Associate Professor
Biotechnology and Food Engineering Program
Research Group Website: Food Sustainabiome Lab
Dr. Yigal Achmon is a food and agriculture scientist. He currently holds an Associate Professor position at the Guangdong Technion-Israel Institute of Technion (GTIIT) (https://yigalachmon.wixsite.com/achmonslab). He holds a BSc in Biochemistry and food science from the Faculty of Agriculture at the Hebrew university of Jerusalem and direct PhD in Biotechnology and Food Engineering from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Dr. Achmon spent three years at Professor Christopher Simmon’s lab at the University of California at Davis as a postdoctoral researcher. There he had developed an interdisciplinary approach to industrial food waste valorization research which included collaborating with a plant scientist and a microbiologist among others. After his time at the University of California at Davis he had done a short postdoctoral at Volacni Israeli agricultural center, working on the microbiome of fresh cow milk. He then continued to a lecturer position at the GTIIT along with a research position at Ka Yin Leung’s group working on the microbial resistome.
Achmon Y, Joshua T Claypool, Sara Pace and Christopher W. Simmons. Assessment of biogas production and microbial ecology in a high solid anaerobic digestion of major California food processing residues. Bioresource Technology reports. Volume 5, February 2019, Pages 1-11
Edward S. Spang, Yigal Achmon, Irwin Donis-Gonzalez, Wendi A. Gosliner, Madison P. Jablonski-Sheffield, Md Abdul Momin, Laura C. Moreno, Sara A. Pace, Tom E. Quested, Kiara S. Winans, Thomas P. Tomich.Food Loss and Waste: Measurement, Drivers, and Solutions, Annual Review of Environment and Resources 2019 44:1
Achmon Y, F. Ryan Dowdy, Christopher W. Simmons, Cheinat Zohar-Perez, Zahi Rabinovitz and Amos Nussinovitch. Degradation and bio-availability of dried alginate beads in simulated soil. Applied Polymer Science (10.1002/app.20191192).
Jitendra Keshri, Yulia Krouptiski, Lareen Abu-Fani, Ygal Achmon, Riky Pinto and Shlomo Sela (Saldinger). Dynamics of bacterial communities in alfalfa and mung bean sprouts during home-storage. Journal of Food Microbiology.84 (2019): 103261
Achmon Y, Moshe Achmon, F. Ryan Dowdy, Orr Spiegel, Joshua T. Claypool, Juliano Toniato, and Christopher W. Simmons. Understanding the Anthropocene through the lens of landfill microbiomes. Journal of Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment Volume16, Issue 6, August 2018, Pages 354-360.
Achmon Y, Sade N, Rubio Wilhelmi MM, Fernández-Bayo JD, Harrold DR, Stapleton JJ, VanderGheynst JS, Blumwald E, and Simmons CW. The effects of soil biosolarization using mature compost and industrial tomato waste amendments on the chemical soil environment and greenhouse tomato growth. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.8b00424.
Achmon Y, Fernández-Bayo JD, Harrold DR, Su J, McCurry DG, Hernandez K, Dahlquist-Willard RM, Stapleton JJ, VanderGheynst JS, Simmons CW. 2017. Weed seed inactivation in soil mesocosms via biosolarization with mature compost and tomato processing waste amendments. Pest Management Science DOI: 10.1002/ps.4354.
Achmon Y, Harrold DR, Claypool JT, Stapleton JJ, VanderGheynst JS, and Simmons CW. 2016. Assessment of tomato and wine processing solid wastes as soil amendments for biosolarization. Waste Management 48:156-164.
Book Chapter
Oren Shelef, Jesús D Fernández-Bayo, Yonatan Sher, Valeria Ancona, and Yigal Achmon. Chapter – Elucidating the use of local food production to draw principles and challenges of sustainable agriculture. Book – Sustainable food systems (doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-811935-8.00002-0).
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