Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the two winners of the Fermentation 2021 Travel Awards for Junior Investigators, who will be awarded 600 CHF each towards their travel expenses to attend an international conference in 2021.

The 2021 Fermentation Travel Awards have been granted to:

Dr. Michela Verni, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in University of Bari, Bari, Italy. Her research focuses on food microbiology and achieves important resultsinthefieldoffermentationbyselectedlacticacidbacteriaofcerealsand different alternative vegetable matrices, by-products and surplus of the agri- food industry. In addition, her research concerned sourdough microbiology, characterization, and selection of microbial starters for nutritional, functional, and technological improvement of fermented foods.

Mr. Philipp Demling, a Ph.D. student in RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany. His research focuses on the development of a fermentation strategy for the biochemical production of biosurfactants, especially rhamnolipids. Another focus of his study is the investigation of the ability of the obligate aerobic P. putida KT2440 to cope with fluctuating dissolved oxygen tensions.

We would like to express our gratitude to all the participants of the Fermentation 2021 Travel Awards and the Award Committee Members for their evaluation of all the excellent nominations.

Fermentation Editorial Office

We are pleased to announce the two winners of the 2019 Fermentation Travel Awards for Junior Investigators, who will be supported with 500 CHF each towards their travel expenses to attend an international conference of their choice in 2019.

The 2019 Fermentation Travel Awards have been granted to:

Dr. Heinrich Kroukamp, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Macquarie University, North Ryde, Australia. His research focuses on the tailoring of yeast protein secretion to allow for increased production of industrially valuable proteins and expanding the substrate range of yeast for biofuel production. 

Ms. Joana Resende Ortigueira, a PhD student in Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (FCUL) and the National Laboratory for Energy and Geology (LNEG), Lisbon, Portugal. Her research focuses on the evaluation of food waste and its valorization through dark fermentation systems, production of bio-hydrogen and volatile fatty acids (VFAs) from food waste, and scale-up and development of continuous production systems. 

We would like to thank all the Scientific Committee members for their evaluations of the candidates, as well as all those who participated in the travel award competition.

We are pleased to announce the two winners of the 2017 Fermentation Travel Awards for Junior Investigators, who will receive 600 CHF each towards their travel expenses to attend an international conference in 2017.

The Awards have been granted to:

Dr. Matthew L. Bochman, an Assistant Professor at the Indiana University, IN, USA. His research focuses on the functions of RecQ and Pif1 family helicases to maintain genome integrity. He also works on yeasts and fermentation in connection with the craft beer industry.

Dr. Francesca Berini, a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Insubria, Italy. Her research focuses on the production of recombinant proteins by fermentation, using Escherichia coli and streptomycetes and characterization of hydrolytic enzymes from a genomic and metagenomic origin with potential application for industrial and environmental purposes, as well as improvement of antibiotic production in rare actinomycetes.

We would like to congratulate them on their excellent work and would further like to thank all applicants for their interesting and high quality contributions. We also wish to thank the Scientific Committee members for their evaluation of the candidates.