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Facilities, Research Opportunities and Trials

  • Clinical trials of food products or drugs in children and adult cohorts
  • Availability of biobanks of biological samples children and adult cohorts
  • Trials in cellular lines and animal models
  • Nutritional analyses
  • Clinical and anthropometric analyses
  • Laboratories fully equipped for traditional and molecular microbiology
  • In-vitro cultivation and testing of microorganisms
  • Bioreactors and facilities for cultivation of extremophile microorganisms
  • Metagenome, metatranscriptome and whole-genome sequencing and data analysis
  • Single-cell sequencing
  • Bioinformatics and biostatistics
  • Data center available for computationally-intensive analyses
  • Equipment for volatile and non-volatile analysis of metabolites through chromatography (HPLC-DAD, LC/MS/MS, GC/PFC, GC/FID, GC/MS, ICP/MS, GC/TCD, MALDI-TOF)
  • Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)
  • Quali-quantitative measurement of sensorial activity of volatile molecules (GC/OPD)
  • Spectrophotometers
  • Purification and identification of novel compounds from complex matrices
  • Biosynthesis of synthetic compounds for different applications
  • Laboratory for sensorial analysis
  • Equipment and facilities for insects rearing
  • Greenhouses and phytotrones
  • Plant growth experiments in controlled conditions