Good morning, undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff in the Department of Food Science and Technology

I hope you had a great start to your semester.

On behalf of the department, I would like to invite everyone to attend any or all the seminar sessions this fall, every Thursday, starting September 12, from 12 to 1 in room 277. The reception afterward is in room 275, where you can network with the speakers, students, and faculty.

I also want to recognize and appreciate Dr. Martini's support, including providing funds to bring some speakers, our faculty, and the Phi Tau Sigma society for inviting outstanding speakers, and our staff for helping with the organization and logistics.

The speakers and seminar dates are below so you can mark your calendars. Information of seminars will be updated on the seminar webpage on our webpagehttps://foodscience.unl.edu/seminar-series/.

Week 3 (12-Sep-24) Speaker: Nirupam Aichhttps://engineering.unl.edu/cee/faculty/nirupam-aich/, PhD. Associate Professor and McNeel Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, UNL Title: To Be Announced (TBA) - Week 4 (19-Sep-24) Speaker: Ashutosh Mangalam<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://mangalam.lab.uiowa.edu/__;!!PvXuogZ4sRB2... >, PhD. Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, The University of Iowa Title: Microbiome Maestro: A Dietary Approach to Harmonizing Health in Multiple Sclerosis - Week 5 (26-Sep-24) Speaker: Kurt Piepenbrinkhttps://foodscience.unl.edu/person/dr-kurt-piepenbrink/, PhD. Assistant Professor, Department of Food Science and Technology and Department of Biochemistry, UNL Title: TBA - Week 6 (3-Oct-24) Speaker: Jason Bush<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://solnul.com/about-us/__;!!PvXuogZ4sRB2p-t... >, PhD. Chief Scientific Officer, Solnul® MSP Starch Products Inc. Title: Using Serum Metabolomics from a Resistant Starch Clinical Trial to Investigate Mechanisms of Prebiotic Activity - Week 7 (10-Oct-24) Speaker: Hyun-Seob Songhttps://foodscience.unl.edu/person/dr-hyun-seob-song/, PhD. Associate Professor and Computational Biologist, Department of Food Science and Technology and Department of Biological Systems Engineering, UNL Title: New Wineskins for New Wine: Advances in Microbiome Modeling for Omics Integration - Week 8 (17-Oct-24) Speaker: Andreia Bianchini-Huebnerhttps://epd.unl.edu/profile/abianchini2, PhD. Associate Professor, Department of Food Science and Technology, UNL Title: TBA - Week 9 (24-Oct-24) Speaker: Yu Wang<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://crec.ifas.ufl.edu/people/faculty/yu-wang... >, PhD. Associate Professor, Department of Food Science and Citrus Research and Education Center, University of Florida

Title: TBA - Week 10 (31-Oct-24) Speaker: Lauren Jackson<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauren-s-jackson-b29... >, PhD. Supervisory Food Technologist, Department of Health and Human Services. Title: TBA - Week 11 (7-Nov-24) This is a student seminar followed by a workshop TBA Speaker: Steven Kaiser<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-kaiser-2a0b3b... >, PhD student supervised by Dr. Ciftci and Principal Scientist, Conagra

Title: TBA - Week 12 (14-Nov-24) Speaker: Mark Nelson<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://sustbeef.com/__;!!PvXuogZ4sRB2p-tU!D9Im9... > Title: Sustainable Beef - Week 13 (21-Nov-24) Speaker: Allergens Speaker TBA Title: TBA I hope to see you all there

To book an appointment with me please use the following link to see my availability and make the booking online Book time with Rossana Villa Rojas<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://outlook.office.com/bookwithme/user/62eef... >

Rossana Villa-Rojas

Asst Prof Practice

University of Nebraska–Lincoln

Food Science & Technology

1901 N 21st street room 263

Lincoln, NE 68588-6205