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The Food Science Project
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The food science project, launched in July 2006, applies nuclear-based techniques to investigate fundamental and industrial problems of national significance in food science.
The current interests of the group relate to determining structure-function relationships in food-based systems, such as lipids, proteins and polysaccharides, with direct applications to food processing and human nutrition.
Neutron and X-ray scattering methods naturally feature extensively in our work with SANS being conducted primarily on our 40m instrument, Quokka [weblink]. Recent articles providing a general introduction to the subject can be found in http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tifs.2009.07.008 and http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781118373903.ch3/summary
Project team
Dr Elliot Gilbert (Project Leader)
Marta Martinez Sanz
Previous members:
Dr James Doutch
Dr Jaroslav Blazek
Ms Rhonda Tang
Dr Cat Kealley
Dr Amparo Lopez-Rubio
Dr Anna Sokolova
Dr Jitendra Mata
Dr Antonio Benedetto
Collaborators
- CSIRO Food Futures National Research Flagship
- CSIRO Food and Nutritional Sciences
- CSIRO Plant Industry
- University of Guelph
- University of Queensland Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences
- Unilever
- CSIRO and ANSTO food research collaboration
- University of Sydney, Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources
- University of New England
- University of Wageningen
- Department of Primary Industries, New South Wales
- International Food Research Collaboration
- Perten Instruments
For further information about the project and how our methods can be applied to food based systems, contact Dr Elliot Gilbert.