{"id":3470,"date":"2025-01-14T15:37:16","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T14:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/?p=3470"},"modified":"2025-01-14T15:52:50","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T14:52:50","slug":"phd-student-profile-irene-valenti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/2025\/01\/14\/phd-student-profile-irene-valenti\/","title":{"rendered":"PhD student profile, Irene Valenti"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p><strong>PhD Student<\/strong>: Irene Valenti (ORCID n. <a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3532-3195\">0000-0003-3532-3195<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3474\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/VALENTI_photo-PhD-profile.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/VALENTI_photo-PhD-profile.jpg 200w, https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/VALENTI_photo-PhD-profile-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Supervisor<\/strong>: Matias Pasquali, DeFENS<\/p>\n<p><strong>Co-tutor<\/strong>: Marco Saracchi, DeFENS<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dean<\/strong>: Prof. Diego Mora<\/p>\n<p><strong>Research area<\/strong>: Agri-Environment<\/p>\n<p><strong>Research topic <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mitigate the impact of threats on the production, quality, and safety of food products<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Project Synopsis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fungal pathogens in wheat grains are a significant threat to both human and animal health even due to the negative effects of some fungal secondary metabolites: the mycotoxins. Beneficial microorganisms composing the plant microbiota could be a promising and environmentally friendly strategy in degrading many organic compounds.\u00a0Moreover, microorganisms able to degrade mycotoxins sometimes become valuable biocontrol agents because some mycotoxins play a crucial role in pathogenesis.<\/p>\n<p>This project aims to identify and improve the detoxification activity of some microorganisms able to contrast the mycotoxin accumulation in grains products. An experimental laboratory evolution approach will be employed to stimulate the adaptation of microorganisms to new growth conditions, imposing a selection pressure based on increased mycotoxin contamination levels of exposure. Therefore, a multi-omics approach will be applied to investigate the mechanism of microbial-induced adaptation, the properties of new potential mycotoxin degrading enzymes and the microbial putative interactions with the environment.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3475\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Graphical-abstract-PhD-webs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Graphical-abstract-PhD-webs.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Graphical-abstract-PhD-webs-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Graphical-abstract-PhD-webs-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Project keywords<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mycotoxin; microbiota; wheat; evolution.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contacts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Department of Food, Environmental and Nutritional Sciences, DeFENS<\/p>\n<p>Universit\u00e0 degli Studi di Milano<\/p>\n<p>Via Celoria 2, 20133, Milan\/ Italy<\/p>\n<p>Email address: <a href=\"mailto:irene.valenti@unimi.it\">irene.valenti@unimi.it<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sponsor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Fellowship sponsor<\/em>: Universit\u00e0 degli Studi di Milano<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PhD Student: Irene Valenti (ORCID n. 0000-0003-3532-3195) Supervisor: Matias Pasquali, DeFENS Co-tutor: Marco Saracchi, DeFENS Dean: Prof. Diego Mora Research area: Agri-Environment Research topic Mitigate the impact of threats on the production, quality, and safety of food products \u00a0 Project Synopsis Fungal pathogens in wheat grains are a significant threat to both human and animal &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[93,59],"tags":[365,258,20,364],"class_list":{"0":"post-3470","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-phd-student-profile","9":"tag-evolution","10":"tag-microbiota","11":"tag-mycotoxin","12":"tag-wheat","13":"anons"},"modified_by":"admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3470"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3489,"href":"https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3470\/revisions\/3489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}