Max Rubner-Institut (previous Federal Research Centre for Nutrition and Food), Germany

• protective and probiotic cultures
  • Protective and probiotic cultures
  • Development of novel multifunctional starter cultures
  • Testing for probiotic activity
  • Use of bacteriocin producing strains in food fermentations
  • Model food fermentations and pathogen challenge studies
  • Cell culture and immunologic interactions
  • Safety investigations, especially detection and characterisation of antibiotic resistances
• Detection methods
• Detection and quantification of foodborne pathogens including biochemical and molecular methods (e.g., PCR, qRT-PCR)
• Investigations into food ecology, biodiversity studies using fingerprinting methods and numerical (cluster) analysis (rep-PCR, ARDRA, RAPD, PFGE)
• Molecular identification techniques including 16S sequencing and sequence based phylogenetic analyses
• Molecular detection methods for mycotoxin producing fungi
• Expression systems (Real Time PCR, microarray) for mycotoxin producing fungi
• Molecular typing and characterization of ochratoxin A producing Penicillia

 

Contact details

Prof. Dr. Rolf Geisen

Max Rubner-Institut

Bundesforschungsinstitut für Ernährung und Lebensmittel

Molekulare Lebensmittelmykologie

Standort Karlsruhe

Haid-und-Neu-Str. 9

76131 Karlsruhe

Germany

Telephone: 0049 721 6625 450

Telefax: 0049 721 6625 453

Email:

URL: www.mri.bund.de

 

Dr. Charles Franz

Telephone: 0049 721 6625 225

Telefax: 0049 721 6625 453

Email:

URL: www.mri.bund.de