Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the two winners of the Fermentation 2021 Travel Awards for Junior Investigators, who will be awarded 600 CHF each towards their travel expenses to attend an international conference in 2021.
The 2021 Fermentation Travel Awards have been granted to:
Dr. Michela Verni, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in University of Bari, Bari, Italy. Her research focuses on food microbiology and achieves important results in the field of fermentation by selected lactic acid bacteria of cereals and different alternative vegetable matrices, by-products and surplus of the agri-food industry. In addition, her research concerned sourdough microbiology, characterization, and selection of microbial starters for nutritional, functional, and technological improvement of fermented foods.
Mr. Philipp Demling, a PhD student in RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany. His research focuses on the development of a fermentation strategy for the biochemical production of biosurfactants, especially rhamnolipids. Another focus of his study is the investigation of the ability of the obligate aerobic P. putida KT2440 to cope with fluctuating dissolved oxygen tensions.
We would like to express our gratitude to all the participants of the Fermentation 2021 Travel Awards and the Award Committee Members for their evaluation of all the excellent nominations.
Fermentation Editorial Office
Fermentation 2021 Travel Award
Winner
Michela Verni
University of Bari
Philipp Demling
Institute of Applied Microbiology, RWTH Aachen University
Award Committee
Prof. Thaddeus Ezeji
Chairman
The Ohio State University
Prof. Christian Kennes
UNiversity of La Coruña
Dr. Daniel Cozzolino
University of Queensland
Prof. Antonio Morata
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Dr. Charles Edwards
washington state university
Prof. Dr. Flavia Marinelli
Dr. Mohamed Koubaa
ESCOM Chimie
Dr. Nicolai S. Panikov
Northeastern University
Prof. Dr. Johannes Wöstemeyer
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Winner
Heinrich Kroukamp
Dr. Heinrich Kroukamp, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Macquarie University, North Ryde, Australia. His research focuses on the tailoring of yeast protein secretion to allow for increased production of industrially valuable proteins and expanding the su
Joana Resende Ortigueira
Ms. Joana Resende Ortigueira, a PhD student in Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (FCUL) and the National Laboratory for Energy and Geology (LNEG), Lisbon, Portugal. Her research focuses on the evaluation of food waste and its valorization th
Winner
Matthew L. Bochman
Dr. Matthew L. Bochman, an Assistant Professor at the Indiana University, IN, USA. His research focuses on the functions of RecQ and Pif1 family helicases to maintain genome integrity. He also works on yeasts and fermentation in connection with the craft
Francesca Berini
Dr. Francesca Berini, a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Insubria, Italy. Her research focuses on the production of recombinant proteins by fermentation, using Escherichia coli and streptomycetes and characterization of hydrolytic enzymes fro
