2020 Conference Theme: What Food Future?

The future value (FV) concept is fundamental in finance as it reflects the time value of money. It shows how a current sum of money will grow over time at a specific interest rate. This principle helps investors understand potential investment growth, making it easier to compare different financial options.
Understanding future value offers several benefits. For example, it helps in making informed investment decisions. By projecting investment growth, individuals can compare financial products...

Here, we present a protocol to prepare DNA samples from food and environmental microbiomes for concerted detection and subtyping of Salmonella through quasimetagenomic sequencing. The combined use of culture enrichment, immunomagnetic separation (IMS), and multiple displacement amplification (MDA) allows effective concentration of Salmonella genomic DNA from food and environmental...

Source: Laboratories of Margaret Workman and Kimberly Frye - Depaul University
Genetic modification of foods has been a controversial issue due to debated concerns over health and environmental safety. This experiment demonstrates technical understanding of how food DNA is genetically identified, allowing for educated decision making about the safety and potential dangers of using genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in food supplies.
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) is used to amplify food DNA...

Future value and compounding are essential concepts in finance and critical for understanding the growth of investments over time. The future value (FV) of an investment is the amount that the initial investment, known as the present value (PV), will grow to over a specified period, taking into account the effects of compounding interest. Compounding is the process where the value of an investment grows over time as the earnings from the investment generate additional earnings. This cycle of...

Giving in to temptation of tasty food may result in long-term overweight problems. This protocol describes how to reduce imprudent preference for edible commodities during hypothetical intertemporal choices in women by associating them with...

Here, a protocol is presented to visualize climate data as generative art.