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<div class="adapt adapt-1400"> <h1 class="font-size-xl">Biotechnical Faculty UL Secures up to 2.5 Million in European Funding for the ERA Chair - Foodomics Project</h1> <div class="page-header-figure-wrap"> <figure class="page-header-figure"> <picture> <source srcset="/assets/Sluzba-za-raziskovalno-dejavnost/Novice_slike/hrana-mobile__ExtRewriteWyJwbmciLCJ3ZWJwIl0.webp" type="image/webp" media="(max-width: 849px)"> <source srcset="/assets/Sluzba-za-raziskovalno-dejavnost/Novice_slike/hrana-desktop__ExtRewriteWyJwbmciLCJ3ZWJwIl0_ScaleMaxWidthWzE0MDBd.webp" type="image/webp"> <img src="/assets/Sluzba-za-raziskovalno-dejavnost/Novice_slike/hrana-desktop__ScaleMaxWidthWzE0MDBd.png" class="page-header-img" alt="Food" width="1400" height="554"> </picture> <figcaption class="page-header-figure-watermark"> <p>Ella Olsson/Pexels</p> </figcaption> </figure> </div> </div> <div class="general-two-column-layout module-v-adapt adapt adapt-1120"> <div class="col-left"> <div class="news-info"> <p class="font-size-xxs"> Date of publication: </p> <p><time datetime="2024-10-30"><strong>30. 10. 2024</strong></time></p> </div> <div class="news-info tags-info"> <p class="font-size-xxs visuallyhidden">Tag:</p> <ul class="tags-list"> <li> <span class="tag-item">Research achievements</span> </li> <li> <span class="tag-item">University Office for Research</span> </li> <li> <span class="tag-item">Research</span> </li> <li> <span class="tag-item">UL BF</span> </li> <li> <span class="tag-item">SDG 13</span> </li> <li> <span class="tag-item">SDG 3</span> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="col-right page-intro"> <p class="font-size-s">The Biotechnical Faculty of the University of Ljubljana (UL BF) has successfully obtained 2.5 million euros through the Horizon Europe research and innovation program for the ERA Chair project titled "Chair of Metabolomics in Food and Nutrition (Foodomics)." This project will establish a new interdisciplinary Center for Metabolomics.</p> </div> </div> </section> <section class="element-content module-v-adapt"> <span class="anchor-point" id="e19887"></span> <div class="adapt adapt-1120"> <div class="general-two-column-layout"> <div class="col-right typo-module"> <p>The project, coordinated by <strong>Prof. Dr. Nata拧a Poklar Ulrih</strong> from UL BF, includes collaboration not only with researchers from UL BF but also with colleagues from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics and the Faculty of Medicine at UL. The ERA Chair is led by internationally renowned expert <strong>Prof. Dr. Ur拧ka Vrhov拧ek</strong>, head of the metabolomics unit at the Edmund Mach Foundation in Trento, Italy. ERA Chair Foodomics aims to develop new analytical approaches and integrate infrastructure for metabolomic analyses in the food sector.</p> <p>Food systems contribute to climate change, the reduction of agricultural land, and biodiversity loss while simultaneously needing to respond to these changes. It is no surprise that the food industry faces numerous challenges, including maintaining nutritional adequacy, safety, and quality, reducing food waste, improving nutrition and health, responding to changing consumer preferences and lifestyles (e.g., increased demand for organic food), growing urbanization, and assessing the benefits and risks of emerging technologies.</p> <p>The establishment of the Center for Metabolomics research will catalyze and accelerate the integration of multiple excellent and pre-existing research groups, working together to create a critical mass of interdisciplinary knowledge necessary to improve national research in food, nutrition, and health. A well-established network of researchers and professors will integrate this knowledge into the educational process at UL.</p> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section class="element-gallery module-v-adapt"> <span class="anchor-point" id="e19888"></span> <div class="adapt adapt-1120"> <div class="general-two-column-layout"> <div class="col-right"> <div class="gallery-carousel"> <div class="gallery-item"> <figure class="js-gallery-item-figure"> <a class="gallery-item-link" data-fancybox="group-19888" data-alt="NPU-portret.jpg" href="/assets/Sluzba-za-raziskovalno-dejavnost/Novice_slike/NPU-portret.jpg" data-caption="prof. dr. Nata拧a Poklar Ulrih | Author: 沤eljko Stevani膰"> <picture> <source srcset="/assets/Sluzba-za-raziskovalno-dejavnost/Novice_slike/NPU-portret__ExtRewriteWyJqcGciLCJ3ZWJwIl0_FillWzkwMCw1MTBd.webp" type="image/webp"> <img src="/assets/Sluzba-za-raziskovalno-dejavnost/Novice_slike/NPU-portret__FillWzkwMCw1MTBd.jpg" width="900" height="510" alt="NPU-portret.jpg" loading="lazy"> </picture> </a> </figure> <div class="gallery-item-footer"> <p class="font-size-xxs">prof. dr. Nata拧a Poklar Ulrih</p> <p class="gallery-author font-size-xxs"> Author: 沤eljko Stevani膰</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div hidden> <p class="js-gc-btn-prev" data-prev-text="Previous"></p> <p class="js-gc-btn-next" data-next-text="Next"></p> </div> </section> <section class="element-content module-v-adapt"> <span class="anchor-point" id="e19889"></span> <div class="adapt adapt-1120"> <div class="general-two-column-layout"> <div class="col-left"> <h2 class="font-size-m">Project Activities</h2> </div> <div class="col-right typo-module"> <p>Under Foodomics, research will be based on a multi-omics approach to enhance food quality and traceability, understand environmental impacts (exposome), and facilitate better understanding of human health and diseases (obesity and diabetes, cancer metabolism, microbiota-driven metabolism in the human body). The research will include nutritional intervention studies, tracking natural bioactive compounds in the human body, studies of human and microbial metabolism, and the discovery and validation of biomarkers. This information will contribute to a better understanding of the impact of nutrition on human health, recognizing interindividual metabolic differences leading to different metatypes (a necessary step toward personalized nutrition), and producing higher-value food using new processing technologies to improve micronutrient bioavailability. The anticipated social impacts and benefits of ERA Chair Foodomics research include improved individual health and well-being, which will also reduce healthcare system burdens.</p> <p>The ERA Chair Foodomics project will also conduct studies on the molecular mechanisms underlying the biosynthesis of secondary compounds, crucial for advancements in bioactive food compounds, as well as in plant, microbial, and breeding biotechnology. This new knowledge will support the development of modules for combinatorial biosynthesis of natural products, potentially attracting interest from the pharmaceutical (dietary supplements) and food industries (functional foods and novel foods).</p> <p>The ERA Chair will address the structural integration and infrastructure development needed to create a critical mass of the latest datasets suitable for multimodal experiments, promoting interdisciplinarity and adhering to open science principles. Digital ERA tools will be used to optimize dissemination, access, and sharing of scientific knowledge, facilitating knowledge exchange and fulfilling open science principles for citizens, civil society, and end-users.</p> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section class="element-gallery module-v-adapt"> <span class="anchor-point" id="e19890"></span> <div class="adapt adapt-1120"> <div class="general-two-column-layout"> <div class="col-right"> <div class="gallery-carousel"> <div class="gallery-item"> <figure class="js-gallery-item-figure"> <a class="gallery-item-link" data-fancybox="group-19890" data-alt="vrhovsek.jpg" href="/assets/Sluzba-za-raziskovalno-dejavnost/Novice_slike/vrhovsek.jpg" data-caption="prof. dr. 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