Prof. Waclaw Dabrowski Institute of Agricultural and Food Biotechnology – State Research Institute was founded in 1949 in Warsaw as the Main Institute of Agricultural and Food Industry. Having changed its name several times, last one given in 2012 before the incorporation into its structures of two other institutes with a long tradition: The Institute of Meat and Fat Industries and the Sugar Industry Institute, as well as several other research laboratories. Currently, the institute consists of 12 departments equipped with modern laboratories and using more than 600 accredited research methods.
The main task of the Institute is to conduct basic and applied research in the field of agri-food biotechnology, safe food production and storage, supporting agri-food industry and carrying out activities aimed at improving the quality of people’s life. The Institute cooperates with industrial partners from various areas of the agri-food sector and related sectors, including environmental protection, renewable energy and refrigeration.
The Institute employs over 200 employees, including three titular professors, nine associate professors and 33 PhD researchers.
Prof. Wacław Dąbrowski Institute of Agricultural and Food Biotechnology – State Research Institute conducts scientific, development and implementation work in the field of biotechnology and agri-food technology. These works, of final application type, encompass many disciplines, such as:
technical microbiology and food microbiology, cellular engineering, process engineering, chemistry and biochemistry, food technology, human nutrition and dietetics. The Institute’s fields of activity also include many sectors of the agri-food industry: yeast industry, spirit distillation, viticulture, vinegar production, beer brewing, fruit and vegetable processing, cereal processing and storage, potato and starch processing, bakery and confectionery, food concentrates, frozen and chilled food, sugar production, meat and fat processing, and the production of microbiological preparations (enzymatic, probiotic, starter cultures and others)
Research areas – key words:
food safety, food analysis, food quality, biodiversity, functional food, food concentrates, renewable energy sources, starch products, fermentation technology, meat and fat industry, fruits, vegetables, cereal processing, bakery, distillers, refrigeration, sugar industry, microbiology, dairy industry, collection of cultures.
News:
National Agricultural Field Days 2023
On the 3-5th June, the National Agricultural Field Days 2023 were held in Sielinek in the Wielkopolskie Voivodeship. The event was organized by the Wielkopolska Agricultural Advisory Center in Poznań. The National Agricultural Field Days is a celebration of Polish...
47th Annual Conference on Yeasts
On May 16-19th Joanna-Bucka Kolendo, Ph.D. from the Department of Microbiology and Ms. Agata Wierzbińska, Coordinator for international cooperation, IBPRS-PIB participated in the 47th Annual Conference on Yeasts. The conference was organized by the Institute of...
CBE JU Info Days 2023
On the 20th April 2023, Joanna Bucka-Kolendo, Ph.D (Department of Microbiology), Łukasz Woźniak, Ph.D. (Department of Food Analysis) and Ms. Agata Wierzbińska (International Relations) participated in the CBE JU Info Days 2023. The event of the Circular Bio-based...
COST Action: CA21149 – ‘Reducing acrylamide exposure of consumers by a cereals supply-chain approach targeting asparagine’
On the 12th of May, Anna Szafrańska, Ph.D. attended the meeting of one of the working groups of the COST Action: CA21149 – 'Reducing acrylamide exposure of consumers by a cereals supply-chain approach targeting asparagine'. The members of the WG2: Agronomy and Plant...
29th International Scientific Conference Progress in Technology of Vegetable Fats
29th International Scientific Conference Progress in Technology of Vegetable Fats Rapeseed Oil – Polish Gold Falenty (near Warsaw), 15-16 June, 2023 Organized by Prof. Waclaw Dabrowski Institute of Agricultural and Food Biotechnology State Research Institute...
IBPRS-PIB participation in the MALDI TOF MS Meeting DB tool for MIRRI in Paris / 28-29th March 2023
On the 28-29th March, Joanna Bucka-Kolendo, PhD, Eng. and Justyna Nasiłowska, MSc, Eng. from the Department of Microbiology, IBPRS-PIB participated in the MALDI TOF MS Meeting DB tool for MIRRI - an expert panel organized by the Microbial Resource Research...
EUROPEAN AGRICULTURAL FORUM 2023
On 22-23rd March, the European Agricultural Forum 2023 was organized in Rzeszów. During the 2-day event, a number of discussion panels were held, during which the future trends and challenges for the European agriculture were broadly discussed. The main themes of the...
BIOEAST Congress 2023
BIOEAST Congress 2023 On the 15-16th March, the high level international BIOEAST Congress 2023 was organized in Warsaw under the auspices of the Polish Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development with the support of the Horizon 2020 BIOEASTsUP project. The Congress...
HO-FOOD Project Dissemination Event
On the 14th of February, the IBPRS team from the Department of Fruit and Vegetable Product Technology responsible for the realization of the Work Package 4 and the Work Package 7 of the Ho-Food project organized a dissemination activity. The researchers involved in...
Call for Papers to open access journal Agriculture
On behalf of the open access journal Agriculture (IF: 3.408, ISSN 2077-0472), we are inviting researchers to submit articles to the special issue entitled "Strategies to Improve the Security and Nutritional Quality of Crop Species". Anna Szafrańska, Ph.D., Head of the...
WHEATBIOME: Kick-off Meeting
On the 25th of January, the representatives of the Institute of Agricultural and Food Biotechnology took part in a Kick-off Meeting of the recently launched Horizon Europe project WHEATBIOME – Unravelling the Potential of the Wheat Microbiome for the Development of...
Innovative high pressure process to increase the preservation of ready-to-eat Organic FOOD
The increasing demand for a healthy diet calls for an evolution of the food processing chain, with special attention to fresh and organic products. In particular, quality and safety are key characteristics for a sustainable development. Ready to Eat (RTE) fresh...
Participation of IBPRS-PIB representative in the International Visitors Leadership Program „U.S. Agricultural Trade and Food Safety – a multi regional Project”.
In November 2022, Ms. Anna Szafrańska, Ph.D. Eng. from the Department of Grain Processing and Bakery of IBPRS-PIB participated in the International Visitors Leadership Program „U.S. Agricultural Trade and Food Safety – a multi regional Project”. This three-week...
INTERNSHIP OF THE INSTITUTE’S YOUNG RESEARCHER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO
INTERNSHIP OF THE INSTITUTE’S YOUNG RESEARCHER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO In November 2022, Ms. Justyna Szczepańska, Ph.D. Eng. from the Department of Fruit and Vegetable Product Technology of IBPRS-PIB completed a two-week internship at the University of Salerno,...
Professor Artur Świergiel, Dsc., Director of the Institute of Agricultural and Food Biotechnology has been appointed the Chair of the Higher Education, Science and Innovation Council
We are pleased to announce that Professor Artur Hugo Świergiel, Dsc., Director of the Institute of Agricultural and Food Biotechnologyhas been appointed the Chair of the Higher Education, Science and Innovation Councilconstituted on the 22nd of November by the...
BIOEAST Sub-Regional Validation Workshop of Bioeast Strategic and Innovation Research Agenda
On the 26th of October, the representatives of the IBPRS-PIB participated in the BIOEAST Sub-Regional Validation Workshop of Bioeast Strategic and Innovation Research Agenda. The meeting was organized at the premises of the National Institute of Culture and Rural...
European High Pressure Research Group Meeting on High Pressure Science and Technology
Professor of IBPRS-PIB elected EHPRG Committee Member We are pleased to announce that during the 59th European High Pressure Research Group Meeting on High Pressure Science and Technology, which took place in September 2022, Krystian Marszałek, PhD, Eng., was elected...
XXVIII Scientific Conference – Progress in Technology of Vegetable Fats
XXVIII Scientific Conference Progress in Technology of Vegetable Fatswill be organized by the:Department of Meat and Fat Technology of the Institute of Agricultural and Food Biotechnology - State Research InstitutePolish Association of Oil ProducersScientific and...
Meeting with the representatives of science and industry of the United Arab Emirates
On the 15th of September, the Managing Director of the Institute of Agricultural and Food Biotechnology – State Research Institute, Professor Artur Świergiel attended an official meeting with the representatives of science and industry of the United Arab Emirates. The...
Ohmic heating as an emerging technology for sustainable food processing – Mohsen Gavahian, Ph.D.
Invited lecture Ohmic heating as an emerging technology for sustainable food processing Mohsen Gavahian, Ph.D. National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan On the 8th of September 2022, the Institute of Agricultural and Food Biotechnology was...
Taste Receptors: Past and Present – Prof. Danielle Reed
Invited lecture Taste Receptors: Past and Present Prof. Danielle Reed Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, USA On the 3rd of June 2022, the Institute of Agricultural and Food Biotechnology was a host to an invited lecture entitled Taste Receptors:...
Representative of the Institute of Agricultural and Food Biotechnology on the economic mission to Egypt
On 29th -31st May, the economic mission to Egypt was organized by the Polish Investment and Trade Agency and the Polish Chamber of Commerce. The mission accompanied the visit of the President of the Republic of Poland to Egypt and was combined with the Poland-Egypt...
Post-doc position in IBPRS
For more information you can contact dr inż. Renata Choińska by e-mail: renata.choinska@ibprs.plPost-doc position in Prof. Waclaw Dabrowski Institute of Agricultural and Food Biotechnology - State Research InstituteRakowiecka st. 36, 02-532 Warsaw, Poland End date:...
Online WP8 Workshop IS_MIRRI21 (webinar)
We would like to invite you to the workshop entitled „Implementation and Sustainability of Microbial Resource Research Infrastructure for the 21st Century”, organized as part of the Microbial Resource Research Infrastructure (MIRRI) project under the Horizon 2020...
