forthcoming discipline specific VLAG courses

The graduate school organises a large number of discipline- specific advanced courses. Topics covered by these courses are areas of particular interest to the research groups within VLAG. Some courses are given annually, but most courses are organised every two or three years. These courses are open to VLAG PhD students and external participants. All courses are given in English.

Information about the NuGO E-learning modules Molecular Nutrition can be found at http://www.vlaggraduateschool.nl/e-learning.htm

Information about the VLAG PhD week (introductory course) can be found at http://www.vlaggraduateschool.nl/phd-week/.

For the courses organised by the School for Nutrition, Toxicology and Metabolism (NUTRIM) please visit the NUTRIM website.

Food fermentation (4th edition)
http://www.vlaggraduateschool.nl/courses/foodferm.htm
24 - 27 January 2012, Wageningen
Organised in cooperation with: Laboratory of Food Microbiology (WU)
Contact Person: Yvonne Smolders (Yvonne.Smolders@wur.nl)

Food Hydrocolloids: Fundamentals and Applications (3rd edition)
Previously scheduled for 30 January - 2 February 2012.
Now incorporated in Rheology and structure of food, scheduled for 21 - 25 May 2012, see below.

Master class: Analysis using R (1st edition)
http://www.vlaggraduateschool.nl/courses/analysis-r.htm
8 - 9 February 2012, Wageningen
Organised in cooperation with: Division of Human Nutrition (WU)
Contact Persons: Olga Souverein (Olga.Souverein@wur.nl) for employees of the Division of Human Nutrition and Fré Pepping (Fre.Pepping@wur.nl) for others interested in this master class.

Applied biocatalysis (1st edition)
http://www.rug.nl/fmns-research/gbb/education/masterclasses/appliedbiocatalysis
26 - 28 March 2012, Groningen
Organised by: Graduate Schools GBB (Groningen) and VLAG in cooperation with various research groups at RUG and WU (Organic Chemistry)
Contact Persons: Maurice Franssen (Maurice.Franssen@wur.nl) for the scientific part and Fré Pepping (Fre.Pepping@wur.nl) for logistics for VLAG PhD students.

Biorefinery for Biomolecules (1st edition)
http://www.vlaggraduateschool.nl/courses/biorefinery.htm
16 - 17 April 2012, Wageningen
Organised in cooperation with: Laboratory of Biochemistry (WU) and Bioprocess Engineering (WU)
Contact Person: Ingeborg van Leeuwen-Bol (Ingeborg.vanLeeuwen-Bol@wur.nl)

Food Structure and Rheology
http://www.vlaggraduateschool.nl/courses/rheo-struc.htm
21 - 24 May 2012, Wageningen
Organised in cooperation with: Laboratory of Physical Chemistry & Colloid Sciences (WU), Food Process Engineering (WU) and University Ghent
Contact Person: Yvonne Smolders (Yvonne.Smolders@wur.nl)

Summer Course Glycosciences (12th edition)
http://www.vlaggraduateschool.nl/glycosciences/
3 - 7 June 2012, Groningen
Organised in cooperation with: Graduate School GBB (Groningen)
Contact Person: Chantal Doeswijk (Chantal.Doeswijk@wur.nl)

Nordic Graduate School Course on Metabolomics (1st edition)
Further details will follow, this PhD course is linked to NuGOweek (28 - 31 August, Helsinki)
20 - 24 August 2012, Kuopio, Finland
Organised by: the SYSDIET network with support of the Graduate School VLAG and NuGO
Contact Person: Ingeborg van Leeuwen-Bol (Ingeborg.vanLeeuwen-Bol@wur.nl)

Exposure Assessment in Nutrition Research (2nd edition)
More information about the 2010 edition of this course: http://www.vlaggraduateschool.nl/courses/expo-nut.htm
27 - 30 August 2012, Wageningen
Organised in cooperation with: Division of Human Nutrition (WU)
Contact Person: Eva Oudshoorn (Eva.Oudshoorn@wur.nl)

Reaction kinetics in food science (7th edition)
More information about the 2009 edition of this course: http://www.vlaggraduateschool.nl/courses/reaction-kin.htm
15 - 19 October 2012, Wageningen
Organised in cooperation with: Product Design and Quality Management (WU)
Contact Persons: Yvonne Smolders (Yvonne.Smolders@wur.nl) and Tiny van Boekel (Tiny.vanBoekel@wur.nl)

Master class Public health interventions in real-life settings: the AGORA experience (2nd edition)
More information about the 2010 edition of this course: http://www.vlaggraduateschool.nl/courses/agora-10.htm
29 - 31 October 2012, Wageningen
Organised in cooperation with: Wageningen School of Social Sciences (WASS) and the AGORA Academic Collaborative Centre
Contact Person: Ingeborg van Leeuwen-Bol (Ingeborg.vanLeeuwen-Bol@wur.nl)

Management of Microbiological Hazards in Foods (14th edition)
More information about the 2011 edition of this course: http://www.vlaggraduateschool.nl/courses/micro-hazards.htm
5 - 9 November 2012, Wageningen
Organised in cooperation with: European Chair in Food Safety Microbiology
Contact Person: Chantal Doeswijk (Chantal.Doeswijk@wur.nl)

Regulation of Food Intake and its Implications for Nutrition and Obesity (6th edition)
More information about the 2008 edition of this course: http://www.vlaggraduateschool.nl/courses/regulation-food.pdf
The 2012 edition of this course includes the final symposium about the STW-funded project 'satiety and satisfaction'.
20 - 22 November 2012, Wageningen
Organised in cooperation with: Division of Human Nutrition (WU)
Contact Person: Ingeborg van Leeuwen-Bol (Ingeborg.vanLeeuwen-Bol@wur.nl)

Advanced food analysis (4th edition)
More information about the 2010 edition of this course: http://www.vlaggraduateschool.nl/courses/food-analys.htm
28 January - 1 February 2013, Wageningen
Organised in cooperation with: Food Chemistry (WU), Organic Chemistry (WU) and the FP7 EC project CONffIDENCE
Contact Person: Yvonne Smolders (Yvonne.Smolders@wur.nl)