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Scholarship / Ph.D. student
Name of the Institute: Institute of Biotechnology of the Agricultural and Food Industry National Research Institute - Warsaw Job Title: Scholarship/Ph.D. student Requirements for candidates: Master's degree or its equivalent in such fields as food technology, biology,...
Quality Assurance and Safety of Crops & Foods has reached Impact Factor 4 (Q2)!
We are proud to announce that the journal Quality Assurance and Safety of Crops & Foods under the supervision of Amin Mousavi Khaneghah, D.Sc. as Editor in Chief and Krystian Marszałek, D.Sc. (as Associate Editor) from the Department of Fruit and Vegetable Product...
IS_MIRRI21 project closing meeting
The EU project 'Implementation and Sustainability of Microbial Resource Research Infrastructure for 21st Century IS_MIRRI21', which is being carried out also by the Institute of Agricultural and Food Biotechnology, has entered its final phase. This 3,5-year Horizon...
3rd General Assembly of NeoGIANT project consortium
3rd General Assembly of NeoGIANT project consortium - „The power of grape extracts: antimicrobial and antioxidant properties to prevent the use of antibiotics in farmed animals” On the 29-30th of May, in Porto, the consortium implementing the NeoGiANT project ("The...
National Agricultural Field Days 2023
On the 3-5th June, the National Agricultural Field Days 2023 were held in Sielinek in the Wielkopolskie Voivodeship. The event was organized by the Wielkopolska Agricultural Advisory Center in Poznań. The National Agricultural Field Days is a celebration of Polish...
47th Annual Conference on Yeasts
On May 16-19th Joanna-Bucka Kolendo, Ph.D. from the Department of Microbiology and Ms. Agata Wierzbińska, Coordinator for international cooperation, IBPRS-PIB participated in the 47th Annual Conference on Yeasts. The conference was organized by the Institute of...
CBE JU Info Days 2023
On the 20th April 2023, Joanna Bucka-Kolendo, Ph.D (Department of Microbiology), Łukasz Woźniak, Ph.D. (Department of Food Analysis) and Ms. Agata Wierzbińska (International Relations) participated in the CBE JU Info Days 2023. The event of the Circular Bio-based...
COST Action: CA21149 – ‘Reducing acrylamide exposure of consumers by a cereals supply-chain approach targeting asparagine’
On the 12th of May, Anna Szafrańska, Ph.D. attended the meeting of one of the working groups of the COST Action: CA21149 – 'Reducing acrylamide exposure of consumers by a cereals supply-chain approach targeting asparagine'. The members of the WG2: Agronomy and Plant...
29th International Scientific Conference Progress in Technology of Vegetable Fats
29th International Scientific Conference Progress in Technology of Vegetable Fats Rapeseed Oil – Polish Gold Falenty (near Warsaw), 15-16 June, 2023 Organized by Prof. Waclaw Dabrowski Institute of Agricultural and Food Biotechnology State Research Institute...
Prof. Waclaw Dabrowski Institute of Agricultural and Food Biotechnology – State Research Institute was founded in 1949 in Warsaw as the Main Institute of Agricultural and Food Industry. Having changed its name several times, last one given in 2012 before the incorporation into its structures of two other institutes with a long tradition: The Institute of Meat and Fat Industries and the Sugar Industry Institute, as well as several other research laboratories. Currently, the institute consists of 12 departments equipped with modern laboratories and using more than 600 accredited research methods.
The main task of the Institute is to conduct basic and applied research in the field of agri-food biotechnology, safe food production and storage, supporting agri-food industry and carrying out activities aimed at improving the quality of people’s life. The Institute cooperates with industrial partners from various areas of the agri-food sector and related sectors, including environmental protection, renewable energy and refrigeration.
The Institute employs over 200 employees, including three titular professors, nine associate professors and 33 PhD researchers.
Prof. Wacław Dąbrowski Institute of Agricultural and Food Biotechnology – State Research Institute conducts scientific, development and implementation work in the field of biotechnology and agri-food technology. These works, of final application type, encompass many disciplines, such as:
technical microbiology and food microbiology, cellular engineering, process engineering, chemistry and biochemistry, food technology, human nutrition and dietetics. The Institute’s fields of activity also include many sectors of the agri-food industry: yeast industry, spirit distillation, viticulture, vinegar production, beer brewing, fruit and vegetable processing, cereal processing and storage, potato and starch processing, bakery and confectionery, food concentrates, frozen and chilled food, sugar production, meat and fat processing, and the production of microbiological preparations (enzymatic, probiotic, starter cultures and others)
Research areas – key words:
food safety, food analysis, food quality, biodiversity, functional food, food concentrates, renewable energy sources, starch products, fermentation technology, meat and fat industry, fruits, vegetables, cereal processing, bakery, distillers, refrigeration, sugar industry, microbiology, dairy industry, collection of cultures.
