Powered by NSU is a new NSU Food security Research Center.
According to Yuliya Otmahova, the Director of the Center and a Senior Research Scientist (Ph.D. in Economics, working at the Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering, SB RAS), 鈥淣ew issues in food security require not only some basic knowledge of biology, genetics or economics of agribusiness, but also conceptually new, nonstandard decisions based on cooperation of researchers from diverse areas.鈥�
The Center has a famous specialist on wheat genetics Elena Khlestkina, Doctor of biological sciences from the Institute of Cytology and Genetics, SB RAS, as a research advisor. The staff includes researchers from the Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering and the Institute of Cytology and Genetics of SB RAS as well as specialists in food processing.
The researchers are going to define the biological origin of food, develop technologies to identify faulty products, develop new methods of 鈥渟mart genetics鈥� in order to obtain new cultivars of wheat and other crop plants along with creating a new paradigm for economic analysis of the food market and applying economic modeling for food security.
The Center is also going to search for new topical areas of research for the integration projects of researchers from NSU and research institutes of SB RAS and Southeast Asia, with analysis of the prospects for technologies and products that could boost collaborations in the frameworks of the 鈥淓astern Vector鈥� being another important task.
Moreover, the Center is to provide expertise in food security for Russian federal and municipal customers, international governmental customers and private Russian businesses.
Close cooperation between the Center, research institutes of SB RAS and branch technological institutes as well as institutions of SB of the Russian Agricultural Academy is the key factor for the Center to be a success.
The NSU Food security Research Center is founded with support from the Program 鈥�5-100鈥�.
