This quarter we officially welcomed Zatil Afrah, first-year PhD student in Food Science and Technology, to our group. She came to us from Indonesia where she worked as a researchers in Research Center for Chemistry at the Indonesian Institute of Sciences. She was involved in several research projects including method development for heavy metal analysis in foods, film-forming ability of fish proteins, isoflavone profile of tempe (a fermented food from soybean) and toxicity study of stinging nettle leaf extract. She has a BS in Food Science and Technology from Bogor Agricultural University in Indonesia and MS in Food Science and Technology from Oregon State University.