PhD Thesis

On September 12, 2022, the defense of the doctoral thesis “New biorefinery strategies for the recovery of melon by-products” will take place from the auditorium of the Faculty of Sciences of Ourense, presented by Xiana Rico Castro. The thesis has been supervised by Dras. Remedios Yáñez Díaz and Beatriz Gullón Estévez.

Postdoctoral stay

Sandra Rivas Siota, one of our researchers, is on a 3- month postdoctoral stay in the Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale
at the Università di Pisa

Biohealthy environmental conferences

Our thanks to the speakers, the students and the centers we visited (CINBIO, CETMAR, EDAR Ourense), who made possible this University Extension Course “Xornadas medioambientais Biosaudables. Avaliando a saúde do planeta e os seus moradores”, organized from the Grupo Biomasa y Desarrollo Sostenible.


https://www.uvigo.gal/universidade/comunicacion/duvi/curso-afonda-componentes-biosaludables-medio-ambiente
https://www.farodevigo.es/ourense/2022/06/02/campus-oferta-ocho-cursos-extension-66805303.html

New INOU2022 project:

New INOU2022 project, entitled “Revitalization of the olive sector in the province of Ourense: use of olive pruning from native Galician varieties and valorization to obtain value-added compounds”. The main researchers are Sandra Rivas, from the EQ2 group, and Patricia Reboredo, from the Food and Health Omics group.

https://www.uvigo.gal/es/universidad/comunicacion/duvi/seis-proxectos-investigacion-interdisciplinar-acadan-axudas-inou-2022

https://www.uvigo.gal/universidade/comunicacion/duvi/proxecto-propon-aproveitar-podas-oliveiras-autoctonas-obter-compostos-valor-engadido