International cooperation, education and training

Through the collaboration with the European Network EuroFir  and within the framework of several international projects, our staff workers had the opportunity to receive training and internship at the best European universities.

Within the cooperation with "Scientific Research and Educational Center of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology mucous membranes' network EuroFir, V. Bati attended the training course of the Summer School Monitoring of Diet for Full Impact Assessment" held at the University of TUBITAK, within the frameworks of the FP 7 “TDS – exposure” project from 22 to 27 June, 2014 in Istanbul, Turkey.

This course provided the participants with the opportunity to get acquainted the full diet research, ensuring food safety and identification of potential risks to human health, as well as designing and planning of nutrition research, sample preparation and analysis, quality control in all aspects of theoretical and practical training. Learned the basic skills of using the LanguaL and EFSA Foodex software for the description of the tested foods and their components.

V. Bati attended 12th International Postgraduate Course on the Production and Use of Food Composition Data in Nutrition, held from 13 to 25 October 2013 in Wageningen, the Netherlands.

Creating a food database is a pressing and important issue for Ukraine. In the food industry, access to food database opens up new opportunities for the selection of food components for the analysis of available data, creating new recipes that will have a positive effect on production of foods. Also, it is very important for Ukrainian consumers to have access to information about the quality and composition of foods. Especially important is the content of allergens, sugar, GMOs, information about shelf life of products, etc. To ensure consumer access to such information scientists have to make a huge effort on creation of database of food in Ukraine. Our Center was the first to initiate the Food Database Creation in Ukraine.

Thanks to a COST BacFoodNet grant, Bati took a training course on Research Methods of biofilms in Foods, held in Denmark, Copenhagen at the Technical University on 23-30 August 2013. Received a diploma.

This course was very instrumental for our team, having trained us how to apply the new knowledge in further research. We can learn the specifics of the formation of microbial colonies and forming biofilms on the surfaces of edible plants. In particular, we will be able to explore the hands-on formation of biofilms by microorganisms that have been isolated within the BaSeFood project, and apply confocal and fluorescence microscopy, and the analytical method of FISH (fluorescent in-situ hybridization).

Participated in CAPINFOOD workshops on 25-29 August 2014, in Budapest, Hungary.

State-of-the art equipment, highly qualified staff, and cooperation with Cassovia Life Sciences (Slovak association of research institutes) unable us to perform top-level scientific work, which is reflected in our candidate and doctoral theses in biological sciences.

The titles of our theses:

1. Bati V. "Microorganisms in original enzyme food of plant origin in the production of modern functional foods" - 03.00.07. – microbiology, 3 year.

2. Sarvash O. "New biological antimicrobial compounds for the prevention of formation of biofilms, and their use food and medical industry" - 03.00.07. – microbiology, 2 year.

3. Meleshko T. "Indigenous microbiota in humans, its structural components and metabolites as potential epigenetic modifiers," specialty 03.00.07. - microbiology - 1 year.

4. Levchuk O., "Innovative nanofitomicrobial materials and products and their implementation in medical and food industry, mechanisms of action and technological aspects of practical use" - Doct. of biol. sciences. Defense slated for 2016 - 2017.

5. Markush N. "Modern methodological approaches to clinical trials of the effectiveness of new biological agents (microbial and plant origin)," cand. of med. sciences. - Defense slated for 2017.

Theses defended in 2014:

1. Petrov V. "Key microorganisms as potential indicators and proponents of non-communicable human diseases, associated with metabolic disorders" - cand. of med. sciences, in Kyiv.

Our research papers were presented:

1. Coordination meeting of the leaders of the project BaSeFood (Coordination and Project Management Board meeting), 5th meeting of the BaSeFood consortium (BaseFood Sonsortium meeting). - 21 - February 24, 2012. - Athens, Greece;

2. The conference of the European Agency for research coordination EUREKA "Food for Future - Future of Food." - 2-3 April 2012. - Budapest, Hungary;

3. Implementation of the scientific results of the project BaSeFood - the tasks of 4 and 5 working packages. Participation in the second Symposium on Food Science (2nd Kiel Food Science Symposium). - 20 - 24 May, 2012. – Bonn and Kiel, Germany;

4. Participation in the 11th meeting of National Technology Platform "Food for Life" (11th meeting of National Technology Platforms "Food for Life" (NTPs)) and the visit to Medical University. Istanbul (EDITEPE). - 8 -10 June 2012. - Istanbul, Turkey;

5. International Scientific Conference "Probiotics and prebiotics." - 11-15 June 2012. - Kosice, Slovak Republic;

6. International scientific conference "Bacteriophages and probiotics - alternative to antibiotics." - 1-4 July, 2012. - Tbilisi, Georgia;

7. Participation in the final working session of the board members of the project BaSeFood and Traditional Food International (TFI-2012). - 2-5 October 2012. - Cesena, Italy;

8. International Conference International Conference "Microbiology and Immunology - Prospects of development in the XXI Century, 10 - 11 April, 2014. - Kyiv, Ukraine

9. Capinfood final Conference, 17 June 2014, Ljubljana, Slovenia;

10. The third SEE Forum, 18 June 2014, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

11. Innovation in the food industry and participation in international projects (CAPINFOOD). - July 7, 2014. – Uzhhorod, Ukraine;

12. The national Conference of the CAPINFOOD project in Ukraine. - August 7, 2014. – Uzhhorod, Ukraine;

13. 2014 ENGIHR Conference: The Gut Microbiota Throughout Life. 24th-26th September, 2014. -  Karlsruhe, Germany;

14. PROMISE and BacFoodNet joint conference “Persistent lifestyles of food-borne pathogens and its consequence”. - 17 – 19 November 2014. - Vienna, Austria.