University Programs

Cardiff School of Biosciences Cardiff, CF14 9HS United Kingdom Contact Person: Professor J.L. Harwood Contact Information: e-mail: [email protected]; phone: +44 29 2087 4108; fax: +44 29-2087 4116; website Research Topics: Metabolism and function of fatty acids and acyl lipids including; control mechanisms for lipid accumulation in oil crops; changes in plant lipid metabolism brought about by herbicides or stress, including the Greenhouse Effect; membrane lipids and temperature adaptation; respiratory disease and pulmonary surfactant; polyunsaturated fatty acids and inflammatory disease (endotoxic shock, arthritis, Alzheimer's).

Ghent University Faculty of and Social Sciences; Division of Nutrition Ghent University Hospital Ghent, Belgium Contact Person: Dr. A. Christophe Contact Information: e-mail: [email protected]; phone: +32 9 240 2262; fax: +32 9 240 3897 Research Topics: Fatty acid and antioxidant status of different groups and influencing it by dietary intervention.

Ghent University Food Technology and Engineering Gent 9000 Belgium Contact Person: Kon Dewettinck Contact Information: e-mail: [email protected]; phone: +32 9 2646163; fax: +32 9 2646218 Research topics: fat crystallization; bakery products; dairy (phospholipids); powders

Institute of Biochemistry Graz, Styria A-8010 Austria Contact Person: Prof. Dr. Albin Hermetter Contact Information: e-mail: [email protected]; phone: +43 316 873 6457; fax: +43 316 873 6952; website: http://www.biochemistry.tugraz.at Research Topics: Lipid oxidation, antioxidants, oxidized phospholipids, signal transduction in vascular smooth muscle cells, atherosclerosis; Lipolytic enzymes, lipases, esterases, sphingomyelinases, functional proteomics of lipid modifying enzymes, protein chip technology, microarrays Fluorescence spectroscopy and microscopy, fluorescent lipids, fluorescent enzyme inhibitors, fluorescence labeling of proteins Fluorescence assays for lipid and protein oxidation, antioxidant screening, and lipolytic enzymes (activity, mol active enzyme)

Greifswald University Institute of & Biochemistry Department of Technical Chemistry & Biotechnology Greifswald 17487 Germany Contact Person: Dr. Uwe T. Bornscheuer Contact Information: e-mail: [email protected]; phone: +49 3834 86 4367; fax: +49 3834 86 4346; website: www.chemie.uni-greifswald.de/~biotech/ Research Topics: Biocatalysis using e.g.. lipases and phopholipase; screening, cloning expression of enzymes; optimization by rational protein design/directed evolution; application in biocatalytic reactions, e.g. synthesis of phospholipids, structured triglycerides.

Iowa State University Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition Ames, Iowa 50011-1061 USA Contact Person: Brenda Emery Contact Information: e-mail: [email protected]; phone: +1 515 294 3011; fax: +1 515 294 8181; website: www.fcs.iastate.edu/fshn Research Topics: Grain Processing, Oil Chemistry and Processing, Protein Separation, Functionality and Application

Iowa State University Grain Quality Laboratory Ames, Iowa 50011 USA Contact Person: Dr. Charles R. Hurburgh, Jr. Contact Information: e-mail: [email protected]; phone: +1 515 294 8629; fax: +1 515 294 6383; website: www.iowagrain.org; www.grainlab.org Research Topics: Near Infrared spectrosopy; Chemometrics and calibration of multivariate sensors; Quality management systems; Food security and traceability; Soybean quality improvement; See www.iowagrain.org for current openings.

Kansas State University Division of ; Kansas Lipidomics Research Center; KSU Lipidomics/Lipid Signaling Group Manhattan, Kansas 66506 USA Contact Person: Dr. David Rintoul Contact Information: e-mail: [email protected]; phone: +1 785 532 0104; website: www.ksu.edu/biology; www.ksu.edu/lipid/lipidomics; www.ksu.edu/lipid/ Research Topics: Lipid metabolism in hibernating marmots; lipid metabolism in migratory birds

Karolinska Institutet Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics Stockholm SE-17177 Sweden Contact Person: Mats Hamberg Contact Information: e-mail: [email protected]; phone: +46 8 52487640; website: www.mbb.ki.se/research/kemi_2/MH/mhintro1.htm Research Topics: Research carried out in our laboratory concerns various aspects of oxylipins, oxygenated fatty acid derivatives formed by mono- or dioxygenase-catalyzed oxygenation of fatty acids. Fatty acid hydroperoxides constitute an important group of oxylipins which are formed by action of lipoxygenases as well as recently discovered alpha-dioxygenases. Further metabolism of hydroperoxides results in the formation of biologically important compounds such as the leukotrienes in animals and jasmonates in plants. Our current work is focussed on studies of the biosynthesis and metabolism of oxylipins in higher plants as well on the development of new methods for synthesis and analysis of oxylipins. Recent publications: Hamberg, M., Sanz, A., Rodriguez, M.J., Calvo, A.P., and Castresana, C. (2003) Activation of the alpha-dioxygenase pathway during bacterial infection of tobacco leaves: Formation of oxylipins protecting against cell death. J. Biol. Chem. 278:51796-51805. Grechkin, A.N., Mukhtarova, L.S., and Hamberg, M. (2003) Detection of an enol intermediate in the hydroperoxide lyase chain cleavage reaction. FEBS Lett. 549:31-34.

London Metropolitan University Institute of Brain Chemistry and Human Nutrition London N7 8DB United Kingdom Contact Person: Professor Michael A. Crawford Contact Information: e-mail: [email protected]; phone: +44 020 7753 3165; fax: +44 020 7753 3164; website: www.unl.ac.uk/ibchn Research Topics: Membrane Protein/lipid and lipid/ lipid domains and their influence on signaling and gene expression; Membrane lipid distortion in the aetiology of chronic diseases such as diabetes, sickle cell anemia etc.; The role of arachidonic acid deficiency in impaired vascular development and fragility, viz. the complications of prematurity and haemorrhagic stroke; Maternal nutrition, prenatal programming and pregnancy outcome.

National University of Malaysia Department of Chemical Science & Food Technology Bangi, Selangor 43600 Malaysia Contact Person: Sri Nurestri Hj Abdul Malek, Assoc. Prof. Datin Dr. Contact Information: e-mail: [email protected]; phone: +6 03 8921 5446; fax: +6 03 8921 5410; website: http://pkukmweb.ukm.m/%7Ekimia Research Topics: Studies on plants that have potential medicinal properties; Investigations into the volatile constituents of plants and flowers that may be utilized in the flavor and fragrance industries; Investigations into certain biological activities of Melastoma malabathricum; Studies on Trema orientalis; Investigations into the components of several wild species of ginger; Isolation and synthesis of several derivatives of milletenone from Millettia hemsleyana.

North Dakota State University Department of Cereal and Food Sciences Fargo, North Dakota 58105 USA Contact Person: Charlene Kuss Contact Information: e-mail: [email protected]; phone: +1 701 231 7712; fax: +1 701 231 6359; website: http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/cereal-science/ Research Topics: Hard Red Spring Wheat - Dough Rheology and Baking; Durum Wheat - Pasta Processing; Carbohydrates; Proteins; Alternative Crops; Food Processing; Lipids

Oklahoma State University Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering/Food Science Stillwater, Oklahoma 74078 USA Contact Person: Dr. Nurhan Dunford Contact Information:e-mail: [email protected]; phone: +1 405 744 7062; fax: +1 405 744 6313; website: Biosystems Engineering Department: http://biosystems.okstate.edu/faculty/dunford_index.html Bioenergy Center: http://bioenergycenter.okstate.edu/faculty/Dunford Robert M. Kerr Food and Agricultural Products Center: http://www.fapc.okstate.edu/services/oil.html Research Topics: Oil and Oilseed processing, functional foods and nutraceuticals, specialty oils, supercritical fluid technology, biocatalysis, green processing, and value-added bioprocessing, waste utilization.

Oregon State University Linus Pauling Institute Corvallis, Oregon, 97331 USA Contact Name: Balz Frei, Ph.D. Contact Information: e-mail: [email protected]; phone: +1 541 737 5075; fax: +1 541 737 5077; website: http://lpi.oregonstate.edu Research Topics: Our mission is to determine the function and role of micronutrients (vitamins, minerals, and others) and phytochemicals (chemicals from plants) in promoting optimum health and preventing and treating disease; to determine the role of oxidative and nitrative stress and antioxidants in human health and disease; and to advance knowledge in areas that were of interest to Linus Pauling through research and educational activities. The Institute functions from the basic premise that an optimum diet is the key to optimum health. Major areas of research in the Institute encompass heart disease, cancer, aging, neurodegenerative diseases and disease caused by exposure to toxins. Specific laboratories address antioxidants and vascular biology; vitamin E metabolism and biological activity; colon cancer and cancer chemoprevention by phytochemicals; the role of nitric oxide and oxidative tress in neurodegenerative diseases, such as ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease); and the role of oxidative stress and mitochondrial dysfunction in the aging process. The Linus Pauling Institute was established at Oregon State University in August 1996 under an agreement reached between OSU and its antecedent organization, the Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine (located in California from 1973 to 1996).

Penn State University Department of Food Science University Park, Pennsylvania 16802 USA Contact Person: Juanita Wolfe Contact Information: e-mail: [email protected]; phone: +1 814 863 8667; fax: +1 814 863 6132; website: www.foodscience.psu.edu/index.html Research Topics: Research on the physical and chemical properties of food lipids including emulsion science, phase transitions, flavor chemistry, antioxidant stratergies. Strong focus on dairy foods and confectionary products.

RMIT University Department of Applied Sciences Melbourne, Victoria 3001 Australia Contact Person: Prof. A.J. Sinclair Contact Information: e-mail: [email protected]; phone: +61 399252899; fax: +61 399255241; website: www.rmit.edu.au Research Topics: Applied Chemistry, Food Chemistry, Food Microbiology, Biotechnology, Applied Physics, Nutrition, Exercise Physiology

Scottish Agricultural College Crop and Soil Research Group Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire AB21 9YA Scotland, UK Contact Person: Dr. Elaine Booth Contact Information: [email protected]; phone: +01224 711000; fax: +01224 711293; website: www.sac.ac.uk Research Topics: Agronomy of oilseed rape and evaluation of specialist oil types. Adaptation of novel specialist oil crops for production in Northern European conditions. Evaluation of the ecological and agricultural impacts of introduction of GM oilseed rape. Assessment of biodiesel as a potential renewable fuel type, including life cycle and energy balance analysis. Development of a system to utilise the biofumigation potential of Brassicas to control pathogens.

Slovak University of Technology Department of Biochemical Technology, Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology Bratislava 812 37 Slovak Republic Contact Person : Assoc. Prof. Milan Certik, PhD. email : [email protected] ([email protected]), +421 59325491; +421 252967085, +421 252967085 Research Topics : Regulation and biotechnological production of polyunsaturated fatty acids, conjugated linolec acid and hydroxy-fatty acids. Utilization of agroindustrial materials for production of new bioproducts nutritionally improved with biologically active fatty acids by solid state fermentations. Utilization and biotransformation of vegetable oils to value-added lipids. Biochemistry of fatty acids and triacylglycerol synthesis in oleaginous microorganisms. Study of environmental stress impact (heavy metals, oxygen, salt, ethanol) on industrially important yeasts (heavy metal incorporation, exopolymer formation, membrane lipid composition, carotenoids synthesis, free radicals scavenging and antioxidant properties). Microbial production of carotenoid pigments. Biotechnological production of bioactive surfactants. Role of membrane lipids of bacteria utilizing pollutants. Genotype diversity of fatty acid profile of cereals and oil-seeds.

University of Alberta Agriculture, Food and Nutritional Science Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2P5 Canada Contact Person : Dr. S. S. Narine Contact Information: email: [email protected]; website: www.alup.ca Contact Phone : +1 780 492 9081 Contact Fax : +1 780 492 7174 Research Topics : ALUP's research programs are uniquely structured to take commercial advantage of cutting- edge, fundamental research in lipid utilization. There are three main fundamental platforms, and within each fundamental platform, there are a number of applied objectives.

The three main fundamental platforms are:

 Fundamental understanding of the crystallization of lipid and modified lipid networks, which enables the modification of natural molecular ensembles and processing conditions to design crystal network structures  with specific physical properties in a stable thermodynamic state.  The development and perfection of chemical modification techniques to alter the chemical functionality of lipids, so as to produce high value chemicals and functional monomers.  A fundamental understanding of the inter-relationships between chemical functionality of monomers, processing conditions, derived structural hierarchies, and resultant physical functionality of polymer networks  created from lipid-derived monomers. Starting with lipids from oilseeds and their refining waste streams, we study the relationships between processing conditions, derived structural hierarchies and resultant physical functionality of value-added networks and chemicals leading to the production of value-added products.

University of Amsterdam Institute for Molecular Chemistry Amsterdam, Nieuwe Achtergrachr 166, 1018 WV The Contact Person: J.C. Mol Contact Information: e-mail: [email protected]; phone: +31 20 5256490; fax: +31 20 5256456 Research Topics: Development of catalysts for the metathesis of oleochemicals.

University of Arkansas Department of Food Science 2650 N Young Ave.,University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72704 Contact Person: Dr. Andrew Proctor Contact Information: e-mail: [email protected]; phone: 479 575-29806

University of California, San Diego Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry School of Medicine & Revelle College La Jolla, California 92093-0601 USA Contact Person: Professor Edward A Dennis Contact Information: [email protected]; phone: +1 858 534 3055; fax: +1 858 534 7390; website: http://cobra.ucsd.edu

University of Georgia Department of Food Science and Technology Athens, Georgia 30602-7610 USA Contact Person: Prof. Casimir C. Akoh Contact Information: e-mail:[email protected]; phone: +1 706 542 1067; fax: +1 706 542 1050; website: www.uga.edu/fst Research Topics: Lipid Biotechnology: Enzymatic modification of lipids, synthesis and applications of structured lipids; Lipid Chemistry: fat substitutes and reduced calorie lipids, physical and chemical properties of lipids, flavor and fragrances, lipid oxidation; Nutraceutical and Functional Foods: phytochemical analysis and nutraceuticals.

University of Guelph Department of Plant Agriculture Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1 Canada Contact Person: Dr. Istvan Rajcan Contact Information: e-mail: [email protected]; phone: +1 519 824 4120, ext. 53564; fax: +1 519 763 8933; website: www.plant.uoguelph.ca Research Topics: Soybean breeding and genetics for improvement of seed compositional traits. Fatty acid profile modifications by use of mutation; isoflavone levels; protein and oil content; tocopherolaccumulation; genetic mapping of alleles and genes contributing to altered seed composition; development of soybean varieties for niche markets.

University of Lethbridge Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Lethbridge, Alberta T1K 3M4 Canada Contact Person: Dr. Randall J. Weselake Contact Information: e-mail: [email protected]; phone: +1 403 329 2303; fax: +1 403 329 2057; website: http://people.uleth.ca/~weselake/ Research Topics: Our major research efforts are in the enzymology and molecular biology of lipid biosynthesis in microspore-derived cultures of oilseed rape and bovine tissues. Students working in my laboratory can obtain experience in one or more of the following areas: protein purification and characterization, immunochemistry, recombinant DNA technology, lipid analysis and tissue culture.

University of Massachusetts, Amherst Amherst, Massachusetts 01003 USA Contact Person: Eric Decker Contact Information: e-mail: [email protected]; phone: +1 413 545 1026; fax: +1 413 545 1262; website: www.umass.edu/foodsci/ Research Topics: Natural antioxidants, bioactive lipids, lipid and protein oxidation in seafood, impact of physical properties of lipid systems on lipid and antioxidant chemistry, food colloids and emulsions, influence of the physical properties of lipids on nutritional bioavailability, fat crystallization, regulation of phenolics in plants

University of North Dakota Pharmacology, Physiology, and Therapeutics Department Grand Forks, North Dakota 58202-9037 USA Contact Person: Eric J. Murphy Contact Information: e-mail: [email protected]; phone: +1 701 777 3450; fax: +1 701 777 4490 Research Topics: n-3 Fatty acid metabolism in health and disease; Cardiovascular lipid mediated signaling in health and disease; Brain lipid mediated signaling in health and disease; Fatty acid transport and metabolism; Ether lipid metabolism; Metabolism of ALA vs. DHA in mammals; Brain lipid metabolism; Heart lipid metabolism

University of Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry Oldenburg D-26111 Germany Contact Person: Prof. Dr. Jürgen O. Metzger Contact Information: e-mail: [email protected]; phone: +49 4417983718; fax: +49 4417983618; website: www.chemie.uni-oldenburg.de/oc/metzger/ Research Topics: Environmentally Benign Syntheses of Sustainable Products: Oils and Fats as Renewable Resources for the Chemical Industry Environmentally benign syntheses are distinguished among others by the use of raw materials which show favourable life-cycle analysis data -- that are in particular renewable feedstocks - and the reduction of the use of organic solvents. During the last ten years we have been engaged in a comprehensive research project concerning the chemical use of vegetable oils. Fatty acids such as oleic acid, erucic acid and petroselinic acid are obtained with sufficient chemical purity from vegetable oils. These fatty compounds and the respective native oils are modified by modern synthetic methods especially by reactions at the C,C-double bond to give oleochemicals with possibly new and interesting properties. Many of the new oleochemicals have been tested in chemical industry. Subsequent treatment of the environmentally benign synthezised products has to be carried out by environmentally benign conditions too. We have been engaged e.g. in the development of raw materials based on native oils for the coating industry that can be used without organic solvents.

University of Stirling Institute of Aquaculture Stirling, Scotland, FK9 4LA United Kingdom Contact Person: Dr. Douglas R. Tocher Contact Information: e-mail: [email protected]; phone: +44 17 86467996; fax: +44 17 86472133 Research Topics: Biochemistry and molecular biology of lipid and fatty acid metabolism in fish. Including lipids and fatty acids in health and disease and immune function, molecular genetics of lipid and fatty acid metabolism and gene expression and regulation, PPARs in fish and alternative dietary oils in aquaculture and lipid soluble antioxidants and contaminants.

University of Tennessee Biosystems Engineering & Environmental Science Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-4531 USA Contact Person: Dr. Doug Hayes Contact Information: e-mail: [email protected]; phone: +1 865 974 7991; fax: +1 865 974 4514; website: http://bioengr.ag.utk.edu/dhayes/research.htm Research Topics: Processing of Agricultural Materials by Enzymes and Microorganisms, Lipid and Protein Purification, Synthesis and Application of Surfactants, Agricultural Biosensors.

University of Toronto Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry Toronto, Ontario M5S 3E5 Canada Contact Person: L.L. Diosady Contact Information: e-mail: [email protected]; phone: +1 416 978 4137; fax: +1 416 978 8605; website: www.chem-eng.utoronto.ca Research Topics: Micronutrient fortification; Edible oil processing; cis-selective hydrogenation; Protein isolates from oilseeds; Extrusion modeling and control; Nitrite-free meat curing; Membrane processes; Nutraceuticals from oilseeds