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The
2007 Belfort Lecture was given by Dr.
Marta Izydorczyk Friday,
May 11, 2007 at the WCCR Belfort Lecture and Technical Conference held
at
Purdue
University
. The title of her
presentation was
"Cereal Cell-wall
Polysaccharides: Molecular Structures, Physicochemical
Characteristics, and Functional Properties".
Dr. Marta S. Izydorczyk is
currently a research scientist and program manager of Basic Barley
Research at the Grain Research Laboratory, Canadian Grain
Commission, and an adjunct professor at the Department of Food
Science, University of Manitoba. She has authored and co-authored
numerous research papers, book chapters, and conference
contributions in the area of structure-function relationships of
food carbohydrates. She is an active member of the America
Association of Cereal Chemists International (AACCI), a member of
the AACCI Scientific Advisory Panel, and a member of the organizing
committees of the World Grains Summit: Foods and Beverages (2006),
Plant Polysaccharide Workshop (2006), and Canadian Barley Symposium
(2007). She sits on the editorial Board of the journal Cereal
Chemistry. Her area of expertise is in the molecular structure and
physicochemical properties of non-starch polysaccharides. Her
research program focuses on identifying, understanding, and gaining
control over mechanisms responsible for technological performance
and physiological functionality of carbohydrate polymers from barley
and other economically important Prairie grains in complex
multi-variant food systems. |
