Read the report: Food Zone Report – November 2019 [PDF]

The Food Zone was a themed zone supported by Science Foundation Ireland. It featured six scientists:

• Min Yap is researching how bacteria grows and interacts in the dairy production environment.
• Marcello Valente is a PhD student developing a sensor to detect dangerous mutation in living organisms.
• Katie Starsmore, the zone winner, is a technician researching how much methane gas cows burp, and how we can reduce this.
• Dheeraj Rathore is working on improving crops to suit changing climates and fight disease.
• Israel Ikoyi looks at microbes in the soil to understand how they can help plants grow better, and how farmers can create the conditions for them to do so.
• Aoife McHugh is looking at microbes that can survive dairy processing, from milk collected on the farm through processing to dairy powder.