Open to all LFS graduate students
April 28, 3:00-4:00pm
Teaching Seminar: Immunoassays in Food Analysis
April 29, 11:00am-12:00pm
Chalk Talk: Innovative Analytical Technologies and Advanced Materials: New Opportunities for Sustainable Food Production
April 29, 1:00-2:00pm
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