Food Analytics and Biotechnology (UCPH)

🌱 Exploring the health-promoting properties of legumes 🌱 A new research project headed by Iben Lykke Petersen has just commenced, setting out to investigate the immune-regulating potential of legumes, especially in regard to their potential to prevent intestinal diseases. “First, we will investigate if the research that has shown health-promoting effect in legumes holds true. From there, we need to develop new ways to best utilize the proteins in legumes that hopefully prove to be health-promoting. Pre-states to colon cancer are among the diseases that it could help to prevent, so it’s some quite significant health challenges where legumes might have preventive potential,” explains Iben Lykke Petersen. The project is funded by Plant2Food, and is a partnership including Wageningen University & Research and the companies SEGES Innovation, CONTEMPEHRARY and Bioptimate. 🔗 Read more about the project here: https://lnkd.in/eVHKS3dQ #legumes #researchproject #immunehealth #food

3 years, a million hand-pipetted samples, a trillion hours in the lab, a research stay in Australia, 6 scientific articles, a concussion, and a bunch of other events later...I got my PhD degree! 👩🏼🔬 The classic stereotype of a PhD candidate is a burnt-out student who asks themselves why they got into this, but my experience was far from that. I enjoyed it so much! Working on my own project, being the main driver, having the flexibility to dig deep into my topics of interest and to follow my own timing, being acknowledged for my hard work... I had a blast!☀️ My PhD thesis consists of a multi-disciplinary research that combines raw material processing, microbiology, food material science and aroma/flavour chemistry to encourage an evolution in the plant-based cheese field towards high-quality products, relying on plant protein functionality and the use of bacteria and enzymes.🧫 It was an awesome day! I defended my thesis and explained to many skilled scientists and to a large part of my people what I had been busy with for the past 3 years. Thanks, Stephan Drusch Sangeeta Prakash, and Serafim Bakalis for appreciating and assessing my work and for the interesting discussion. This thesis came together with the support of a lot of people from Food Analytics and Biotechnology (UCPH), Chr. Hansen, University of Melbourne and CSIRO. Thank you for helping me achieve this big milestone! Poul Erik Jensen Saeed Rahimi Yazdi Raquel Fernández Varela Kim Sørensen Vera Kuzina Poulsen Patrizia Buldo Sally Gras Lydia Ong Amy Logan Regine Stockmann Joanna G. Kalliopi Vlachvei Frank Haagensen Frantiska Tomasikova and a very long et al. !

Vi har besøgt forskningsgruppen for plantebaserede fødevarer og biokemi på Københavns Universitet - University of Copenhagen til en snak om, hvordan vi i højere grad kan samarbejde om at koble forskning og praksis 🌱 Forskningsgruppen imponerede os med en række præsentationer af deres aktuelle forskningsprojekter. Projekterne spænder bredt fra udviklingen af en plantebaseret ost til potentialet i mikroalger som en ny, bæredygtig fødevareingrediens. Til fælles har de alle, at de byder på ny og spændende viden, som kan vise sig banebrydende for udviklingen af fremtidens grønne fødevarer med fokus på kvalitet, smag og næringsindhold 💡 Hos Plantebranchen glæder vi os til at følge projekterne de kommende år og løbende dele resultater, som kan have betydning for markedet. Vi sætter stor pris på, at forskerne inviterer indenfor og deler deres viden 🔮 Læs mere om forskningsgruppen her 👉 https://lnkd.in/d-edJb26 Tak til Poul Erik Jensen, Iben Lykke Petersen, René Lametsch, Ourania Gouseti og Anna Haldrup for en interessant dag! Og tak til PhD-studerende og Postdocs for at give os indblik i deres arbejde 👇 Marcos Hamborg Vinde (præsenteret af Poul Erik) Mads Emil Larsen Qinhui Xing Bo Yuan Ashwitha Amin (præsenteret af Poul Erik) Patricia Duque-Estrada Anna Christian Lichuang Cao Malene Lihme Olsen