Fellowships

List of the offered positions

CRESCENDO Doctoral Programme will recruit 10 international Early-Stage Researchers (ESRs-PhDs) applying for one of the 12 projects listed below:
Project
Research project title
Research focus
Area
Partner Organization
Country of Secondment
 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
-BioArte

Italy
Malta

 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

 

 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
Spain

 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