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On April 29, TalTech Science Day 2022 event took place at the Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology. Food Tech and Bioengineering group organised a workshop “Future food from microbes”. The workshop was devoted to the production of bread and introducing yeast-based cell factories. Participants were introduced to bread baking technologies and experiments improving nutritional value of bread and beyond. The general feedback of the workshops was very positive, 86 % of participants graded it with 9 or 10 in a 10-point scale. More about the workshop, in pictures.

Altogether, Science Day 2022 at Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology offered 19 different workshops that were attended by 89 participants. Majority of workshop participants were high school students, but almost every 4th participant was from outside educational system. Next time it is going to be more focused on high school students and is planned for the next year 2023.

You are welcome to participate in the following guest seminar.

Prof. Sergio Bordel Velasco

Department of Chemical Engineering and Environmental Technology, University of Valladolid, Spain

Title: Metabolism of methanotrophic bacteria. A Genome-Scale modeling perspective.

When: Thursday, October 14^th at 4 PM

Where: SCI-028 (on-line link will follow)

Link to publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=I2K5LLUAAAAJ

Host: Assoc. Prof. Petri-Jaan Lahtvee

TalTech and Food Tech and Bioengineering lab will be present at the Garage48 event Food 2021, organized in Tartu, Estonia.

Garage48 Food – greener food for a greener planet will take place from October 24-26, 2021 online and offline.

More info and registration: https://garage48.org/events/garage48-food

Prof. Petri Lahtvee was introducing the Sustainable Food Production and Food Economy 4.0 at the Estonian Society of Human Genetics conference, organized from September 30 to October 1st in Haapsalu, Estonia.

Full program: here

On the 28th of October 2021 (14h- 16h) a seminar will be given by Petri-Jaan Lahtvee (Assoc. Professor) on Circular Economy at ALU Freiburg (Germany), one of the partner in the Local Electron Delivery in Bioinks for Efficient Yeast Cell Factories project. 

This project of the Baltic-German University Liaison Office is supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) with funds from the Foreign Office of the Federal Republic Germany.

Here the link to access the conference

https://uni-freiburg.zoom.us/j/66501878693?pwd=Sk1WQk1HNXpIdlBIRjhJWGlSYVB0QT09

We had fun at the group outing at Nõmme Adventure park, climbing trees, ropes and free-falling from the trees:)

Thanks, Andreia, for organising it!