News & Lab Activities
2026 activities and achievements
- Tyler Jarrard, PhD student, presented at Build Dairy meeting, Boise State University, Boise, Idaho
- Zhoutai Teng, PhD student, presented at Alternative Protein Symposium: Bridging Science and Society, Bezos Center for sustainable protein
- Sophie Liang, PhD student, presented at the FBNS department Industry Partners Advisory Council Meeting
- Dr. Zheng presented an invited seminar at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
- Tyler Jarrard, PhD student, and Dr. Zheng presented at Global Ingredient Summit, Reno, Nevada
- Tyler Jarrard won the 1st place at student research competition. Congratulations, Tyler! šĀ
- FBNS department retreat: visited the NC Food Innovation Lab, a world-class pilot facility for food processing
- Warmest congratulations to Dr. Hanyu Shi (Class of 2026) on successfully defending and earning her doctoral degree. Congratulations, Dr. Shi! šĀ
2025 activities and achievements
Picture: 2025 Zheng lab annual photo
Zheng lab students and researchers in 2025
- Journal cover: Zhoutai Teng, PhD student, co-first-author, CongratulationsĀ Zhoutai! š
https://doi.org/10.1021/acsfoodscitech.5c00909
- Graduation: Warmest congratulations to Dr. Yijing Shao (Class of 2025) and Dr. Usman Amin (Class of 2025) on successfully earning their doctoral degrees.
Congratulations, Dr. Shao and Dr. Amin! šĀ
- A seasonal gathering to honor our 2025 achievements
- Dr. Zheng served as an external examiner for a doctoral dissertation defense at University College Dublin, Ireland
- Tyler Jarrard, PhD student, presented at the FBNS department Industry Partners Advisory Council Meeting
- The lab attended 2025 Southeast Dairy Foods Research Center Meeting, Raleigh, NC
- PhD student and Postdoc researchers at Zheng lab presented our recent works at ACS Fall meeting, Washington, DC
- Kailee Adomaites, summer intern, presented at Bezos Center student research symposium
- PhD students at Zheng lab presented our recent works at ADSA annual meeting, Louisville, Kentucky
- PhD students at Zheng lab won prizes at graduate research competitions at ADSA annual meeting, Louisville, KentuckyĀ
https://www.adsa.org/Membership/Graduate-Student-Division/GSD-Awards
Congratulations! šĀ
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- 2025, Yufeng Lin won 2nd place at Graduate Student Research Competition (oral), 2025 American Dairy Science AssociationĀ® Annual Meeting, Louisville, Kentucky. āĪ²-Lactoglobulin-enriched whey protein aggregates for high-acid ready-to-drink beverage applicationā
- 2025, Yijing Shao, won 1st place at graduate research (poster) competition at Dairy Foods Division, 2025 American Dairy Science AssociationĀ® Annual Meeting, Louisville, Kentucky. āInvestigation of mechanical properties of whey protein stabilized oil-water interfaces during in vitro digestionā
- 2025, Tyler Jarrard, won 2nd place at graduate research (poster) competition at Dairy Foods Division, 2025 American Dairy Science AssociationĀ® Annual Meeting, Louisville, Kentucky. āCharacterization of the plasmin system from skim milk to milk protein concentrate.ā
- 2025, Hanyu Shi, won 3rd place at graduate research (poster) competition at Dairy Foods Division, 2025 American Dairy Science AssociationĀ® Annual Meeting, Louisville, Kentucky. āManufacturing mesoscale whey protein particles via a scalable antisolvent precipitation-based method.ā
- Yijing Shao, PhD student, presented at Build Dairy meeting
- Dr. Zheng presentedĀ at The 9th International Symposium on Dairy Cow Nutrition and Milk Quality, Beijing, China. the symposium was organized by the Institute of Animal Science (IAS) of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), the American Dairy Science Association (ADSA), and the New Zealand Ministry for Primary Industries.
2024 activities and achievements
- 2024, Yijing Shao, won 2nd place, Dairy Foods Division Graduate Student Oral Competition, 2024 IFT FIRST Annual Event & Expo. Title: Impact of Structural Features of Whey Protein Assemblies on Oil-Water Interfacial Behaviors: Adsorption Dynamics and Dilatational Rheology (7/15/2024, Chicago, IL)
- 2024, Yijing Shao won 2nd place at Graduate Student Research Competition (oral), 2024 American Dairy Science AssociationĀ® Annual Meeting, West Palm Beach, FL (6/16-19, 2024). title: Predicting phase stability of UHT reconstituted skim milk using vibrational spectroscopy and physicochemical properties coupled with partial least squares method.
- 2024, Usman Amin won 3rd place at Student Research Competition (poster), ADPI Global Ingredients Summit, American Dairy Products Institute (Reno, NV, 3/11-13, 2024). Title: Manufacturing whey protein aggregates: impact of processing variables on the particle size and phase stability.
- 2024-2025, Evelyn Lin, GSD (graduate student division) President, American Dairy Science Association
Picture: attended 2024 ADSA annual meeting, West Palm Beach, Florida
Picture: Yijing Shao won 2nd place, Dairy Foods Division Graduate Student Oral Competition, 2024 IFT FIRST Annual Event & Expo, Chicago, Illinois
Picture: Usman Amin won 3nd place, Graduate Student Research Competition (poster), ADPI Global Ingredients Summit, at Reno, Nevada
Picture: Zheng lab attended 2024 IFT FIRST Annual Event & Expo, Chicago, Illinois
2022 students’ achievementsĀ
- 2022, Evelyn Lin (MS), 1st place, Graduate Student Competition: ADSA Dairy Foods Oral, 2022 American Dairy Science AssociationĀ® Annual Meeting.
- 2022, Yijing Shao (PhD), 2nd place, Division Graduate Student Competition, Dairy Foods Division, 2022 IFT FIRST Annual Event & Expo.
- 2022, Evelyn Lin (MS), 2nd place, Division Graduate Student Competition, Food Chemistry Division, 2022 IFT FIRST Annual Event & Expo
- 2022, Usman Amin (PhD), Finalist, Graduate Student Competition: ADSA Dairy Foods Oral, 2022 American Dairy Science AssociationĀ® Annual Meeting.
- 2022, Yijing Shao (PhD), Finalist, Graduate Student Competition: ADSA Dairy Foods Oral, 2022 American Dairy Science AssociationĀ® Annual Meeting.
Picture: Evelyn Lin won the 1st place in Graduate Student Competition at 2022 American Dairy Science AssociationĀ® Annual Meeting (ADSA Dairy Foods Oral)
2022 Nov.
- Zheng lab annual team activity: BBQ by the Jordan Lake, Raleigh, NC
- Dr. Zheng presented a guest lecture: “Proteins & Protein Functionality” upon invitation from Laboratory of Food Oral Processing at Zhejiang Gongshang University (Dr. Jiangshe Chen and Dr. Xinmiao Wang)
2022 Sept.
Dr. Zheng presented the lab research efforts on whey proteins as an invited speaker at 2022 International Whey Conference (IWC) in Chicago, Il
2022 August
Zheng lab organized “Workshop: Basics of Dairy Foods” for dairy business stakeholders from North Carolina and Tennessee based on sponsorship from North Carolina Dairy Producers Association
2022 July
Summer interns presented posters at NC State
Commissioning of the Alpha Laval Tangential Flow (Membrane) Filtration system at Zheng lab
2022 June
Zheng lab attended
- ADSA 2022 annual meeting in Kansas City, Missouri
- Build Dairy Annual meeting in Provo, Utah
May 2nd 2022
The lab hosted 18th Annual Applied Rheology Seminar at NC State, offered by Anton Paar
April 6th 2022
Dr. Zheng was invited to be one of the three judges at Protein and Co-Products Graduate Student Oral Competition for 2022 AOCS Annual Meeting & Expo
https://annualmeeting.aocs.org/Ā
2021 Nov.
Zheng Lab Hiking at William B. Umstead State Park, Raleigh, NC
July 30th 2021
February -5-2021
Dr. Zheng presented a guest lecture on the topic of Food Structure Design to students at University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
February-2-2021
Dr. Avinash Patel from University of Maine joined Zheng Lab as postdoc researcher.
Welcome him!
January-22-2021
Dr. Zheng presented a virtual guest lecture on the topic of Food Rheology to students at Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.
June 2019
Dr. Zheng was elected as “Member-at-Large” for Dairy Foods Division Council, American Dairy Science Association (see: https://www.adsa.org/Portals/0/SiteContent/Docs/About/2019_-_2020_ADSA_Committees.pdf?v20200122-2)