Christopher Gerner
Joint Metabolome Facility, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna, Austria
Title: Metabo-tip: a non-invasive metabolomics assay combining food exposomics with health implications
Biography
Biography: Christopher Gerner
Abstract
Humans respond to food in an individualized fashion. This may be the main reason why it was difficult to define „healthy food“. Metabo-tip is an extremely sensitive assay based on the analysis of minute amounts of sweat collected from the tip of two fingers. After consumption of a normal meal, it eventually detects numerous food constituents making it into the blood in addition to pesticides, fungicides, insecticides and other agents contaminating the consumed food. Furthermore, endogenous metabolic responses to the consumed food are detectable, such as redox stress, hormonal responses, allergic reactions and other. By the use of causal models, Metabo-tip supports a unique design of experimental studies with regard to health implications of food, food supplements, ingredients and contaminants.