Seppo Salminen
MSc, MS, PhD
sepsal@utu.fi +358 29 450 2714 +358 40 060 1394 Kiinamyllynkatu 10 Turku ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0938-0420 |
Areas of expertise
Professor, Director; gut microbiota, probiotics and prebiotics, nutrition and food safety, EU regulations
Professor, Director; gut microbiota, probiotics and prebiotics, nutrition and food safety, EU regulations
Research
Food and health, intestinal microbiota, probiotics, prebiotics, functional foods, food legislation, health claims, novel foods
Food and health, intestinal microbiota, probiotics, prebiotics, functional foods, food legislation, health claims, novel foods
Teaching
Functional Foods and EU legislation, Lactic acid biotechnology
Publications 
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- Assessment of stress tolerance acquisition in the heat-tolerant derivative strains of Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis BB-12 and Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG (2014)
- Journal of Applied Microbiology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Effect of bacteria used in food industry on the proliferation and cytokine production of epithelial intestinal cellular lines (2014)
- Journal of Functional Foods
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Effects of genetic, processing, or product formulation changes on efficacy and safety of probiotics. (2014)
- Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Food matrices and cell conditions influence survival of Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG under heat stresses and during storage. (2014)
- International Journal of Food Microbiology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Gut microbiota as an epigenetic regulator: pilot study based on whole genome methylation analysis (2014)
- mBio
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Harnessing microbiome and probiotic research in sub-Saharan Africa – recommendations from an African workshop (2014)
- Microbiome
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal ) - Intestinal microbiota during early life -impact on health and disease (2014)
- Proceedings of the Nutrition Society
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal ) - Long-term monitoring of the human intestinal microbiota from the 2nd week to 13 years of age (2014)
- Anaerobe
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Pathogen exclusion properties of canine probiotics are influenced by the growth media and physical treatments simulating industrial processes (2014)
- Journal of Applied Microbiology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Polyamine supplementation in infant formula: influence on lymphocyte populations and immune system-related gene expression in a Balb/cOlaHsd mouse model. (2014)
- Food Research International
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
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