Fellowships
Project | Research project title | Research focus | Area | Partner Organization | Country of Secondment |
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1 | To study the microbiome of traditional fermented foods to develop a catalogue of microbial species with excellent metabolic potential and technological relevance that can be used for industrial purposes. | Food Microbiome | -Teagasc -Sacco System | Ireland Italy | |
2 | To study the potential of the gut microbiome as target of intervention in food allergy and development of new dietary strategies for prevention/treatment of food allergy. | Human Microbiome | -KraftHeinz | The Netherlands | |
3 | To study the relation between individual changes in postprandial glucose response and markers of habitual diet, microbiome composition/functions, gastric emptying rate, and postprandial gastrointestinal hormones in patients with type 1 diabetes | Human Microbiome | -Roche Diabetes Care -Chalmers University | Italy Sweden | |
4 | To study the role of microbiome in affecting the anti-tumor response elicited by oncolytic vaccines | Human Microbiome | -SANOFI | Italy | |
5 | To investigate the mechanism of action of natural neuropeptides on the gut microbiome to help the development of novel synthetic peptides for microbiome modulation | Microbiome/ Metabolome interface | -InventionBio -University of Pennsylvania
| Poland USA
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6 | To investigate the structural modifications induced by gut microbiota on the main polysaccharidic and phenolic components of selected agri-food wastes | Environmental Microbiome |
-Beiersdorf AG -Universidad Autonoma de Coahuila | Germany Mexico | |
7 | To investigate the microbiome of wild boar as a model species to unveil the emergence, spread and persistence of Antimicrobial resistance (at the “One Heath” interface) | Animal Microbiome | -University of Gent -Fattoria Campiglione | Belgium Italy | |
8 | To design and validate a specific “microbiome panel” for microbiome characterization, in combination with other standardized predictive biomarkers to improve the selection of cancer patients for specific therapies | Human Microbiome | -University of Padua - PANGAEA BIOTECH | Italy | |
9 | To investigate the microbiome of shallow-water hydrothermal vents and explore its role in biogeochemical cycling and as source of industrially relevant microbial enzymes | Environmental Microbiome | -Novamont -Middle Eastern Technical University | Italy Turkey | |
10 | To clarify the role of diet and gut microbiome composition as risk factors in the pathophysiology of Parkinson’s disease in relation to behavioral and mechanistic alterations leading to neuronal loss upon high fat western diet consumption | Nutrition and Microbiome | -APC Microbiome -Neilos | Ireland Italy | |
11 | Mapping the microbiome in meat food chain, from primary production to retail, understanding how microbiome of the environment affects shelf-life, quality and safety and how processing conditions may modulate microbial spoilage dynamics. | Food Microbiome | -Dawn Meats Group -University of Leon | United Kingdom Spain | |
12 | To study interactions of different bacterial populations with different food matrices. A microfluidic mixer will allow to fabricate fine-scale micro-biogeographies by exploiting chaotic advection. | Microfluidics for Microbiome | -KraftHeinz -Swansea University | Netherlands United Kingdom |