IAFP's European Student Travel Scholarship Maria Gkerekou Maria Gkerekou received the 2019 European Student Travel Scholarship. Ms. Gkerekou is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at the Agricultural University of Athens in Athens, Greece. Her research focuses on the evaluation of the impact of interactions between L. monocytogenes strains mimicking their co-existence in dairy food matrices (different structure and/or oxygen availability) and their subsequent passage from the gastrointestinal tract and how this co-existence is reflected on their phenotypic responses and gene expression of key virulence genes. Agricultural University of Athens Athens, Greece Yifan Zhang received the 2019 European Student Travel Scholarship. Ms. Zhang is a Ph.D. candidate in the Sustainable Food Processing Group at ETH Zurich in Zurich, Switzerland. Her research includes investigating milder, non-thermal food processing approaches to control bacterial spores. The processing technologies currently under investigation are high hydrostatic pressure (for high water activity foods) and low energy electron beam (for low water activity foods). Yifan Zhang ETH Zurich Zurich, Switzerland 330 Food Protection Trends July/August Sponsored by