IBBR URT Reggio Emilia

The Unit foundation

The IBBR research unit located at the Department of Life Sciences of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (DSV) was established to consolidate the long-term fruitful collaboration between the two Institutions and to extend it to the whole CNR (Fig.1).

CNR - IBBR Reggio Emilia URT aims to enhance the scientific exchange between Institutions operating in the agri-food field in the Emilia Romagna Region

CNR - IBBR Reggio Emilia URT relies on well consolidated competences and expertise, and represents an opportunity for the development of new knowledge and tools related to:

• Study of the Volatiloma, in the agro-food sector
• Set-up of new nanomaterials acting as a substrate for gas sensors (MOX)
• Study of new biosensors based on biological substrates
• Gas Chromatography with Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS) for the study of the complexity of the Volatiloma
• Integrated IoT Data-Base from farm to fork to support traceability and quality in the food chain.

Research activities

• Testing nanotechnological sensors for the creation of an array of high-performance and tailored MOX sensors for the specific application in the agri-food sector;
• Creation of databases, in order to create tailored algorithms and neural networks related to the data acquired by devices equipped with gas sensors on different food matrices (fig.3);
• IoT Data base will be implemented and applied in real time associated with the archived data of the sensors array in order to predict possible scenario already analyzed
• Chemical / physical / microbiological analysis with classical and innovative chemical and microbiological techniques for the study of volatiloma in samples of agri-food origin (fig.2).

Head: Dr. Veronica Sberveglieri
e-mail: veronica.sberveglieri@ibbr.cnr.it