ChSE News - Food Science & Technology Seminars 2006

Food Science & Technology Seminars 2006

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 of a particular area. Seminars are held at 12 noon on Fridays in both Sessions, in Room M02 (at least for Session 1), in the Applied Science Building. Seminars usually run for 1 hour.

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

Check back regularly for updates. The program for Session 1 is now full, and planning of the program for Session 2 is now underway (LINK).

NOTE. Titles in brackets are tentative only.

Week	Date	Speakers	Topic
1	3 Mar	Dr Phillip Crisp	Introduction to Projects
2	10 Mar	A/Prof Julian Cox	Tales from the North Deep South
3	17 Mar	Dr Lisa Szabo, Chief Scientist, NSW Food Authority	Dioxins
4	24 Mar	Dr Robert Driscoll	[Sabbatical activities]
5	31 Mar	Tony Pavic	[Control of Salmonella in poultry]
6	7 Apr	Dr Peter Groves, Baiada Poultry	[Avian influenza - the H5N1 story]
7	14 Apr	NO SEMINAR - Good Friday
21 Apr		NO SEMINAR - Mid-Session Break
8	28 Apr	Nick Milne, PhD candidate (Industrial Chemistry)	Lithium batteries and the use of titanate-based electrodes
9	5 May	A/Prof Greg Leslie	Our modern water crisis and the search for an urban kidney
10	12 May	Professor Bernard Stewart, South Eastern Sydney and Illawarra Public Health Unit	Consumables, cancer and complexity
11	19 May	Dr Alison de Ambrosis	Mandatory folic acid fortification - friend or foe?
12	26 May	James Hsu, PhD candidate	Fate of added nitrates and nitrites to fermented foods
13	2 Jun	Adam Hyland, Watermark Patent and Trademark Attorneys	[Intellectual property]
14	9 Jun	Shyamala Vishnumohan, PhD candidate	LC-MS for natural folates: trouble shooting - sink or swim