PhD Student: Luca Degradi ORCID n. 0000-0001-8778-3180
Supervisor: Matias Pasquali – DeFENS
Co-tutor: Marco Saracchi
Dean: Prof. Diego Mora
Research area: Agri-Environment
Research topic
Mitigate the impact of threats on the production, quality, and safety of food products.
Project Synopsis
Fusarium is a threat for food quality and safety. Emerging mycotoxins represent a risk for consumer health. The development of innovative detection and quantification methods for mycotoxin and the exploitation of genomic information for understanding the mechanism of cross-kingdom pathogens are important strategies to improve food safety and quality.
My PhD work will focus on emerging mycotoxin using non disruptive method for detection and quantification and the use of genomic information on Fusarium species to improve knowledge of this genus affecting human and crop.
Moreover novel data of the distribution of emerging mycotoxins in wheat will be generated.
Project keywords
Mycotoxins, food pathogen, plant pathology, Fusarium
Contacts
Department of Food, Environmental and Nutritional Sciences, DeFENS
Università degli Studi di Milano
Via Celoria 2, 20133, Milan/ Italy
luca.degradi@unimi.it
Sponsor
Fellowship sponsor:
Award Number: Project code PE00000003, Concession Decree No. 1550 of 11 October 2022 adopted by the Italian Ministry of University and Research, CUP D93C22000890001, Project title “ON Foods – Research and innovation network on food and nutrition Sustainability, Safety and Security – Working ON Foods”.
Project sponsor:
Funder: Project funded under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP), Mission 4 – Component 2 Investment 1.3 – Call for proposals No. 341 of 15 March 2022 of Italian Ministry of University and Research funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU;