On the occasion of the Fascination of Plants Day, on Thursday, May 18, 2023, Dr. Danijela Poljuha and PhD student Mirela Uzelac, mag. oecol. visited the Department of Food Technology of the University of the North in Koprivnica.
They presented the results of the NATURALLY project (IP-2020-02-6899) and results of the doctoral dissertation, which is carried out as part of the program “Project for the development of careers of young researchers – training of new doctors of science” (DOK -2021-02-3094). A new collaboration was also agreed between three projects: TEMPHYS project (IP-2020-02-7585) led by Dr. Ivana Šola, GinkoBiFlav (UIP-2019-04-1018) lead by Dr. Dunja Šamec and our project NATURALLY, all three financed by the Croatian Science Foundation.
Dr. Dunja Šamec welcomed everyone with opening speech and presented the future Agreement on Cooperation on Strengthening the Research Network of Projects, after which Dr. Ivana Šola from the Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb held a lecture entitled “How does global warming affect the nutritional value of plants?“. She presented the research results of the TEMPHYS project, which deals with the indirect impact of global warming on the physiological parameters of mammals by feeding them plants grown at high temperatures.
Dr. sc. Danijela Poljuha held the lecture entitled “Small and large projects fascinated by plants” in the frame of project NATURALLY and several smaller projects that are carried out at the Institute, and PhD student Mirela Uzelac, mag. oecol., presented the topic and results of her doctoral dissertation entitled “Phytopharmaceutical potential of leaf and flower extracts of alien invasive plant species”.
We are looking forward to future cooperation!
