Cheese science course

Course in cheese science- February 2010

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Course in Cheese Science- Preliminary Announcement

A two-day graduate-level course on the science of cheese manufacture and ripening will be held in University College Cork on February 24 and 25, 2010. This course will be given by Prof PLH McSweeney and Dr TP Guinee (Teagasc, Moorepark, Fermoy, Co. Cork). This course will cover the science of the manufacture of rennet-coagulated, acid-curd and processed cheese and will concentrate on the biochemistry of cheese ripening (proteolysis, lipolysis, metabolism of lactose, lactate, citrate, fatty acids and amino acids) and rheological and functional properties of cheese.

This course would be particularly suitable for graduates from outside the food science area who now find themselves working with cheese and indeed for food science graduates who wish to increase their knowledge of current trends in cheese science.

For registration and further details, please contact:

Ms Mary McCarthy-Buckley

Food Industry Training

University College Cork, Ireland

Tel: 353 21 4903178

m.mccarthybuckley@ucc.ie

And for more information, please visit www.ucc.ie/fitu

Short course

The Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences is delighted to host a (free) two-day course:

An introduction to dynamic model building in food science, microbiology and biochemistry

May 11-12, 2009

Lecturer: Prof. E. Parente
Dipartimento di Biologia, Difesa e Biotecnologie Agro-Forestali – Università degli Studi della Basilicata, Potenza, Italy
(http://www2.unibas.it/parente/HomeEP.html

This course is intended for MSc/PhD students (and research staff) in Biology, Microbiology, Biochemistry and Chemistry and provides an introduction to dynamic model building in biology and biochemistry. Most of the examples focus on Microbiology, Fermentation and Biochemistry, but can be easily extended to other fields

At the end of the course students

will know the principles of the development of a dynamic model for a simple biological system
will be able to use software tools for dynamic model building
will be able to develop a simple dynamic model for a biological or chemical system.

Course content
Lectures: Introduction. Static, comparative static and dynamic models. Principles of modelling. Model components: stocks, constants, converters, flows, etc. Ordinary differential equations, difference equations, discrete elements; integration methods. Model validation. Examples of dynamic models in microbiology, bioihemistry, biology, ecology.
Workshop: An introduction to the use of Berkeley Madonna.

Suggested reading
Hannon B., Ruth M. 1997. Modeling dynamic biological systems. Springer
Macey R., Oster G., Zahnley. 2000. Berkeley Madonna User’s Guide. UC Berkeley.

Interested students and staff please contact Prof Paul McSweeney (p.mcsweeney@ucc.ie) for further details.