LABIP Awards at the LAB 14 Symposium

The LABIP awards are given within the following categories:

–                        The LABIP award for Mid-career Senior Researcher – accompanied with 2500 €

–                        Best Poster :   LABIP will give 3 prizes each of 500€

The LABIP 2023 Award for Mid-career Senior Researcher:

The prize gives for the persons work in relation to :

  • Relevance to industrial application.
  • Upfront and novel research findings.
  • High Scientific Quality
  • The person to be able to bridge the gap between Research and Industry
  • Have proven to be a project manager
  • Have a high personal integrity

The prestigious LABIP Mid-Career Senior Research Scientist was awarded to associate Professor Giovanna Felis from Verona University in Italy for her outstanding work in relation to the elaboration and introduction of the new taxonomy of the former lactobacillus genus. 

The LABIP 2023 Awards for best posters:

The Steering Group of LABIP selected 3 poster from the + 200 poster presented that live up to high scientific excellence and also have an industrial relevance within the areas of :

  • Understanding how to apply LAB strains in an novel way
  • How to get LABs to produce important compounds – like vitamins in situ
  • How to do metabolic adaptation of LABs

The 3 LABIP poster prizes were awarded to: 

Xiangang Li from Technical University of Dresden, Germany

For the poster: Lactiplantibacillus plantarum as an aroma-producer in sour beer fermentation

Yui Liu from Wageningen University, The Netherlands

For the poster: Good things come in small packages – delivery of vitamin K2 to human cells by extracellular vesicles from Lactococcus cremoris

Sybille Tachon, from University of Marseille, France

For the poster Metabolic adaptation of Lactic Acid Bacteria

From Left: Esben Laulund, LABIP. Xiangang Li, Yui Liu, Sybille Tachon, Giovanna Felis