PhD student NUTRIMIND

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PhD student NUTRIMIND Sintesi in italiano (traduzione automatica): L'Università di Wageningen cerca un dottorando altamente motivato per il progetto NUTRIMIND, finanziato dall'Unione Europea, che esplora il legame tra alimentazione, microbiota intestinale e salute mentale. Il candidato contribuirà a studi sull'associazione tra esposizioni dietetiche e risultati di salute mentale, analizzando dati esistenti e coordinando valutazioni dietetiche e campionamenti. Le principali mansioni includono l'analisi di dati di coorte, l'integrazione di dati biologici e la collaborazione con istituti partner per standardizzare metodi. È richiesta una laurea magistrale in Nutrizione o un campo correlato. Il lavoro si svolgerà presso l'Università di Wageningen, in collaborazione con vari partner europei. Are you curious about whether mental health, gut microbiome and nutrition are connected? We are seeking a highly motivated PhD candidate to join NUTRIMIND, a Horizon-funded, multi-disciplinary project that investigates how diet and the microbiota-gut-brain axis might shape mental health across the lifespan. In collaboration with leading universities, research institutes, NGOs and SMEs across Europe, you will help unravel diet-linked risk signatures for depression, anxiety and stress, and translate these insights into practical, scalable strategies for prevention and care. The project will consist of several work packages, and Wageningen University will be responsible for the work packages related to dietary exposures and mental health outcomes in existing studies. This primarily includes studies from Wageningen University and related partners (e.g. Wageningen Student Cohort, FINGER-NL, HELI, COMBI, and PRECODE but also from the United Kingdom, Spain and other countries). As PhD student, your duties and responsibilities include: conduct data analyses of existing cohort and trial data to study association of dietary exposures and stress, anxiety and mental health outcomes; contribute to integration of broader biological data into the diet–mental health relationship by incorporating gut health indices (e.g. short‑chain fatty acids, intestinal permeability markers), omics data (untargeted metabolomics, proteomics) and neurobiological markers; plan and coordinate follow‑up waves of the Wageningen Student Cohort, including dietary assessment, sample collection (blood, faeces, urine) and mental health assessments using validated instruments; coordinate laboratory analyses of biofluid and fecal samples from the abovementioned studies; collaborate with partner institutes to standardize methods and contribute to data harmonization efforts across studysites You will work here The research is embedded within the chair groups of Global Nutrition (Professor Alida Melse-Boonstra), Nutritional Biology (Dr Yannick Vermeiren) and Nutrition and Disease (Dr Renate Winkels). Wageningen University ( division Human Nutrition and Health ) serves as an important consortium member of the European Horizon project called NUTRIMIND, which consists of 16 European consortium partners (link LinkedIn page chairholder or page at WUR site). You will be co-supervised by Dr Alida Melse-Boonstra , Dr Yannick Vermeiren , Dr Renate Winkels. Annuncio in inglese. Fonte: Euraxess (Commissione europea).