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KTH FOOD SciLifeLab luncheon

Welcome to a lunch seminar with KTH FOOD at SciLifeLab! As a collaborative effort among Swedish universities, Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab) is a national research infrastructure devoted to advancing the field of life science. SciLifeLab inspires innovation, offering a unique technologies and expertise that extend across the spectrum of life sciences.

Time: Tue 2024-02-20 12.00 - 12.45

Location: Alfa 2 (Andromeda & Milky Way) SciLifeLab, Tomtebodavägen 23A, 171 65 Solna

Language: English

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Vegetarian lunch will be served from 11:45. Welcome!

This lunch seminar will introduce KTH FOOD, a centre for sustainable and healthy food systems. Join us for a captivating exploration at SciLifeLab, with talks on the future of food ingredients through synthetic biology, the impact of high-fat diets on health, and the spatial host-microbiome interactions in relation to food.

Agenda: 

12:00 Welcome and intro to KTH FOOD - Francisco Vilaplana and Stefania Giacomello

12:05 Unlocking the fibre gap through carbohydrate biotechnology - Francisco Vilaplana 

12:15 Future food ingredients grown using synthetic biology - Paul Hudson

12:25 How a high-fat diet impacts the colon transcriptome and microbiome - implications for colorectal cancer - Cecilia Williams

12:35 Spatial host-microbiome interactions and food - Stefania Giacomello

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