Journal of Nutrition & Food Sciences
Open Access
ISSN: 2155-9600
ISSN: 2155-9600
Rastall RA
Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences, University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 6AP, UK
Professor Bob Rastall is Professor of Food Biotechnology in the Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences at the University of Reading in the UK. He has been involved in prebiotic oligosaccharide research for more than 20 years. His interests are predominantly in the structure-function relationships in prebiotics and the generation of novel candidate prebiotics using biotechnological approaches. Utilisation of agrifood processing wastes for this purpose is a particular current focus.
Previous posts: 1987-1993: University of Westminster, London, UK. During this time I worked on two research projects: “The development of enzymatic synthesis protocols to manufacture oligosaccharides as phytoalexin elicitors” and “Bioinformatics of complex oligosaccharide sequences”
Education: 1980-1984: BSc Applied Biology, The University of Greenwich, London, UK. Specialising in microbiology, biochemistry and biotechnology. Final year research project on outer membrane proteins of Pseudomonas morsprunorum.
His research at this time focussed on the cell surface carbohydrates of this pear tree pathogen, attempting to identify the structure of the cell surface polysaccharides elaborated by the bacterium and their postulated role in virulence in planta.