LIMB Attends the 48th KMB Annual Meeting & International Symposium

        Professor Dae-Kyung Kang with LIMB students IC Hwang (far left), R Vasquez (middle right), and JM Yoo (far right) at the 48th KMB Symposium.

Busan, South Korea. Prof Dae-Kyung Kang with LIMB members attended the recently concluded 48th KMB Annual Meeting & International Symposium, held at BEXCO, Busan, South Korea last June 23-25, 2021. The Korean Society for Microbiology and Biotechnology (KMB) is the flagship organization for microbiology and allied fields in South Korea. 

The symposium was attended by hundreds of participants all over Korea. Local and international experts in food science, microbiology, and biotechnology were invited to share their knowledge in their respective fields. The LIMB team attended the plenary lectures, as well as special sessions of the symposium.

                 LIMB students (from left to right) JM Yoo, R Vasquez, and JM Yoo during the poster session of the 48th KMB Symposium.

During the symposium, the LIMB team exhibited their poster, entitled "Neoagarooligosaccharides Alleviate Body Weight Gain and Modulate Gut Microbiota in Obese Rats" which garnered much attention during the poster sessions. This poster is just one of the researches conducted in LIMB spearheaded by Prof. Kang, which aims to expand our knowledge in functional food science. 

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