Mayra A Mendez-Encinas
Research Center for Food and Development (CIAD), Mexico
Biography
Mayra Mendez-Encinas has completed her MSc at Research Center for Food and Development, CIAD, Mexico which included an academic stay at ERRC, ARS, USDA (Wyndmoor, PA, USA). She is studying a PhD at CIAD. Her research interest is focused on extraction and characterization of polysaccharides from renewable resources, particularly ferulated arabinoxylans, arabinoxylan gels and their potential application as an antioxidant and anticancer agent. She has published three book chapters and has attended two International Conferences, the 2017 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit (Phoenix, AZ, USA) and the 19th Gums & Stabilizers for the Food Industry Conference, 2017 (Berlin, Germany).