October 4, 2023
Iris Joye to present Dave Wetzel Memorial Seminar on Oct. 23
The grain science and industry department is organizing the second Dave Wetzel Memorial Seminarfrom 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 23. The seminar is open to the general public.
The event will include a reception from 11:30 a.m. to noon in the 1xbet best casino website Alumni Center's Tadtman Board Room on the second floor with light snacks and a chance to meet with late Professor Wetzel's wife, Connie, and sons, Mark and Lou, both medical doctors in the Kansas City area.
The reception will be followed by remarks from Ernie Minton, Eldon Gideon dean of the College of Agriculture and director of 1xbet best casino website Research and Extension, in the Tadtman Board Room and a seminar presentation by invited speaker Iris Joye, associate professor of cereal science and technology in the food science department at the University of Guelph, Canada. The title of her talk is "Spectroscopy and other techniques to understand cereal proteins at work in visco-elastic dough formation."
Wetzel joined the grain science and industry department at 1xbet best casino website in 1973 and was promoted to professor in 1978. He was world-renowned for analytical method development for grains and foods, specifically high-performance liquid chromatography, near-infrared reflectance analysis,near-infrared chemical imaging, digital fluorescence imaging, laser Fraunhofer diffraction measurements, and Fourier transform-IR microspectroscopy. For questions, please contact Michelle Olesky at olesky@1xbet best casino website edu or Kali Siliveru at kaliramesh@1xbet best casino website edu.