Process Engineers, Capital Projects Management, HR & Commercial Lawyers

RIS Talents
mode: on-site

We have opportunities as Process Engineers, Capital Projects Management, HR & Commercial Lawyers

Area:

• innovation project trials and analysis
• olive oil extraction tests and sensory analysis
• new emulsions development

Carbon market sink research and development project, helping to define the framework and create the plan of action for creating this new business area inside the company.

MARKETING & SALES DEPARTMENT. We work on partner network development and fidelization and to the development of a resellers network. Both the networks are growing at an international scale and require team work with accounting skills.

RIS Talents
mode: on-site/hybrid

R&D DEPARTMENT. R&D is mostly focused on developing algorithms for pests, water balance, phoenology forecasts and for other spatial data related information such as yeld predictions.

SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION AA
• Calculate the status of CO2 emissions in the company, setting a real and achievable goal for 2025
• Implement a plan to improve the current sustainability model of one of the company’s main brands.
• Carry out a complete analysis of circular economy for one of the products of one of the company’s main brands.
• Map a DSG (Sustainable Development Objectives) plan within the company.

RIS Talents
mode: on-site

SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION AA
• Calculate the status of CO2 emissions in the company, setting a real and achievable goal for 2025
• Implement a plan to improve the current sustainability model of one of the company’s main brands.
• Carry out a complete analysis of circular economy for one of the products of one of the company’s main brands.
• Map a DSG (Sustainable Development Objectives) plan within the company.

• Insect Colony Upkeep
• Insect Feeding Trials
• Experiment assistance

RIS Talents
mode: on-site

• Product Development (biology/business/marketing)
• R&D

We have various positions including:
• Product development: creating prototypes, MVP product
• Dietician/nutritionist/ fitness nutrition:
Content preparation in personalized nutrition, e.g recipes, articles, tips
• Product design: UI/UX
• Business development/ marketing

RIS Talents
mode: hybrid

● Product development
● Product design
● Product marketing
● Business development
● Nutrition content

The selected candidate will be involved in the international cooperation R&D project, FIT4REUSE (https://fit4reuse.org/), an innovation action funded by the PRIMA programme. Main activities are:
• to search on existing literature about water reuse in agriculture
• to extract and summarize practical information
• to prepare guidelines for adequate management of reclaimed water in agriculture (e.g. irrigation methods and technologies)
• to adapt these contents into adequate materials for practitioners training (e.g. fact-sheets, ppt presentation, etc.).
• to develop a mass balance calculation tool based on Excel to calculate fertilizer dosage using reclaimed water for irrigation

• Research of our data on animal welfare
• Research and develop of existing barn computers to connect them and evaluate the data
• AI of the data we generate on farms
• Research how the consumer thinks about Data in barns
• C-Programming, Microcontroller, go, java, kotlin, python, nodjes

RIS Talents

● Research of our data on animal welfare
● Research and develop of existing barn computers to connect them and evaluate the data
● AI of the data we generate on farms
● Research how the consumer thinks about Data in barns
● C-Programming, Microcontroller, go, java, kotlin, python, nodjes

MSc and graduate students will complete a training programme, achieving a competitive curriculum vitae that will help them in their professional future in or out the academia.

RIS Talents
mode: on-site/hybrid

As PhD or Postdoc, they will carry out a high-quality research training delivered in a highly motivated research environment, acquiring new skills and providing them a complete career development

Internal: Wine, dairy, cured meat fermentations or biomass production. New product development and optimization of fermentations
• Applied microbiology and biotechnology
• Molecular biology (PCR, Real Time PCR, Sequencing, NGS, Genotyping)
• Food analysis (HPLC, GC-FID, GCMS, Texture analysis etc)
• Courses and personal mentoring will be available for personal development.
External: Biosensors development (pathogen and pesticides detection).
• Data collection from various food industries (dairy, wineries, ready to eat vegetables) with an innovative technology developed by EMBIO and CUT researchers
• Models developed in food safety and work on further development.
• Mentoring from researchers/entrepreneurs in business will be available
More details will be discussed with RIS Fellows on interviews. The team strives for equality and inclusiveness, offers an excellent working environment, and wishes all interns work on projects they show interest.

RIS Talents
mode: on-site

Interns are expected to show leadership skills and initiatives to perform independent research and development under the mentorship of experienced researchers, academic faculty and entrepreneurs.
Internal: Wine, dairy, cured meat fermentations or biomass production. New product development and optimization of fermentations
External: Biosensors development General Work/tasks/activities will be:
• project management
• host activities participation and dissemination
• participate in Horizon Europe grant writing
Indicative lab and/or field tasks/activities will be:
• Visit collaborating industries (external project – EMBIO)
• Data collection
• Data analysis
• Algorithm development (together with experts – external project EMBIO)
• Microbiome analysis (Internal project – CUT)
• 5L Bioreactor operation and experiments (Internal project – CUT)
More details will be discussed with RIS Talents on interviews. The team strives for equality and inclusiveness, offers an excellent working environment and wishes all interns work on projects they show interest.

● Develop botanical methods for assessing yield and prediction of crop-related features based on the phenological developments of the crops using satelite images.
● Analyse the influence of climatic factors and extreme weather events on the health of agricultural crops.
● Analyse crop diseses associated with lack of nutriens such as N, P, K, Fe, Mn, S.
● Advise and develop reccomendations for our customers yo improve crop conditions nd soil quality through optimised ure of irrigation, fertilisers and increses yield.
● Experience in viviculture is a plus.

Innovation Management
• Project Management
• Design and Implementation of Innovation Projects in the FoodTech sector
• Communication and Dissemination

RIS Talents
mode: on-site

● Innovation Management,
● Project Management Design and Implementation of Innovation Projects in the FoodTech sector

• Research activities about application of Pulsed Electric Field (PEF) technology
• Possible topics: Influence of PEF on: Milk and functional characteristics. Extraction of valuable compounds from microalgae. Growth of yeast and Extraction of compounds. Vegetable processing
• Marketing Research: Acceptance of Pulsed Electric Field (PEF) and planning of appropriate informing actions

RIS Talents
mode: on-site

● Research activities about application of Pulsed Electric Field (PEF) technology
● Possible topics: Influence of PEF on: Milk and functional characteristics. Extraction of valuable compounds from microalgae. Growth of yeast and Extraction of compounds. Vegetable processing
● Marketing Research: Acceptance of Pulsed Electric Field (PEF) and planning of appropriate informing actions

• Desk research on scientific topics or events;
• Seeking content from reliable sources (e.g. other organisations, traditional and online media), reviewing information, and composing content suitable for target outlets; Undertaking simply technical updates for websites (WordPress) and social media; Preparing content newsletters (MailChimp) and information for events
• Attending meetings and events hosted by relevant organisations;
• Monitoring outputs from relevant organisations, and publishing information via the website, social media, newsletter, or members’ bulletins; Background research on organisations working in food and health research
• Assisting in delivery of events; advertising and promotion of Association and EU-funded project events.
• Development of online questionnaires, collection of data and elaboration of recommendations, based on the data collected
• Support for Association staff, as related to EU-projects or Association business

RIS Talents
mode: on-site/on-line

We are looking for a creative online content writer, producing highimpact, clear, and engaging copy for a wide range of online formats and activities, including articles, press releases, blog posts, guides, social media, and web content. You must have demonstrable fluency in English, good communication and organisational skills, and be willing to be part of a busy team, some members of which are remote workers. An ability to multi-task and meet deadlines, take the initiative, propose topics, and juggle multiple tasks simultaneously are essential. Knowledge about food science is not important, but curiosity about ood, nutrition or health would make your day more interesting. Basic knowledge of WordPress CMS and Google Analytics and content marketing, link building and SEO would be an advantage.
With appropriate support, you will be:
• Producing and posting high-quality content daily
• Running content marketing campaigns and tracking and reporting campaign metrics
• Sending email outreach and link-building campaigns

RIS FellowshipsRIS Fellowships

• Participation in the preparation and conduct of workshops, trainings and professional courses in the workshop kitchen, with particular emphasis on practical workshops, eg based on cuisines from different regions / parts of the world or with the use of specific groups of products: dairy or vegetables. Testing, evaluating and improving scenarios during workshops.
• Preparation of innovative and unique educational materials especially for children on food waste prevention, healthy diet, zero waste idea and sustainable development (eg on-line game, quiz, board game, etc.).
• Assistance in organizing and participating in the World Food Day with EIT Food, the ECO TRENDY event.
• Support in the organization and implementation of events, social campaigns, actions in ongoing projects.
• Participation in creating new activities and international projects.
• Opportunity to participate in a “forest adventure” as part of the FOLM (From Outdoor to Labor Market) project.

The intern would be involved in marketing, specifically the set-up of online campaigns for ‘Happy Plate’, which aims to attract families with picky eaters (young children) to help with preparation of tasty meals with more vegetables (healthier options). Tasks would focus on the following:
• Support online campaign strategy building
• Support online campaign execution

Plant based food
• Product development
• Elderly nutrition
• Glycemic control

RIS Talents
mode: on-site

• Plant based food
• Product development
• Elderly nutrition
• Glycemic control

1. Area: Communication.
• Developing of corporate communication.
• Information gathering
• Processing of information
• Marketing study
A journalist will be the best option
2. Area: Production at a Preserves Industry
Industrial engineer with knowledge about industrial production: Maintenance, lean production, management .The intern will support in the evaluation of the food production process and will search for improvements.
3. Area: Production at the Poultry Industry
Industrial engineer with knowledge about industrial maintenance, lean production, management. The intern will support in the evaluation of the food production process and will search for improvements.

● To learn how to encapsulate bioactives with the electrohydrodynamic processing technology.
● To produce particles to improve the nutritional value of food products.
● To characterize the particles (SEM, TEM, FTIR, EE, PV, DPPH among others).
● To study the permeability of the biactive through the intestine using Caco-2 cells.

The intern will participate in education and innovation projects with tasks related to:
• Organization and implementation of events such as workshops, talks, hackathons, etc. giving support to logistics, dissemination materials development, event promotion, recruitment campaigns, reporting activities, etc.)
• Support for social media-related tasks (trends search, and publications).

• Laboratory research regarding natural food products and their bioactive compounds in aging, obesity and other chronic diseases with thermogenic studies: Natural extract characterization, in vitro culture cells management, RNA extraction, RT-qPCR, Protein extraction, Western blot, immunohistochemistry, Elisa, Seahorse technology
• Scientific papers redaction, innovative strategies ; -Group meetings; -Seminars presentations

RIS Talents
mode: hybrid

The intern will participate in education and innovation projects with tasks related to:
● Participate in the design of education and innovation activities in the field of nutrition and food science such as workshops, talks, co-creation sessions, hackathons, etc.
● Mentoring students participating in educational programs organized in the frame of EIT Food projects
● Assisting in the writing of new proposals
● Reporting activities outcome

● Laboratory research regarding natural food products and their bioactive compounds in aging, obesity and other chronic diseases with thermogenic studies: Natural extract characterization, in vitro culture cells management, RNA extraction, RT-qPCR, Protein extraction, Western blot, immunohistochemistry, Elisa, Seahorse technology
● Scientific papers redaction, innovative strategies
● Group meetings
● Seminars presentations

Fast methods for food analysis, High efficient sample preparation strategies for food analysis

RIS Talent

Sample preparation strategies for faster food analysis
Non targeted methods for food analysis
Nano-material assisted food analysis

Main tasks: Ultra-sensitive tools for detection antibiotics as a new strategy to control treatment and withdrawal period after cattle antibiotic therapy.
Area: biosensors based on ssDNA; monitoring bacterial infection in mammary gland; simultaneous detection few analytes
Activity: cyclic voltammetry, square wave voltammetry, electrochemical impedance), UV-vis spectroscopy, surface plasmon resonance.

Main tasks: An electrochemical immunosensors for detection of selected adipocytokines – potential biomarkers of diabetes.
Area: biosensors in medicine analytics; monitoring adipocytes for obesity predyction; sensitive analysis in biological matrix
Activity: cyclic voltammetry, square wave voltammetry, electrochemical impedance, UV-vis spectroscopy, surface plasmon resonance.

Main tasks: Correlation between selected environmental factors and the quality of raw meat obtained from deer
Area: Quality of venison, Parameters of venison related to food safety
Nutritional value of venison
Activity: Real time PCR, Immunotechniques: ELISA, western blotting, Microscopic techniques, In vitro cultures

Main tasks: In silico modeling antigenic peptides in food proteins after digestion.
Area: food proteins, digestion, allergens, meta-analysis,
Activity: Proteins data basis searching, Epitopes modeling, n silico peptides characterization, Protein digestion and product characterization

Main tasks: Organization of educational and communication activities addressed to SMEs, start-ups, students and consumers at large;
Area: Ongoing support to researchers in the development, implementation and reporting of EIT Food – funded projects;
Activity: Facilitation of networking activities between researchers and entrepreneurs.

Intern will take part in the following tasks, always related to EIT Food projects:
– Working on management tasks of ongoing projects.
– Participation in follow-up meetings.
– Preparation of reports.
– Management of financial issues regarding projects.
– Collaboration in projects dissemination (from the communication perspective).
– Preparation of new proposals for next call (meeting with potential partners, definition of the role inside proposals, definition of tasks, deliverables and workplan).
Intern will learn the EIT Food ecosystem, how EIT Food works internally and how companies interact with it. Intern will also gain a global vision of projects related to agri-food sector, from the coordination and management perspective.

RIS Talents
mode: on-line

Intern will take part in the following tasks, always related to EIT Food projects:
● Working on ideation processes.
● Participation in technical meetings.
● Preparation of technical reports.
● Management of technical issues regarding projects.
● Collaboration in projects dissemination (from the innovation perspective).
● Preparation of new proposals for next call (meeting with potential partners, definition of tasks from the technical point of view).
● Application of his/her expertise on the field to the project.
● Working closely with Data Science team.
Intern will learn the EIT Food ecosystem, how EIT Food works internally and how companies interact with it. Intern will also gain a global vision of projects related to agri-food sector, from the technical and development perspective.

• Analysis and summarizing of the data about European Funds
• Researching and creating reports about innovations in agri-food sector
• Supporting in planning and organizing events for children, students and general public
• Finding new partners for international projects e.g. start-ups, universities, research organizations

• Applied Microbiology R&D addressing industrial challenges
• Genomic & metagenomic analysis of bacteria/yeast used in food/feed/supplement/PGPR and their application
• Development & validation of new services
• Business development (a detailed project will be designed according with candidate skills)

RIS Talents
mode: hybrid

● Applied Microbiology R&D addressing industrial challenges
● Genomic & metagenomic analysis of bacteria/yeast used in food/feed/supplement/PGPR and their application
● Development & validation of new services
● Business development (a detailed project will be designed according with candidate skills)

1) Product Design:
• Taking part in product development meetings
• Drawing and evaluating design concepts based on product requirements
• Taking concepts from sketch to CAD design
• Taking part in and help building physical testing procedures
• Creating BOMs and product cost analyses
• Establishing contact with suppliers to support realisation of design

2) Statistical management:
• Help create a statistically robust plan to pilot Mimica Touch in test sites with one of our food producer and/or retailer partners in order to measure the commercial & societal impacts, compared to control sites.
• Support the process of agreeing and/or modifying the pilot plan with the food producer
• With the team & food producer/retailer, agree pilot KPIs, success thresholds and what happens if success is achieved.
• Help to design and populate a critical path Gantt chart for all the lead-in, pilot & post-pilot activities, and agree this with other stakeholders.
• Liaise with project partners/stakeholders to monitor, progress chase and report against the Gantt chart milestones.
• Help manage the pilot process Lead /support the post pilot statistical analysis and results presentation.

3) Capital Raise Support
Supporting the team on all aspects of fundraising and ongoing investor requests.
• Assist with our capital raise plan including public relations, reports, marketing materials & identifying target institutions with a good match to the organization
• Update our investor platform prior to Series A fundraising
• Assist with the entire lifecycle of our Series A crowdfunding
• Build strong relationships with the institutional investment community
• Build relationships with fund managers
• Lead new investors through onboarding and preparing necessary documents
• Assisting with preparation of board meeting materials
• Budgeting, forecasting and planning

4) Marketing
• Creative brainstorming of content ideas that will help tell the Mimica story
• Researching for and planning content that is relevant for our followers across our 4 social media channels
• Creating visual content to accompany text using canva.com or the Adobe suite.
• Trimming our video content into shareable soundbites and adding subtitles
• Scheduling posts using Hootsuite
• Tracking analytics to inform how to make better performing content in future Engaging with our followers and responding to comments and questions
• Posting updates on the Mimica website
• Keeping our press pack for journalists up to date
• Assisting with writing content for our newsletters for potential customers and investors

RIS Talents
mode: hybrid

1) Product Design:
• Taking part in product development meetings
• Drawing and evaluating design concepts based on product requirements
• Taking concepts from sketch to CAD design
• Taking part in and help building physical testing procedures
• Creating BOMs and product cost analyses
• Establishing contact with suppliers to support realisation of design

2) Statistical management:
• Help create a statistically robust plan to pilot Mimica Touch in test sites with one of our food producer and/or retailer partners in order to measure the commercial & societal impacts, compared to control sites.
• Support the process of agreeing and/or modifying the pilot plan with the food producer
• With the team & food producer/retailer, agree pilot KPIs, success thresholds and what happens if success is achieved.
• Help to design and populate a critical path Gantt chart for all the lead-in, pilot & post-pilot activities, and agree this with other stakeholders.
• Liaise with project partners/stakeholders to monitor, progress chase and report against the Gantt chart milestones.
• Help manage the pilot process Lead /support the post pilot statistical analysis and results presentation.

3) Capital Raise Support
Supporting the team on all aspects of fundraising and ongoing investor requests.
• Assist with our capital raise plan including public relations, reports, marketing materials & identifying target institutions with a good match to the organization
• Update our investor platform prior to Series A fundraising
• Assist with the entire lifecycle of our Series A crowdfunding
• Build strong relationships with the institutional investment community
• Build relationships with fund managers
• Lead new investors through onboarding and preparing necessary documents
• Assisting with preparation of board meeting materials
• Budgeting, forecasting and planning

4) Marketing
• Creative brainstorming of content ideas that will help tell the Mimica story
• Researching for and planning content that is relevant for our followers across our 4 social media channels
• Creating visual content to accompany text using canva.com or the Adobe suite.
• Trimming our video content into shareable soundbites and adding subtitles
• Scheduling posts using Hootsuite
• Tracking analytics to inform how to make better performing content in future Engaging with our followers and responding to comments and questions
• Posting updates on the Mimica website
• Keeping our press pack for journalists up to date
• Assisting with writing content for our newsletters for potential customers and investors

1. Getting acquainted with company’s activities and technology offered by NapiFeryn BioTech
2. Getting acquainted with Good Laboratory Practice and Good Manufacturing Practice (GLP and GMP)
3. Participation in the process of obtaining final product (plant proteins)
4. Participation in the preparation of food formulations
5. Conducting physicochemical and functional analyzes of the samples (from the production batch)
6. Co-creation of research documentation, including calculations and results archiving

Bioreactor testing and characterization
• Testing of new materials to reduce the environmental impact of the OSPIN bioreactors/technology
• Improvement of the design of the OSPIN bioreactor control system user interface
• Marketing material for OSPIN solutions in the field of cultivated meat and cell therapy

RIS Talents
mode: on-site

• Produce scientific data using OSPIN bioreactors (example: compare cell growth of a specific cell line in the OSPIN bioreactor to manual control in incubator)
• Exploration of new applications for OSPIN bioreactors (test of new scaffolds, cell lines, etc.) and data generation (for papers, proof-of-concepts, etc.)
• Test of innovative tissue chambers where the tissue is mechanically and electrically stimulated, scientific data generation
• New sensors characterization in combination with OSPIN bioreactors in real bioprocesses (generation of scientific data)

● Market research
● Internet research on potential target companies
● Financial analysis on potential target companies
● Update databases relating to flow of potential target companies

Working with lab work, literature and formulation, analysis, background in Marketing and Communications (Master level) and have some kind of knowledge of creative design programs (Adobe InDesign, any other program is a plus)

RISTalents
mode: on-site/hybrid

Predominantly desk work on: nutrition, literature, consumer insights, market data

• Synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials
• The use of the nanomaterials for surface-enhanced Raman scattering spectroscopy (SERS) for detection of food contaminants

• Understanding agriculture-linked opportunities arising from the booming satellite monitoring sector
• Contribute to development of methods and tools
• Support technology uptake across Europe

RIS Talents
mode: on-site

● Understanding agriculture-linked opportunities arising from the booming satellite monitoring sector,
● Contribute to development of methods and tools
● Support technology uptake across Europe

● Research the use of mobile phones for scanning QR codes
● Survey creation and performance for the above
● Identify companies using QR code based product digitalization and determine quantification of the market in terms of products using QR codes, cost per product for implementation, benefit assessment on a per company and per product basis
● Report writing sharing study findings and predictions based on discovery

RISTalents
mode: on-line

Research the use of mobile phones for scanning QR codes
● Develop hypotheses around user and company sentiment for QR codes on consumer products i.e. “We know scan rates of QR codes are higher than ever globally, yet we don’t have recent data to quantify that increase in scan rates and no idea of rate changes pegged to different industry verticals. What can we assume and what can we learn?”
● Identify underserved use cases and markets, including specific company opportunities e.g. critical services like hospitals or PPE for QR code usage
● Survey creation, performance, and reporting
● Report writing and sharing study findings and predictions based on discovery
● Identify companies using QR code based product digitalization and determine quantification of the market in terms of products using QR codes, cost per product for implementation, benefit assessment on a per company and per product basis

• Supporting the development of software for optimal growth of plants in indoor farms
• Preparing and evaluating trials with this software in the lab

● Food structure and safety, in vitro, ex vivo
● Novel formulations
● Consumer Trust

RIS Talents
mode: on-site

● Food structure and safety, in vitro, ex vivo
● Novel formulations
● Consumer Trust

I would be interested to offer placements via the scheme, subject to approval from the Head of School, in the following areas (not sure which one yet it depends on the timing):
• improvement of the nutritional quality of animal products via husbandry, animal diet and crossbreeding practices
• development of solutions for the reduction of livestock greenhouse gas emissions
• prediction modelling for livestock greenhouse gas emissions and feed nutritive value
• improvement of nutrient and energy use efficiency in ruminants
• achievement of the net zero carbon targets; unravel the role of rumen microbiome in ruminant metabolism and product quality
• applications of metabolomics on animal and food science
• assessment of the effect of animal products and plant-based alternatives’ consumption on human nutrition

• Embedded engineer – SNTech new product development
• Electronic engineer – SNTech new product development
• Software engineer – SNTech new product development
• Mechanical engineer – SNTech new product development
• A marine biologist with good statistics background – Trial data analysis
• Packaging/Graphic/Web design – General marketing
• E-commerce (business modelling and website development) – New route to market development (super-secret R&D project)

RIS Talents
mode: on-site/on-line/hybrid

• Embedded engineer – SNTech new product development
• Electronic engineer – SNTech new product development
• Software engineer – SNTech new product development
• Mechanical engineer – SNTech new product development
• A marine biologist with good statistics background – Trial data analysis
• Packaging/Graphic/Web design – General marketing
• E-commerce (business modelling and website development) – New route to market development (super-secret R&D project)

Food oral processing: consumer acceptance criteria for meat and analogues, compare via an online survey, addressing oral processing, sensory, mechanical and colour; build a quality model and connect consumer demands with measurable oral processing, mechanical, and sensory properties.

• Partake in our ongoing R&D activities in the domain of precision agriculture;
• Work with tasks related to data engineering and machine learning;
• Work with various types visual and spectral data (RGB, NIR, HIS, etc.);
• Contribute to the development of novel solutions for plant visual data analysis.
• Partake in our ongoing R&D project about greenhouse tomatoes;
• Contribute to our understanding how to recognize factors that influence plant wellbeing;
• Contribute to the development of solutions for greenhouse monitoring, automation and sustainability.

RIS Talents
mode: on-site/on-line/hybrid

• Partake in our ongoing R&D activities and contribute to the development of novel solutions for precision agriculture and/or food security;
• Work with tasks related to data engineering and machine learning;
• Develop or deepen knowledge in chemometrics, work with various types visual and spectral data (RGB, NIR, HIS, etc.);
• Work with satellite-based imaging and data analysis;
• Contribute to tasks related to data processing and interconnectivity.

Internship 1: Lipid analysis for personalised nutrition
The role and tasks of an Intern are:
1. Development and optimization of analytical techniques by Gas Chromatography for the analysis of lipids in human samples (blood)
2. Development and optimization of analytical techniques by Gas Chromatography for the analysis of lipids in biological samples in animal models (C-elegans and Zebrafish)

Internship 2: Bacteriophages for the biocontrol of foodborne pathogens
The role and tasks of an Intern are:
1. Isolation of bacteriophages from food and environmental  samples.
2. Characterization of technological properties of isolated   bacteriophages: Resistance to chloroform, stability at different storage conditions, efficacy and specificity against target pathogen.Internship 3: Development of new rapid methods for the detection of chemical contaminants in foodstuff by means of enzymatic assays and operating procedures that can be implemented in the food industries’ facilities

Internship 3: Development of new rapid methods for the detection of chemical contaminants in foodstuff by means of enzymatic assays and operating procedures that can be implemented in the food industries’ facilities
1. Search for new methodologies to monitor enzyme activity in a rapid, easy, and sensitive way.
2. Study of the ability of certain chemical contaminants (PCBs and dioxins, marine toxins) to inhibit the activity of a group of enzymes.
3. Study of the metabolization of chemical contaminants by a group of enzymes.
4. Application of enzymatic assays to real food samples

PhD student in the area of nutrition or food technology, consumer research or public health to be included in one of NUTRIS’ research projects