Saajewa Dasent-Swygart (she/her/hers)

Graduate Research Assistant
University of Minnesota
Saint Paul, MN, United States

Saajewa's research is focused on screening varieties of camelina and pennycress for protein nutritional quality, functionality, and digestibility in an effort to develop optimal lines of each crop variety for food use and blending of winter cover crops. Saajewa has since completed an R&D Product Development summer internship with Cargill in 2022, where she worked on the application of soluble fibers in bakery and snack goods and an internship with The German Institute of Food Technologies (DIL) in 2024 where she investigated high moisture exturision (HME) techniques for plant proteins.

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Presentation(s):

• Enhancing the Viability of Camelina (Camelina sativa) and Pennycress (Thlaspi arvense) Proteins through Breeding

  Monday, April 28, 2025
  5:00 PM – 6:00 PM PST