Scientific evenings
University of Nova Gorica invites to the lecture: "From targeted analysis to untargeted metabolomics and its application biological sciences" by Doc. Dr. Urška Vrhovšek (Fondazione Edmund Mach, Research and Innovation Centre, Food Quality and Nutrition Department, Via E.Mach 1, 38010 S.Michele all'Adige, Italy).
Lecture will take place on Thursday, 18 April 2013 at 7 p.m. at the Lanthieri mansion in Vipava.
Lecture will be in English.
Metabolomics is applied to a variety of biological fields from medical science to agriculture. Plants produce a wide diversity of compounds used for foods, medicines, flavours and industrial materials.
Most of human beneficial properties of plants, be they foods, medical resources, or industrial raw materials, are described to plant metabolites. The quality of crop plants is therefore a direct function of their metabolites content and metabolomics promises to uncover in the next years the richness of the plants metabolite diversity. In the lecture the new mass spectrometry based metabolomic platform developed at Edmund Mach Foundation will be presented together with some applications in different biological sciences.
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Andreja Leban
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