Why can the meals we eat have different effects from person to person? #NUTRIOME international network funded under Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions will find the answers by educating future researchers in personalized nutrition. WELCOME2 scientific group in nutrigenomics will commit to this impactful initiative.
“The #NUTRIOME network has put together an exclusive programme in order to educate 10 motivated doctoral research fellows. The Doctoral research fellows will be trained in data-driven research within the field of personalised nutrition by learning to manage and interpret large, complex data sets from dietary interventions” – we read in the interview with Prof. Stine Marie Ulven, coordinator of #NUTRIOME network from the University of Oslo.
Institute of Animal Reproduction and Food Research PAS is one of the partners in this powerful network, and is represented by Prof. Carsten Carlberg, ERA Chair in the WELCOME2 project #welcome2nutrigenomics.
#NUTRIOME fits perfectly to the strategy of the WELCOME2 project, since it is addresses interindividual differences in the response to diet on many omics level. Prof. Carlberg will lead one of the six work packages of the project and will be responsible for the coordination of epigenome and transcriptome data collected during the multicenter dietary intervention study planned in #NUTRIOME. The project will finance the position of one international PhD student within the WELCOME2 team, who will have the main task to analyze, integrate and model epigenome-wide data of NUTRIOME. This will also allow correlations to comparable projects of the WELCOME2 team and interconnect them better. “A win-win situation for both EU-funded projects!”
The Nutriome network includes nine academic institutions and six industrial partners from eight different European countries. Each of the ten doctoral research fellows admitted to the network will receive a team of three supervisors from universities and industry. The research school’s programme is divided into two main sections, a training phase and a project phase.
Firstly, the doctoral research fellows will acquire interdisciplinary skills and knowledge in sharing, using and integrating large, complex data sets. The, they will be responsible for coordinating, implementing and analysing data in a new personalised meal study. They will learn to develop algorithms that can be used to tailor the dietary advice to be included in the study. Finally, the research fellows must undergo a 3-month period of supervised professional training at an industry partner – says Prof. Ulven
More information about Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska-Curie #NUTRIOME network can be read here.
