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AOCS Lipid Oxidation and Quality Division
Newsletter August 2008

Message from the Chair
Jim Barren

Beer Training in Seattle

The Lipid Oxidation and Quality Division (LOQ) held a beer tasting and training session at the Seattle AOCS meeting on Monday, May 19. This event was led by Mike Babb, a master brewer from Kalsec, Inc., who is also skilled in the art of beer tasting. We had about 35 people attend the event and we got a very positive response on the survey that was sent out: 79% of people surveyed stated that the event met their expectations, 88.9% stated that the event was good or excellent, and 81% said that they would like to see the event repeated next year.

LOQ Board Meeting

The LOQ Board met in Seattle and a brief list of actions and results are as follows. A question was raised regarding which journals we should use as sources for the selection of the Edwin Frankel Best Paper in Lipid Oxidation and Quality Award. The board members discussed this and agreed that we would continue to use both Lipids and JAOCS.

We made the following changes in responsibilities: Shane Zhou will be taking charge of the Edwin Frankel Award for the best LOQ paper for 2009. Amy Richards and Jill Winkler will both be helping Usha Thiyam with the technical program for 2009. They will be replacing Afaf Kamal-Eldin, who asked to step down from that role. I personally would like to thank Afaf for her years of service in that role for LOQ. She did a fantastic job for us. Thanks, Afaf!

Award Winners

We had several award winners this year in the LOQ section. They are as follows:

AOCS Fellows
We were privileged to have two of our members named AOCS Fellows. AOCS Fellows are veteran AOCS members whose achievements in science entitle them to exceptionally important recognition, or who have rendered unusually important service to the society. Candidates must have been members of the society for at least 15 years. The total number of AOCS Fellows cannot exceed 2% of the entire membership. This year's winners were Fereidoon Shahidi of the Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, and Monoj K. Gupta of MG Edible Oil Consulting International, USA. Congratulations on a well deserved honor, Fereidoon and Monoj!

Stephen S. Chang Award
The Stephen S. Chang Award recognizes a scientist or engineer who has made distinguished and significant accomplishments in basic research. This year's winner was Eric A. Decker of the University of Massachusetts - Amherst. Eric's Award address was "Understanding Rancidity in Complex Foods: How Physical Properties Impact Lipid Oxidation Chemistry." Congratulations, Eric!

Honored Student Award
Caitlin Boon of the University of Massachusetts - Amherst, a student of Eric Decker, won the Honored Student Award as well as the Hans Kaunitz Award and the Peter and Clare Kalustian Award. The Honored Student Award recognizes graduate students at any institution of higher learning who are conducting research in fats or lipids. The Hans Kaunitz Award recognizes outstanding performance and merit of a graduate student within the geographical boundaries of the Northeast Section of the AOCS. The Peter and Clare Kalustian Award recognizes outstanding merit and performance of an honored student, who will present a paper at the annual meeting. Caitlin's award presentation was "Mechanisms of Lycopene Degradation in Oil-in-Water Emulsions." Congratulations, Caitlin!

Edwin Frankel Award for Best Paper in Lipid Oxidation and Quality
The annual Edwin Frankel Award for Best Paper in Lipid Oxidation and Quality was presented at the LOQ luncheon to Karin Schwarz, Anja Heins, Tobias Sokolowski and Heiko Stockmann for their article in Lipids vol 42(6): 573-582, entitled "The location of Phenolic Antioxidants and Radicals at Interfaces Determines Their Activity." Dr. Edwin Frankel presented the award to Karin Schwarz on behalf of her team. Karin Schwarz was then featured as the LOQ luncheon speaker and where she gave a great presentation on the work from this paper. Thanks and congratulations ,Karin, Anja, Tobias and Heiko!

Program Plans

I would like to thank everyone involved in pulling together this year's technical program - both organizers and session chairs - for your time and dedication to a creating a quality event. We had great attendance at our sessions this year with the omega-3 session having a tremendous showing and good showings for the other sessions as well. Most impressive was the general session in the Wednesday afternoon time slot. Normally there are very few people left to attend on Wednesday afternoon. We obviously had some good talks drawing people in for this session.

* no House Count form available

History of AOCS

The 2009 meeting will be the 100th anniversary of AOCS. Divisional is trying to put together a timeline of events over the last 100 years. Do you have photos or stories of important events for LOQ or AOCS from the last 100 years that you can share? If so, please contact Jim Barren (JBarren@Kalsec.com), Charlotte Jacobsen (cja@dfu.min.dk), John Weaver (JWeaver@Kalsec.com) or Cliff Hall (Clifford.Hall@ndsu.edu) and we will get those items to those in charge of the timeline.

LOQ Officer Election for 2009

Interested in being an LOQ board member or know someone who would? Please submit names to the LOQ past chairperson (Clifford.Hall@ndsu.edu). Names will be collected until December 2008 for announcement of the candidate slate in January.

Thanks to AOCS Staff

I would like to thank some of our AOCS staff members who gave us great support in Seattle: Barb Semeraro, Kathy Atchley, Joy McClaugherty, Donna Elbon, Jamie Lourash and Doreen Berning. If I've left anyone out, it is by accident and not intent! Thanks to all of you for the support not only at the meeting, but all year long.

—Jim

Also in this newsletter:

Member Highlights:
Division Member Profiles of Monoj K. Gupta, Fereidoon Shahidi, Caitlin Boon

Soybeans: Chemistry, Production, Processing, and Utilization
AOCS Monograph Series on Oilseeds, Volume 2, new from AOCS Press

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