Learn more about neutron and X-ray large scale facilities and these techniques can answer challenging questions in food science and technology!
Welcome to the 2nd Northern Lights on Food Masterclass
Where: LINXS, workshop room on the 5th floor (Ideon Delta 5, Scheelevägen 19, Lund)
When: Lund Nov 15-19, 2021
Who: All scientists from industry and academia new to X-ray and neutron methods
Cost: The course if free of charge but with a no-show fee of 1500 SEK.
Certificate/credits: A certificate will be issued after the course. PhD are recommended to inquire with their institutions about credits. The recommendation is 5 ECTS (preparation time + class time and assignment 125 hours)
Application deadline: Nov 7
Structural properties of food are multi-dimensional and we therefore need to understand their structure at various length and time scales. They control storage qualities, uptake and nutritional value as well as texture and perception. Key challenges for food scientist and product developers in academia and food industry concerns the whole production, from raw material quality, starting with seed quality and plant breeding, to food processing and the final product. The quality of the product is also determined by packaging and how the food interacts with packaging during storage and consumer handling.
Techniques available at Large-Scale Research Infrastructure MAX IV Laboratory and the European Spallation Source, ESS, include spectroscopic, imaging and scattering techniques based on either X-rays or neutrons. These techniques allow us to obtain detailed compositional maps of food materials and obtain structural information ranging from the atomic, nano- to the micrometer scale not only of the final products, but also during processing and when the food product is digested.
This is the second Northern Lights on Food Masterclass. During the initial 2.5 days you will acquire basic knowledge of selected techniques accessed in large scale facilities, and how to design experiments with particular attention to the complexity of food systems. We will this year then focus on imaging and you will also be able to attend a practical demonstration of tomography and provide you with the basic knowledge on imaging analysis.
Applications to be received by November 7, 2021
After the deadline for registration a committee will decide which applicants are accepted for the Masterclass. The selection will be based on the applicants’ letter of motivation (maximum 1 A4) that must be included in the registration. The motivation letter should declare the applicants’ research focus and what they want to gain from neutron and X-ray based methods. We aim at having a group of selected candidates representing a good distribution in food-related research topics and priority of acceptance will be given to applicants with relevant research questions.
The Masterclass is organized with funding support from Formas and LINXS and is free of charge. The number of participants is limited to 25 students.
A no show fee of 1500 SEK will be imposed.
The lectures will cover following areas and techniques:
Elemental mapping/obtaining chemical information in soft and biological tissues, (X- ray
absorption spectroscopy)4D imaging of food stuffs at high resolution (down to 30nm), (X-ray and neutron
tomography)Structural information on the atomic scale, (X-ray and neutron diffraction)
Structural information of disordered or partially ordered materials in the nanometer to
micrometer range, (small-angle X-ray and neutron scattering, SAXS and SANS)Structural information of surface properties of materials, (grazing incidence SAXS and
SANS and neutron reflectometry)Complimentary techniques including rheology and microscopy
The course will focus on methods, available instruments and experimental environments, data evaluation tools and modeling approaches as well as limitations of the techniques and some complementary techniques. The techniques will be explained through general and wide overviews, as well as specific and detailed examples. The selected applicants will be requested to prepare a one slide summary of their research project/interests at the start of the Masterclass as well as a literature scan on their project topic in preparation for beamtime application work. The applicants will also be requested to design a beamtime proposal based on their own research at the end of the course.
Due to the current Coronavirus pandemic and imposed travel restrictions some of the lectures might be conducted remotely.
List of lecturers:
Prof. Peter Fischer - ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Dr. Andrew Jackson - ESS, Sweden
Dr. Gregory Smith - ISIS, UK
Dr. Shun Yu - RISE, Sweden
Prof. Benjamin Boyd - Copenhagen University, Denmark
Prof. Trevor Forsyth - Lund University, Sweden
Dr. Rajmund Mokso - DTU, Copenhagen, Denmark
Assoc. Prof. Stephen Hall - LTH, Lund University, Sweden
Dr. Ann Terry - MAX IV Laboratory, Sweden
Prof. Niklas Lorén - RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Sweden
Dr. Kajsa Sigfridsson Clauss - MAX IV Laboratory, Swede
Dr. Emanuel Larsson - LTH, Lund University, Sweden
Prof. Tommy Nylander - Lund University, Sweden
