About the Munich Functional Metabolomics Initiative
The Munich FUNCTIONAL METABOLOMICS Initiative is represented by a consortium of scientists from academia and industry. They are dedicated to promoting metabolomics research at all levels of complexity. The group unifies experts from analytics, structural biology, biochemistry, food chemistry, human nutrition and eco toxicology who study metabolites for the sake of understanding their structure, their concentrations, their interdependence and their dynamics in biological systems. This partnership is devoted to unify the expertise on metabolite analysis by means of classical mass-based platforms with those of NMR-technologies in the Munich vicinity and abroad. Both, the Technische Universität München as well as the Helmholtz-Zentrum München have a variety of NMR-experts and as a joint effort maintain the Bayerische NMR-Zentrum (Bavarian NMR Center). In addition, various partner groups have state-of the art LC-based mass-spectrometry equipment for metabolite profiling and quantification. The expertise on Bioinformatics for data processing and statistical analysis is provided by partners from the Institute of Medical Informatics of the TUM medical faculty and the Helmholtz-Zentrum. The partners have initiated a joint project in which biofluids form a highly controlled human trial and are submitted to all platforms for the most comprehensive analysis via the NMR and MS-platforms.
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About Z I E L Research Center for Nutrition and Food Sciences
Z I E L is a central institution at the Technische Universität München (TUM). It operates under the auspices of the University Management of TUM and is headed by a team of three academic directors. Z I E L is organised in seven research units comprising Biochemistry, Nutritional Medicine, Biofunctionality, Microbiology, Physiology, Technology and Bioanalytics. According to its guiding principle „Food and nutritional science for the welfare of humans and society” Z I E L unifies research competences from food technology and microbiology with human nutrition and medicine. Z I E L conducts interdisciplinary research on the interface of food quality, nutrition and health. Its aim is to assess food and nutrition quality in a holistic manner from production of raw materials to food processing, to human physiology and pathophysiology.
About Technische Universität München
'At home in Bavaria, successful in the world‘ is the motto, linking provenance and posterity at the Technische Universität München (TUM). TUM was founded as a ‚polytechnic school‘ at the heart of Europe in 1868. It has played an active role in transforming Bavaria from an agricultural state to a high-tech location. TUM – “The Entrepreneurial University” - was voted Elite University in a joint decision taken by the Science Council and the German Research Foundation in 2006. Latching on TUM‘s performance so far, it is planned to invest a budget amounting to around 150 million euros in consolidating its existing strengths and boosting weaker areas with the help of an attractive environment by 2011.
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