AOCS is accepting submissions to the 2025 competition! You can see winners from the 2024 competition below.
Any student who submits a poster abstract accepted to the program is eligible to participate in-person in Portland.
All posters are also eligible for an "audience favorite" in each category, which is selected by meeting attendees.
Protein and Co-Products Division Graduate Student Oral Competition
The Protein and Co-Products Division Graduate Student Oral Competition provides full-time students enrolled in a masters or doctoral degree program an opportunity to highlight their work relevant to protein and co-products, demonstrate their ability in scientific presentations, and receive important feedback from industry professionals.
The first-place winner receives a $200 cash prize and a recognition certificate.
The second-place winner receives a $100 cash prize and a recognition certificate.
Session moderators: To be announced
Judging panel: To be announced
First Place: Donatella Ferrara
"One-step microwave-assisted extraction and derivatization for the evaluation of fatty acid methyl esters composition in marine organisms and their nutritional value"
Second Place: Christianne Yapor
"Inhibition of advanced glycation end-products by chlorogenic and caffeic acids and their detection and quantification by fluorescence and LC-MS"
Audience Choice: Wellington Oliveira
"Unraveling the impacts of germination on the volatile and fatty acid profile of intermediate wheatgrass (Thinopyrum intermedium) seeds"
First Place: Bhawana Khadka
"Thin Stillage and Soybean Hulls Valorization for Their Expanded Applications"
Second Place: Ha-Eun Ji
"Ascorbyl-6-O-oleate obtained from lipase-catalyzed synthesis through esterification and transesterification reaction"
Audience Choice: Nadeem Akhtar
"Enhanced production of extracellular protease from Bacillus subtilis 9 in shake-flask fermentation"
Edible Applications Technology Division
First Place: Rasmus Mikkelson
"Screening of emulsifying peptides derived from brewers' spent grain"
Second Place: Ivana Penagos
"Modelling crystalline nanoplatelets in triglyceride systems: A new shape-dependent USAXS model"
Audience Choice: Arpita Chakraborty
"Investigating Rheological Method (LAOS) Responsiveness in Intricate Food Systems"
Health & Nutrition Division
First Place: Blair MacLeod
"Menhaden oil but not flaxseed oil reduces hepatic lipogenic gene expression independent of delta-6 desaturase activity"
Second Place: Zihan Wang
"Bioavailability and metabolism of bioactive peptide IRW with angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) up-regulatory activity in spontaneously hypertensive rats"
Audience Choice: Zihan Wang
"Bioavailability and metabolism of bioactive peptide IRW with angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) up-regulatory activity in spontaneously hypertensive rats"
Industrial Oil Products Division
First Place: Jeanne Gallard
"Synthesis of biosourced amphiphilic phytosterols"
Second Place: Yuya Nakagaki
"Clarification of controlling factors for efficient catalyst-free selective oxidation of glycerol using nonthermal atmospheric pressure plasma"
Audience Choice: Jeanne Gallard
"Synthesis of biosourced amphiphilic phytosterols"
Lipid Oxidation & Quality Division
First Place: Yuta Yoshida
"Highly accurate prediction of edible oil oxidative stability by a multivariate regression model combining open ingredient data and chemiluminescence measurement"
Second Place: Purlen Sezer Okur
"Developing an innovative green approach to form high-stability powder fish oil formulation using supercritical carbon dioxide"
Audience Choice: Harjot Kaur
"Chemical Composition and Foaming Properties of Freeze Dried Aquafaba"
Processing Division
First Place: Arda Tuhanioglu
"Selective extraction of waxes from bioethanol production side-stream via supercritical carbon dioxide: Thermal characterization and modeling"
Second Place: Youwei Wang
"Impact of fruit rot level on extra virgin cold-pressed avocado oil quality"
Audience Choice: Arda Tuhanioglu
"Selective extraction of waxes from bioethanol production side-stream via supercritical carbon dioxide: Thermal characterization and modeling"
Protein and Co-Products Division
First Place: Emerson Nolasco
"Elucidating a novel hypertension treatment approach through egg white hydrolysate and gut microbiome synergism in-vitro"
Second Place: Yifu Chu
"Tribo-Rheological Analysis of Size-Controllable and pH-Sensitive Protein Microgels: Delving into the Soft Ball-Bearing Mechanism of Efficient Aqueous Lubrication Effect"
Audience Choice: Karandeep Singh Sodhi
"Optimizing sub-critical water extraction of canola proteins for novel plant-based emulsifier application"
Surfactants & Detergents Division
First Place: Daisuke Ono
"Solution Behavior of Amide Types of Chemocleavable Nonionic Surfactants Bearing a 1,3-Dioxolane Ring"
Second Place:Shweta Mistry
"Interactions between glycerol monooleate and saturated triacylglycerols interactions at the oil-water interface"
Audience Choice: Alyssa Kuang
"Synthesis and Performance of 100% Biobased Reversable Surfactants"
Sustainable Protein Forum
First Place: Julie Frost Dahl
"Feature importance of rheological data in predicting structural variations of plant-based biopolymer mixes"
"Second Place: Ugo Berthelot
Impact of the residual lipids of yellow mealworm protein isolate on the protein structure and techno-functionalities"
"Audience Choice: Ines Othmeni
Impact of pH on the structure and foaming properties of pea protein isolate: Structure – function relationship"