PhD scholarship in assessment of health impact of microbial foods in vivo - BRIGHT

Official occupation: ph.d., naturvidenskab og teknik. Employment conditions: Almindelige vilkår. Employer CVR: 30060946.

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Public Sector, Education & Impact (occupation evidence). Are you fascinated by how the food we eat shapes our microbiome and metabolic health? Excited by the prospect of designing pre-clinical studies that will help generate the evidence to justify the first human clinical trials for a novel food category? Eager to work in a cutting-edge, interdisciplinary research environment tackling major food-system challenges?

Then join us as our new PhD Student in Animal Nutrition and Host-Microbe Metabolism! This position is a part of BRIGHT's mission- oriented Microbial Food research programme (“referred to as Mission 2”), which aims to build an AI-powered framework for the rational design of microbial foods that meet four targets: consumer acceptance, health, sustainability and scalability.

The first phase focuses on two fungal chassis, Aspergillus and Yarrowia, characterizing more than 500 prototypes through multi-omics, sensory analysis, life-cycle assessment and safety testing. Predictive models for flavor, texture, nutrition and process scale-up are trained iteratively through active learning1 …