Toxins Webinar丨Remediation Strategies for Mycotoxins Control in Feed
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Mycotoxins are fungal secondary metabolites produced by fungi infecting and/or colonizing various agricultural commodities. As a result, they contaminate human food and animal feed and cause both economic and health issues in relation to their toxicity. Since it is hard to counteract their toxic effect once they have been ingested, strategies are needed to control and reduce their presence in feed. Such remediation strategies include physical, chemical, and/or biological process able i) to degrade the mycotoxins and/or ii) to adsorb them in order to reduce their intestinal bioavailability. Today, the webinar will present two elegant and innovative approaches to reduce the presence of mycotoxins in feed.
Date: 3 June, 2025
Time: 2:30 pm CEST | 8:30 am EDT | 8:30 pm CST
Webinar ID: 810 4682 3561
Webinar Secretariat: journal.webinar@mdpi.com
Meet the Event Chairs
Meet Our Speakers
Dr. Dieter Moll
dsm-firmenich Animal Nutrition and Health Research Center Tulln, Austria;
Dieter began his research career with structural investigation and engineering of crystalline bacterial cell surface layers for his PhD degree at BOKU University, Vienna, Austria, and of a bacteriophage DNA packaging motor for his post-doctorate research at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA. When he returned to Austria, he re-focused on agriculture-related research, matching his academic background, and in particular on mycotoxins, by joining the Biomin Research Center Tulln. He set up a research group working on mycotoxin degrading enzymes, and, with his team and collaboration partners, pioneered animal feed enzyme technology development for gastrointestinal detoxification of fumonisins and zearalenone. As Biomin is now part of dsm-firmenich, Dieter continues to focus on basic and applied enzyme research for remediation of mycotoxin contamination. In his spare time, Dieter also lectures for the biotechnology course of the University of Applied Sciences Tulln / Wr. Neustadt, Austria. He is married and has three grown-up children.
Dr. Christopher Garnham
Research Scientist ,London Research and Development Centre Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, London, Canada;
I am a biochemist and structural biologist by training. I completed my doctoral studies in the Department of Biochemistry at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, and my postdoctoral studies at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) at the NIH in Bethesda, Maryland. I am currently a Research Scientist at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada at the London Research and Development Centre in London, Ontario. I started my lab at Ag-Can in 2017, and currently, one of my main areas of focus is on the enzymatic biotransformation of mycotoxins.
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