This is Javier Caballero, a Postdoctoral Researcher funded by the MSCA CAROLINE Programme. During the two years of my fellowship I will try to keep this blog updated and let you know everything about my research project as well as some hints about science, veterinary medicine and farming. Stay tuned!
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The quality of milk intended for cheesemaking purposes is based on its aptitude to produce a good cheese and satisfactory yields in normal conditions. This depends mostly on chemical composition (especially casein content), microbial load, the nature of bacterial microflora, the lactic bacteria development capability, and the behavior of milk against rennet. Milk may react […]
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Agri Aware is the Irish agri-food educational body, a Charitable Trust, funded by the Irish farming and agri-food industry. To convey the importance of the agri-food industry amongst the general public, Agri Aware delivers high impact educational and public awareness initiatives and projects for students and the general public. Every year, among other activities, Agri Aware […]
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PubhD Ireland is a monthly, free event that brings together PhD students from universities & colleges from all over Ireland across a range of disciplines to share their work in ten-minute presentations, with an additional 20 minutes for friendly questions and answers. The 40th Dublin event took place on Wednesday 6th March in the J.T.Pim’s […]
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On my way back to Dublin after having taken a couple of days off back home in Spain, I had the chance to catch up with some readings in my Kindle. “A Scientist in Spain: Guide for Survival” is a humorous portrait of the adversities that a scholar has to face in order to reach a […]
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Today I participated with a group of researchers and staff members from Teagasc in UCD Agriculture, Food Science and Human Nutrition Careers Day. The event took place all morning in the Astra Hall (in the Student Centre of University College Dublin), and final year students had the chance to meet with companies and potential employers in an […]
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Yesterday I had the chance to participate in Teagasc events for the Festival of Farming and Food, in the frame of SFI Science Week 2018. On the 13th and 14th of November, Teagasc Grange hosted primary school students from the locality as well as from the Trinity Access Programme and secondary school students from local schools. The […]
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So farm visits have finally kicked off! Although cows are currently in late lactation we hopefully will have enough time to sample about half of the target farms before they house the animals in late November. Eoin Ryan (UCD) has been joining me in the farm visits, what’s been a massive help. He has great experience as […]
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In the last couple of weeks we have received from Glanbia a list of their suppliers that includes farms with an alleged problem of mastitis caused by Staphylococcus aureus. In order to set a criteria to include farms we have followed the directions described in Boss et al. (2016). This paper presents a wide genomic […]
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Glanbia Ireland is a 60:40 joint venture between Glanbia Co-op and Glanbia plc. Glanbia is Ireland’s #1 dairy company, annually processing over 2 billion litres of milk into a range of ingredients for export to more than 60 countries. Parent company, Glanbia plc, is a global nutrition group, grounded in nature and science. Glanbia plc […]
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Probably the most ambitious activity I chose to include in my fellowship Training & Development Plan was to enrol in an 18 month postgraduate programme. This is definitely challenging, as most of the lectures and assignments will have to be attended in my free time. However, I did feel this would help me develop skills on […]
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