The Food Centre’s new Advanced Food Ingredient Centre will house our “Fermentation and Bioengineering Centre of Excellence” to support developing and commercializing novel functional ingredients for clients from all parts of the world. As one of the pivotal technologies, precision fermentation enables the development of innovative ingredients with improved functionality and additional health benefits for consumers. The Centre focuses on submerged and solid-state fermentation systems with downstream processing equipment capabilities. The ingredients and co-products derived from fermentation can be used for food and pet-food applications. https://www.linkedin.com/company/sk-food-industry-development-centre/mycompany/.
The alternative
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Pooba Ganeshan
Researcher- Host institution: Saskatchewan Food Industry Development Centre Inc.
- Position: Principal investigator
- Discipline: Agricultural science, Biochemistry, Bioengineering, Biology, Cellular biology, Chemistry, Computational science, Food engineering, Food science, Mechanical engineering, Nutritional science, Other, Plant biology
- Alternative protein type: Fermentation, Plant-based
- Collaboration opportunities: Industry partnership, Joint research, Providing guest lectures, Sharing equipment or facilities, Technical consultation
- Hiring for: Graduate students, Postdoctoral fellows, Research staff, Undergraduate students
- Lab equipment: Biochemistry equipment (purification/separation/HPLC/GC/MS), Microbiology equipment, Microscopy equipment, Pilot plants, Sensory and food science analysis equipment, Standard molecular biology lab equipment (DNA/RNA/proteins/cells)
- Pilot equipment: Dairy processing, Fermentation, Fruit & vegetable processing, Meat processing, Oils & emulsion processing, Plant protein processing
- Region: North America
- Technology focus: Bioprocess design, Computational modeling, Crop development, End product formulation and manufacturing, Food safety and quality, Ingredient optimization
- Location: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada