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Nutrigenomics and molecular nutrition

Project
Finished 01.08.2018 - 31.12.2021

Nutrigenomics and non-communicable or chronic diseases: Nutrigenomics is an emerging science in nutrition that uses molecular tools to better understand the physiological responses obtained through a certain diet in individuals and population groups.

At the Institute of Public Health and Clinical Nutrition, within the main research interests of the nutrigenomics research line is to study the molecular interactions between metabolites produced by the gut microbiota derived from specific dietary nutrients that protect from type 2 diabetes and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease under this specific project

Project name

• Molecular and metabolic mechanisms for the role of gut microbiota-derived indole propionic acid (IPA) in the prevention of type 2 diabetes

Other projects:

• Studying the gene-pathway associations for IPA both for adipose and liver tissues.

PhD student
Ratika Sehgal, [email protected]

Post Doc researcher
Mariana Ilha, [email protected]
Marjo Tuomainen, [email protected]

Cooperation

  • Prof. Jussi Pihlajamäki

    UEF (transcriptomics and epigenetic studies, FADSDIET2 study)

  • Prof. Kirsi Virtanen

    UEF (PET study)

  • Prof. Ursula Schwab

    UEF (dietary intervention studies)

  • Emeritus Profs: Matti Uusitupa and Jaakko Tuomilehto

    Finnish Diabetes Prevention Study

  • Dr. Kati Hanhineva

    UEF (non-targeted metabolomics studies)

  • Prof. Charlotte Ling, Lund University

    (DNA methylation studies)

  • Prof. Stine Ulven, Oslo University

    (PBMC transcriptomics studies)

  • Prof. Rikard Landberg

    Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

  • Prof. Cristiane Leitão

    UFRGS, Brazil (nutritional, dietary and metabolic aspects in obesity and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease)

  • Dr. Márcio Flávio Moura de Araújo

    nursing sciences, UNILAB/Fortaleza

  • Dr. Luciana Vercoza Viana

    Endocrinology and Nutrology sciences, HCPA/UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil

  • Dr. Thais Steemburgo

    Course in Nutrition Genomics in non-communicable chronic diseases, UFRGS, Post-Graduation Program in Nutrition and Health, Brazil

  • Dr. Helen Hermana M. Hermsdorff

    Nutrition and health, UFV/Viçosa, Brazil

Publications

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