24 Aug | SEC & NUS Researchers will present on the NRF-funded project 'Using black soldier flies in food waste management and sustainable food production in urban systems'.
Seminar details:
Date: Wednesday, 24 August, 2022
Time: 10.30-11.30 am
Agenda: 40 min talks followed by 20 min Q&A
Venue: Value Lab Asia, Singapore-ETH Centre, #06-01, CREATE Tower, 1 CREATE Way, Singapore, Singapore 138602
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Even though they can be a nuisance, flies are natures waste recyclers. SEC researchers study how this ability can be used for food waste management and to support Singapore's aspiration to meet 30% of its nutritional requirements domestically by 2030. The nutrient rich larval biomass and the compost-like excretions from food waste bioconversion with fly larvae are ideal for feed and fertilizer. These are important raw materials for local food production in Singapore. Why are larvae such an ideal feed? Are fly larvae a possible sustainable solution for Singapore? And how can this solution be integrated into urban systems with land limitations?
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Agenda:
- Arrival of participants
- An introduction to insects as waste managers and food and feed
- Using black soldier flies in food waste management and sustainable food production in Singapore
- Working towards automated food waste bioconversion
- Developing design, network and operational solutions for black soldier fly integration
- Q&A and discussion
Speakers:
external pageDr. Nalini Puniamoorthy is an evolutionary biologist, assistant professor and leads the external pageReproductive Evolution Lab at NUS. She is PI of the NRF-funded project “Using black soldier flies in food waste management and sustainable food production in urban systems”.
Dr. Moritz Gold is a post-doctoral researcher in the Sustainable Food Processing Lab of Dr. Alexander Mathys at ETH Zurich and has been studying insect-based bioconversion to produce more sustainable feeds since 2017.
Adrian Fuhrmann is a doctoral researcher at SEC and ETH Zurich under Prof. Mathys and Prof. Puniamoorthy. His research works towards using heterogeneous food waste in an urban system like Singapore.
Prof. Stephen Cairns and Niraly Mangal are architects and urban designers studying the integration of black soldier fly rearing into the urban landscape at the SEC's FCL Global.