Bachir Balech
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Bachir
Balech
Institute of Biomembranes, Bioenergetics and Molecular Biotechnologies, CNR Research Nutrheff Thematic Microbial technology, Biomolecular technologies (enzymatic, biochemical, molecular biology)
Research Interest and expertise in the field of nutraceuticals
and functional food
Keywords: DNA barcoding Metagenomics Bioinformatics Genetic traceability Genomics High Throughput Sequencing
Nutraceuticals and foods of interest- Advanced bioinformatic studies in microbiome research related to observational and intervention of food intake - Taxonomic classification, molecular characterization, genetic traceability, and phylogeny inference of organisms including plants and their related pathogens and environmental biodiversity through DNA barcoding and metabarcoding approaches - Setting up of advanced computational ecosystem able to cope with high throughput sequencing data related to genomics and metagenomics studies - Medicinal plants - Medicinal mushrooms Fields of application - Basic research: discovery and molecular characterization of novel natural molecules potentially beneficial to human health - Applied research: application of observational and intervention studies setup - Industry: release of novel integral or activated food supplement Facilities and equipments Possibility of using advanced computational infrastructure under a funding schema. |