Program Overview

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Overview

Research Strategies

This programme focuses on applied aspects of advanced and emerging analytical technologies to address current issues in food safety, nutrition and food supply. It covers the entire food chain from farm to fork and places a strong emphasis on the link between improved food safety and nutrition and improved public health.

Research Strengths

Advanced and emerging technological and analytical platforms (biosensors, isotopic and omics)

Animal food and feed safety

Animal health and disease diagnostics

Antimicrobial resistance in the food chain

Global food security

Food and nutrition metabolomics

Food and nutrition quality measurements

Food chemistry

Food safety detection methodology

Food traceability and authenticity

Immunodiagnostics for food contaminant and toxin detection

Natural compounds and their health applications

Novel and functional foods

Therapeutic biomolecules

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Food Safety and Biotechnology Highlights

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Industry Links

The School has a wide range of strong, international links with governments, academia and industry.

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World Class Facilities

Research students will have access to laboratory space as required (in our state-of-the-art research laboratories) and where relevant, also a range of field study sites and equipment (e.g. remote sensing drone equipment). They also have access to local and campus-wide high performance computing facilities and the full strength of our world-class library. Many students also benefit from the strong collaboration network maintained by our academic staff, which could result in working in the laboratories of partner organisations in industry and government as well as in the University, under specific arrangements.

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Internationally Renowned Experts

Research at Institute for Global Food Security and the School of Biological Sciences was rated 1st in the UK in the latest Research Exercise Framework (REF) – an independent assessment of research quality, impact and environment at UK universities.

IGFS/Biological Sciences topped the national league table for Agriculture, Veterinary and Food Science, with 94% of research in those areas deemed “world-leading” or “internationally excellent”.

Additionally, the research environment at IGFS/SBS scored a phenomenal 100%.

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Student Experience

Students may gain excellent practical experience of advanced technology and bioanalytical techniques for food safety analysis and monitoring, such as:

GC, HPLC and UPLC separation platforms

ICP, IR, qToF and QqQ mass spectrometers

Microbiological research facilities

Antibody production and biomolecule binder development

Cell culture suite and bioanalytical assay detection systems

NMR, NIR and Raman spectrometers

Proteomic and metabolomic profiling tools

RT-PCR, transcriptomic profiling, Next-generation sequencing

Multiplex biosensor platforms and LFD development

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