AOCS Protein and Co-Products Division Newsletter April 2008
Message from the Chair
Keshun Liu
The 2008 AOCS Annual Meeting and Expo is next month (May 18-21, Seattle, WA). Once again, AOCS and its Protein & Co-Products (PCP) Division have prepared high-quality technical and social programs for this year's Annual Meeting. There will be more than 650 technical presentations in twelve interest areas, more than 100 exhibits, plus pre-meeting short courses, hot topic sessions, and tours of local research and processing facilities. More than 1,500 academic, governmental, and industrial colleagues from more than 60 countries are expected to attend the meeting. On the PCP Division level, thanks to the efforts of Mike Dowd, PCP vice chair and PCP technical program chair, and session organizers, we will have seven oral sessions and one poster session. The full program of our division is listed on the AOCS website. So do not hesitate to register now.
The PCP board meeting will be held on Sunday, May 18, from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m., along with other division board meetings, in the same big room. In order to attend this meeting, some board members are advised to start their trip on Saturday. The PCP roundtable discussion is scheduled on Tuesday, May 20, from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Open to all meeting participants, its purpose is planning technical programs of future annual meetings. I invite and encourage every one of you to participate in this discussion and provide your ideas and suggestions.
Again, on Tuesday, May 20, in the evening, our division will hold the annual recognition/dinner event. This year 's event will be held at the Washington Athletic Club, just a few blocks from the Washington State Convention & Trade Center. It features a social hour with cash bar, a full-service dinner, recognition of winners of the ADM Best Paper Awards, and a dinner speech by Dr. Ray Hilborn. Dr. Hilborn is a professor of Fisheries Management in the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington. His short bio was presented in our February newsletter. He will talk about the current status and challenges of world fishery and the role of plant proteins in sustaining the industry. The full-course dinner menu has been selected, including mixed greens salad, salmon and chicken combination, chocolate marbled cheesecake, freshly baked rolls, sticky buns, coffee, tea, milk, and iced tea. Tickets for the event can be purchased at the time of meeting registration. The ticket prices are set at $55 early/$65 standard. The student price will be $20, the rest is subsidized by the PCP Division.
Also, to keep the tradition for the 2008 Annual Meeting we will run the PCP T-shirt drive. Thanks to the effort of PCP Secretary/Treasurer Phil Kerr, Solae (St. Louis) has agreed to be the sponsor again. Solae was also the sponsor for PCP T-shirt drive during the 2006 Annual Meeting.
A new event this year our members may be interested in is the tour to a nearby research facility—the Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Manchester Research Station. The tour is arranged by AOCS in conjunction with the Agricultural Microscopy Division, the PCP Division, and the Processing Division.
2008 is the PCP Division's election year. Mila Hojilla-Evangelista, PCP immediate past chair, is handling the process. At the time of writing this message, the election has not been completed yet. So, I encourage all our members to vote, and convey my congratulations to all the members of the new PCP board. For candidates who are not selected this year, please do not get discouraged. Continue your involvement and you will be elected next time.
Finally, my term as chair ends this year. It has been my privilege to serve the division board for the past ten years (as member-at-large, book and publication rep., secretary/treasurer, chair elect, and chair). I have encountered challenges and spent many hours of volunteering services. Yet at the same time, I have reaped many rewards of professional service. I am grateful to past and present officers and members of the PCP Division, AOCS staff and colleagues for your encouragement and support.
See you all in Seattle.
Keshun Liu
President, Protein & Co-Products Division
NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center Tour
Time: Wednesday, May 21, 2008, 11:45 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
Place: The Northwest Fisheries Science Center's Manchester Research Station is at the forefront of research on captive rearing, disease control, hatchery technology, fish genetics and fish identification for both Pacific salmon, and marine groundfish. Located on Clam Bay in Western Puget Sound, Manchester has state-of-the-art facilities, including the largest floating marine net-pen research complex on the West Coast and the NOAA Fisheries' largest single pass saltwater system, with the capacity to UV-sterilize 1,500 gallons per minute. (http://www.nwfsc.noaa.gov/research/facilities/manchester.cfm)
Registration: The registration fee for this tour is $50 (early rate) or $60 (standard rate), which includes transportation via motorcoach and ferry. The tour will depart from the Washington State Convention & Trade Center. Click here for more information.
Protein and Co-Products Activities in the Annual Meeting
Board Meeting
Sunday May 18, 1:00-2:30 p.m.
Roundtable Discussion
Tuesday, May 20, 12:30-1:30 p.m.
Division Dinner
Tuesday, May 20, 6:30-9:30 p.m.
Washington Athletic Club
Message from the Secretary / Treasurer
Phil Kerr
The 2008 Annual Meeting is approaching rapidly and, as Keshun has mentioned in his article, promises to be a great opportunity to foster ongoing education and career development for the PCP Division membership. I encourage you to take every opportunity to attend the technical and poster sessions as well as any tours or short courses that are of professional interest to you.
2008 Annual ADM Award
It is my great pleasure to announce the winners of the PCP Division's awards for outstanding technical contributions to AOCS publications. As a division, we again thank the Archer Daniels Midland Co. for their support of the awards. As in years past, awards are made for outstanding contributions in two technical categories: Chemistry/Nutrition and Engineering/Technology. Before I announce the awards, I wanted to give you a brief reminder of the process that we used to make the selections and final awards. Manuscripts and articles from AOCS journals (e.g., JAOCS) and trade magazines (e.g., inform) are eligible for consideration. Between the two categories, nine nominated contributions from 2007 issues were selected for consideration based on their overall quality, timeliness, significance, and validity of experimental design and methods.
To make the final selection, a jury of AOCS volunteers from the academic, government, and industry sectors of our division was chosen to review all of the nominations and rank them for their technical excellence. As secretary/treasurer, it is my responsibility to tabulate the votes and communicate the results to the PCP Division chair, AOCS, and the editor of JAOCS. The winners are then sent letters of notification and encouraged to attend the PCP Division dinner as it is at this event that the winners will receive formal recognition of their award in front of their colleagues by our division chair.
On behalf of the AOCS Protein & Co-Products Division, it is my pleasure to announce the winners of the 2008 ADM Award:
- Nutrition/Chemistry: Boon-Seang Chu, Sosaku Ichikawa, Sumiyo Kanafusa and Mitsutoshi Nakajima. "Preparation of Protein-Stabilized Nanodispersions by Emulsification-Evaporation Method," November 2007, JAOCS, 84:1053-1062
- Engineering/Technology: Nicolas Deak, Patricia Murphy, and Lawrence Johnson. "Characterization of Fractionated Soy Proteins Produced by a New Simplified Procedure," February 2007, JAOCS, 84:137-149.
The two winning manuscripts will be published in our division newsletter, beginning with the Nutrition / Chemistry winner in this issue (this is available only to division members—you may access the complete paper by following the link from the email newsletter). The Engineering / Technology winner will be published in the next issue.
Please take time to congratulate the winners. On behalf of the PCP Division board, I also want to express my thanks for all the ADM Award jurors for the time they devoted to the award's review process.
The Protein & Co-Product Division welcomes the following new members:
Keith Bailey
Inland Empire Oilseeds LLC
USARichard H. Barton
N Hunt Moore & Assocs
USACindy Bower
USDA
USARita M. Delrue
Cargill/Cerestar
BelgiumTanya Der
University of Saskatchewan
CanadaJeffrey D. Hooker
Phylein Inc
USAIsabel Hua
University of Saskatchwan
ChinaHisham Ibrahim
Kagoshima University
JapanHamid Joraty
Shaddasht
CanadaMohamed Ahmed Khan
Cevena Bioproducts Inc
CanadaEunice Li-Chan
University of British Columbia
CanadaChristos Michas
LevCot SA
GreeceKristof R. Reiter
Reiter Scientific Consulting
USAKenji Sato
Kyoto Prefectural University
JapanCarlos E. Soza Barrundia
Inland Empire Oilseeds LLC
USAChibuike C. Udenigwe
University of Manitoba
CanadaAlexis Udovenko
Ilyichevsk Oils & Fats Indus Complex
UkraineHui Wang
Iowa State University
USARosie G. Weiss
Monsanto Co
USAJianping Wu
University of Alberta
Canada
Finally, I again want to emphasize that our Protein & Co-Products Division is in sound financial shape with a current balance of $23,843.56. We welcome suggestions for how the division would like to utilize some of these monies to further our mission within AOCS. Feel free to send them to me at pkerr@solae.com or make the effort to contact me at the upcoming meeting in Seattle.
Candidates for the 2008 Elections of the Officers of Protein & Co-Products Division
Dr. Mila P. Hojilla-Evangelista
For Chairperson
Rotimi Aluko
- I graduated with a Ph.D. in food science from The University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada in 1996 with a specialization in protein chemistry. I am currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Human Nutritional Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg. My research interests include food protein-derived bioactive peptides and protein functionality in food systems. Since joining AOCS in 2000 I have participated as an invited speaker in organized symposia during the annual AOCS conferences. I am a regular reviewer of manuscripts submitted to the JAOCS and have published my research work in JAOCS. I was a member of the organizing committee for the 2001 conference of the Canadian Section of AOCS held in Winnipeg. I have also been Chair of the Manitoba Section of CIFST (Canadian Institute of Food Science & Technology) for the past two years and will be completing my term this April. I strongly believe in selfless service to professional organizations such as AOCS because of the great role the organization plays in sustaining scientific excellence and industrial growth.
For Vice-Chairperson
Phoebe Qi
- Phoebe Qi is a research chemist in the Dairy Processing and Product Research Unit, Eastern Regional Research Center (ERRC), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). She has been a member-at-large government representative for the Protein and Co-products Division of the American Oil Chemists' Society since 2006. Dr. Qi holds a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and has been with USDA-ARS-ERRC since 1999. Her research interests lie in the interface between protein chemistry and structural biology, and its applications to the development of value-added food and non-food products utilizing dairy proteins. She has been involved in research projects aimed at understanding the effect of processing on the molecular stability, protein structure-function relationships and protein-protein interactions in dairy products using modern chemical physical techniques including spectroscopy, microscopy and computational modeling.
For Secretary/Treasurer
Phil Kerr
- Phil Kerr is currently executive director of Discovery Research at Solae, LLC. His field of research includes soybean-based ingredient science and technology, grain and oilseed biochemistry and genetics, and processing / bioprocessing technology of food ingredients. He has been a member of AOCS since 1993 and was previously a member-at-large, industry representative in the Protein & Co-Products Division. He is presently serving as secretary/treasurer, having taken over the responsibilities when the previous officer retired in 2007.
For Member-at-Large, Academia
Stephanie Jung
- I am an assistant professor in the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at Iowa State University. I have a master's degree in biotechnology and food industry from ENSAIA, Nancy, France and a Ph.D. in food engineering and food processing from ENITIAA, Nantes, France. I joined AOCS in 2002 and started attending annual meetings the same year. I have published several of my papers in JAOCS and I am co-chair of the session on "Effects of Processing on Protein Functionality" for the Protein & Co-Products Division at the upcoming annual meeting. My research interest is on nontraditional food processing, including high-pressure processing and aqueous extraction of oilseeds. I am interested in optimizing processing parameters and assessing their effect on functionality of proteins.
Yoshinori Mine
- I am presently a professor in the Department of Food Science, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. I obtained my B.S. and M.S. in food science from Shinshu University, Japan, and a Ph.D. in biochemistry from Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology. My research fields include protein chemistry, egg science, food immunology, food allergy, protein engineering, peptides, neutraceuticals, functional foods, food analysis and molecular genetics.
For Member-at-Large, Government
Janitha Wanasundara
- Janitha Wanasundara is a research scientist in the Bioproducts and Bioprocessing National Theme of Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada, based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Canada. She holds a B.Sc. (Hon) degree in Agriculture from Sri Lanka and M.Sc. and Ph.D degrees in food chemistry from Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. Her research interests include seed chemistry, food protein functionality and bioactive peptides. Current research activities are focused on developing protein-based bioproducts from brassica oilseeds and pulses for food and non-food applications. She holds adjunct professor status in the University of Saskatchewan and involves in graduate student supervision and training also. She has been an active member of the AOCS and Canadian section of AOCS (CAOCS), and served as an organizing committee member of the 2005 CAOCS annual meeting.
For Member-at-Large, Industry
Nicolas Deak
- I obtained my B.S. in food technology in 1998 from Universidad Catolica Argentina and my Ph.D. from Iowa State University in 2004. I have been a member of AOCS and the Protein & Co-Products Division since 2002. I have presented numerous papers at AOCS Annual meetings and also have published in JAOCS several papers on soy protein processing. In 2003, I was given the AOCS Honored Student Award for my work with soy protein. My research interests while working towards my Ph.D. were focused on soy protein fractionation. From graduation in Dec. 2004 until Oct. 2007, I worked for the Center for Crops Utilization Research, focusing on economic development for the state of Iowa where I was basically helping Iowa-based soy processing companies with their science. In October 2007, I joined Solae, LLC, where I am working as a process scientist.
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