Our colleague Belén Llobregat has received the Award for the best oral communication from the VI Meeting of the National Network on Mycotoxins and Toxigenic Fungi and their decontamination processes (MICOFOOD), for her work "Characterization of Penicillium expansum mutants defective in patulin production as potential biocontrol agents ". Belén Llobregat is working on her doctoral thesis under the supervision of Ana Rosa Ballester and Luis González, in the Group of Postharvest Physiology,...
8. November 2021 - 7:28
1. October 2021 - 7:41
Last Friday, September 24, the Mediterranean Night of the Researchers, MEDNIGHT 2021, was held once again. This time it was located in section XI of the Jardin del Turia, in front of the Palau de la Música in València. The IATA was represented by the laboratory of Mª Carmen Collado, with the workshop "What do bacteria eat? This workshop of the Institute of Agrochemistry and Food Technology (IATA, CSIC) seeks to inform about the importance of a healthy diet to have an adequate intestinal...
27. September 2021 - 2:00
On September 23, Luis González Candelas, from the Postharvest Pathology Group, participated in the event "Advances in the control of postharvest diseases", organized by Phytoma Meet's, with the talk "From the study of virulence mechanisms to the trial of new rot control treatments during fruit postharvest ". This Meeting placed special emphasis on reducing the use of fungicides and new control methods, due to the clear need to develop new and effective methods to control postharvest fruit...
24. September 2021 - 7:48
The IATA, represented by Teresa Jiménez, from the Technology Transfer Unit, has participated in the last edition of Expoquimia, which was held in Barcelona from September 14, 2021 to September 17, 2021, with the aim of promoting the technological developments of our groups research. Expoquimia - International Chemistry Meeting, is an event held every two years and where the main companies and most relevant institutions in the Chemistry sector attend. More information in http://www.expoquimia....
14. September 2021 - 10:22
Congratulations to our colleague José Gimeno Alcañiz, who has won the first prize for the story in Spanish in the adult category of the 11th edition of Inspiraciencia with his story "The vaccine." The jury for the eleventh edition has awarded nine first prizes and eleven finalist prizes within the adult and youth categories of the four languages (Spanish, Catalan, Galician and Basque). Two public awards have also been awarded, granted by popular vote through the web. In addition, this year,...
10. September 2021 - 2:00
The Valencian Innovation Agency (AVI) has selected the Company Transfer and Valorisation Project BIOPRED, led by Dr. Yolanda Sanz, from the Microbial Ecology, Nutrition and Health Group, and two Strategic Projects in Cooperation with Industry, VALUÒS and BIOCLEAN, led by Drs. Amparo López, from the Packaging Group, and Julio Polaina from the Molecular Engineering of enzymes Group, respectively. A new functional ingredient capable of reducing the risk of diseases such as diabetes (BIOPRED...
28. July 2021 - 2:00
On July 16, our colleague Concha Collar retired. Doctor in Chemical Sciences, and CSIC Research Professor in the group of Cereals and Products Derived from Cereals, Concha was Head of the Food Science Department in the period 2005-2008. Her professional career has had a clearly international character, actively participating in different associations such as the International Association of Cereal Science and Technology (ICC), from which she hold the Presidency in 2007-2008. Her work has been...
22. July 2021 - 2:00
Our colleague Elvira Costell, who worked at IATA until her retirement in 2013, is the protegonist of a new mural for the 'Dones de Ciència' project, made by the artist Btoy and which is located in the CEIP San Juan de Ribera de Burjassot. This project aims to make visible and pay tribute to scientists of national and international reference. Doctor in Chemical Sciences from the University of Valencia (1979), Elvira Costell was a CSIC Research Professor working at IATA, where she directed the...
21. July 2021 - 2:00
Our colleagues Aurora Lozano-Omeñaca and Florencia Rey, from the Group of Physiology, Pathology and Postharvest Biotechnology, have been awarded at the XVII Hispano-Portuguese Congress of Plant Biology (BP2021) with the prize of the Spanish Society of Plant Biology to the best scientific communications presented by researchers under 35 years of age for a joint work with their thesis directors, María Jesús Rodrigo y Lorenzo Zacarías.
29. June 2021 - 14:33
Vicente Monedero, from the Lactic Bacteria and Probiotics group, gave yesterday, June 28, the conference "Lactic bacteria to alleviate metal toxicity" within the framework of the XXVIII Spanish Microbiology Society Congress, which is being held this week virtually. This year the National Congress of Microbiology coincides with the 75th Anniversary of the founding of the SEM, therefore a specially selected program has been developed around three general thematic axes (global health,...