Milan secondary unit
Head of Unit: Milena Brasca
The unit is located within the Department of Food, Environmental and Nutritional Sciences at the University of Milan.
Address: Via Celoria 2, 20133 Milano
E-mail: milena.brasca@cnr.it
Phone 025031665
Staff Members: 8
In addition to permanent staff, the unit also includes PhD students, research fellows, grant holders, and students.
Research Areas
- Quality, safety, and shelf life of agri-food products
- Innovative technologies for food processing
- Pro-technological and health-promoting microorganisms
- Microbial biodiversity and molecular markers
- Mass spectrometry for lipidomics and volatilome analysis
- Innovative packaging (active, smart, sustainable)
Laboratories and Equipment
- Laboratories for microbiology, molecular biology, and chemical analysis
- Fermentation platform for functional cultures and scale-up
- MALDI-TOF for microbial identification and antibiotic resistance screening
- FID gas chromatographs and GC-MS for lipid and volatile compound analysis
- Collection of 3,000 characterized lactic acid bacteria strains
