We wish our new Post Doc Laura Riggi welcome! Laura has a background in research on insect biodiversity in production landscapes and will start to work with us in the beginning of September. She will work with questions on how we can enhance our landscapes to increase biodiversity and at the same time grow feed for food-insects. Interesting studies ahead!
New Post Doc position open!
Do you have the right qualifications and are interested in research within this field? Have a read about the 2-year Post Doc position open in our group.
Workshop on insects as food & feed
Next week 6 February we are organising together with the research platform Future Food a workshop on insects as food and feed. The focus of the workshop is to bring together researchers from different disciplines within the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and stakeholders to exchange knowledge and discuss collaborations and the future development of the area. We look forward to the day that is likely to be very interesting and move the field a little bit forward!
Our new study – pigs grow well on crickets as feed!
Pigs are often used as a model for humans in different studies and we have looked how piglets grew on crickets as feed. The study has just come out and have been picked up by several major newspapers! Here you can find it: Study on A Jansson RG
Study on Å Berggren RG
Conference in Fiji
We are participating in the Island Arks conference in Nadi, Fiji. Lots of researchers and NGOs here from different countries around the world presenting their work, as did we!
Lots of interest at Open day at campus
We met lots of people at the university’s open campus day last Saturday. Many came to our talk and visited our little set-up where we talked about our research, showed insects, photos and films. Many in the general public are super interested in the subject and we tried to answer as many questions as we could!
Study made by highschool students on attitude of insect eating
Two students from Högbergsskolan in Sweden (highschool) have done their final project work focused on their fellow students’ attitudes on eating insects. The authors were really interested in the subject and both we and them, and later the involved students and teachers had lots of engaging discussions. You can read the study below (in Swedish) “Insekter som proteinkälla. Undersökning av ungdomars åsikt“ (“Insects as a protein source. Study on the opinion of youth”).
Presenting research at the University’s Open day
If you are in Uppsala, Sweden and are interested in some of the work we do, come by at the University’s Open day 30th of September! We’ll be there with some insects, films and happy to talk and answer questions.
Open day info on FB
Our posters from the conference
These are the two posters we presented at the conference. The top one the is the one that Phalla got Best poster of the conference award for. The second one is showing some of the master’s work that our Veterinarian student Gabriella has done on feed and amino acid content of crickets:
Amino acid contents of field crickets fed chicken feed, cassava tops and weed
Successful days presenting our work at the EAAP conference
We have just returned home after participating at the Annual Meeting of the European Federation of Animal Science (EAAP) that was in Tallinn this year. For the first time the conference had research on insects as food and feed, as a part of the conference. One whole day’s parallel session was devoted to this https://eaap2017.org/programme/#08-31. We had both talks and posters and Phalla (PhD-student) got awarded the best poster of the whole conference – big congratulations to Phalla! A good achievement as there were plenty of posters on display – over 300.