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View in browser Upcoming Alumni & Friends Event 24-01-2025 Structural food science - why is structure so important for foods? Our next FOOD Alumni & Friends event has now been scheduled for January 24, and we hope to see you there! This time we will focus on food structure, and you will be introduced to the use of research facilities in understanding food structures, how underlying interactions, such as with bacteria, can influence structure, and you will be introduced to examples of how our researchers use food structures in in different applications. See the programme and sign up here. News 28-09-2024 Common rheumatic disease can be prevented through the gut New project, led by Professor Morten Arendt Rasmussen, aims to prevent gout through medical nutrition. The project has received a EIC Pathfinder Grant of EUR 3,8 mil. Read more here. 03-07-2024 Fruit chunks in yogurt are a turn off for one age group in particular As part of her research on children's food preferences, postdoc Ching Yue Chow has pinpointed the ages where children are especially fussy about the texture of their food. Read more here. 08-10-2024 New Affiliated Professor: Jennifer Mahony This month, we had the pleasure of welcoming Jennifer Mahony from University College Cork to our ranks as Affiliated Professor of Dairy Microbiology. Read more here. 29-10-2024 Foto: Anders Fjeldberg Portrait piece on one of our Biosolutions students Uniavisen has interviewed Lokesh Venkatesan, one of our first students in the new MSc in Biosolutions, on his journey, his ambitions, and his job at Novo Nordisk. Read it here (in Danish). Job opportunities 15-11-2024 PhD fellowship in Computational biology for Integrative Microbiome and Metabolomics 15-11-2024 Postdoc in Chemometrics and Flavor Chemistry with focus on plant-based food systems and spectroscopy 24-11-2024 PhD fellowship in Casein Structure and Processing Events 03-12-2024 Uni Food Day 2024 Join in (online) for three exciting sessions on this year's of the Uni Food Day, focusing on plant-based ingredients. As always, the Uni Food Day will examine cutting-edge advancements and this year the overall theme is plant-based ingredients. This is the day where companies discuss online with university scientists. You will meet Tetra Pak on protein products, Ferm Food on food safety and Brannatura on off flavors in plant protein. Each theme will feature a presentation of a company challenge, followed by expert analyses from three researchers from the universities of Copenhagen, Aarhus and DTU. Sign up here. Check out the UCPH Alumni calendar here This newsletter is sent to subscribed alumni, students and associated relations from the Department of Food Science at the University of Copenhagen. If Food Science no longer has relevance for you, feel free to unsubscribe below. Send reply or questions regarding the newsletter content to thomas.pedersen@food.ku.dk Did someone forward this newsletter to you? Subscribe here. Unsubscribe this UCPH newsletter.