Our research work within the young research group Micro- and Nanostructures of Food in the ZERN network focuses on the characterisation, isolation and extraction of micro- and nanostructures from animal and plant foods. Our planned steps include the development and application of efficient methods to isolate and purify these structures from various food sources. Our aim is to ensure high purity and quality of the preparations while ensuring practicable scalability beyond the laboratory scale. Physicochemical analysis of these extracted structures, including their size, composition and biological activity, will help to understand the potential for nutritional and health-related applications. Bioactive molecules and ingredients such as antioxidants, proteins, RNA and lipids will be identified and quantified using multi-omics approaches. Methods such as mass spectrometry, NMR spectroscopy and genome sequencing using next generation sequencing will be used.
Responsible for the young research group: Prof. Dr. Simone Lipinski (DIL) S.Lipinski@dil-ev.de
The ZERN young research group at the DIL currently consists of six female scientists: From left to right: Professor Simone Lipinski, B.Sc. Irina Kupriyanova, M.Sc. Laura Bielefeld, M.Sc. Emely Hübner, B.Sc. Fatameh Alami, Dr rer. nat. Wiebke Schlörmann.
