Nutrition and Metabolism
Preventative medicine and public health
Team members
Team leader
Michelle Murphy
Postdoctoral Researcher
- Joan Fernández-Ballart
- Pol Solé Navais
Researcher contributor
- Pere Cavallé Busquets
Resarchers in training
- Gemma Ornosa Martín
- José María Colomina Muela
Misions
- RTBC.Reus-Tarragona Birth Cohort (RTBC) is a prospective study of the association between monocarbonate metabolism during pregnancy and intrauterine development and childhood.
- PRE-C. This is a prospective follow-up of women with expectations of immediate conception. It monitors the nutritional status (anthropometry, biochemical and food intake and nutrients) from preconception to 6 months postpartum. Mothers and children are often Evaluated 6 years after birth.
- HOMFOL-GENUP. In a sample of 800 men and women 18 to 75 years representative of the population of our area the frequency of genetic polymorphisms that affect metabolic pathways involved in the regulation of methylation and its interaction with nutritional status in the B vitamins involved is determined.
