Mirtalebi Places in Oral Competition
![Mirtalebi, left, is pictured with her poster and Dr. Alex Chouljenko, Director of the NC State Seafood Lab at the Center for Marine Sciences and Technology (CMAST).](https://cmast.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/3.png)
Sanaz Mirtalebi, NC State PhD student in Food, Bioprocessing & Nutrition Sciences, was recognized at last week’s annual Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) meeting in Chicago, for a poster presentation on her research titled, “Combining fish and crustacean byproducts to produce pelleted aquafeed: Effect of byproduct type on pellet properties.” Mirtalebi recently placed third in an oral student competition on the same research in the Sustainable Food Systems Division of the IFT.