8th Applied Sciences Webinar
Microbiome Innovations for Functional and Sustainable Food Systems
The development of sustainable agri-food systems for innovative and safe microbiome products, services, and bioprocesses is one of the key priorities within the European frames of the Circular Economy and the Green Deal. The development of novel foods, enriched with health-promoting microorganisms and compounds obtained via biotechnological routes to potentially enhance functional activities at a preventive, but also at a therapeutic level is in the heart of food innovation. Notably, this constitutes one of the main scientific axes of FOODBIOMES, a project that focuses on the development of a National Research Infrastructure that explores applications of microbiome in food systems. In this project, a number of in vitro and in vivo approaches, as well as clinical trials are designed to study, analyze and establish the beneficial properties of novel microbial strains and biotechnology products that are subsequently introduced into a series of food components and/or foods. Moreover, as the valorization of agro-industrial residues and food wastes confers an issue of vital importance for the global environmental governance, directly linked with environmental (e.g. energy, climate change, water, availability of resources), economic (e.g. resource efficiency, increasing costs, consumption, waste management, commodity markets) and social (e.g. health, equality) impacts, microbiome analysis and exploitation of novel strains can have a major impact in addressing these challenges. Likewise, the development of integrated biorefineries entail the extraction and recovery of value-added components (e.g. protein fractions, phenolic extracts) that could be evaluated and included to enhance the sustainability and functionality of food systems.
This webinar serves as an interactive educational event digging further into the current research and innovation trends of microbiome applications for functional and sustainable food systems.
Date: 20 January 2023
Time: 10:00 am CET | 11:00 am EET | 4:00 am EST | 5:00 pm CST Asia
Webinar ID: 815 7183 9581
Webinar Secretariat: applsci.webinar@mdpi.com