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Galia Zamaratskaia

Galia Zamaratskaia
I graduated as a Biologist (Samara University, 1993) and obtained a PhD in Food Sciences at Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (2004). My research focus on the factors affecting food quality, especially plant-based food. I am also interested in food consumption in relation to human health. I regularly communicate my research results in the form of scientific and popular articles as well as international conferences. I published >120 peer-reviewed articles (h-index 30 in scopus and 37 Google Scholar).

Presentation

EDUCATION

2004   Ph.D., Department of Food Science, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala, Sweden. Thesis title: Factors involved in the development of boar taint - influence of breed, age, diet and raising conditions.

 

 

Teaching

Teaching at SLU

Postgraduate courses

2017, 2018, 2019 Co-organizer  “How to communicate science”, 2 hp

2018 Co-organizer "Advances in enzyme regulation", 5 hp https://www.slu.se/en/graduate-schools/focus-on-food-and-biomaterials/program/advances-in-enzyme-regulation/

2017 Organizer and teacher “How to write and publish scientific paper within molecular sciences” offered by the research school Focus on food biomaterials”, 5 hp
2017. Organizer and teacher “Bioactive components in feed and food”, 5 hp (lecturing “Introduction to bioactive compounds and bioactivity”, “Phase I and Phase II metabolism”, leading the seminar “Selected topics”, total 8 hours)
2016. Organizer “Multivariate statistics and experimental design in food science” 2 hp
2016. Organizer “Rheology and mechanics in Food Science” 1 hp
2014. Teacher “Analytical Methods in Biology and Nutrition” SLU
(lectures: “Introduction to UPLC”, 1 hour; “Capillary Electrophoresis”, 1 hour; “Principles of immunoassaus”, 2 hours; “Measurements of insulin in horse plasma by ELISA” laboratory work, 6 hours; “Interpretation of ELISA results” seminar, 2 hours)
2009, 2011, 2013, 2015 Organizer and teacher in the postgraduate course “Scientific writing within food science” offered by the research school Food in Focus at SLU, 5 hp
2011 Teacher in the postgraduate course “Bioactive components in feed and food”. Lecture “Metabolism Phase I, CYP450, regulation” 2 hours.
2011 Organizer and teacher in the postgraduate course “Interactions between food/ feed components and hepatic metabolism II (practical applications)” offered by the research school Food in Focus at SLU, 3 hp. This course involves individual project work including work in laboratory on a given project (under my supervision), discussions, data interpretation and presentation.
2010 Organizer and teacher in the postgraduate course “Interactions between food/ feed components and hepatic metabolism” offered by the research school Food in Focus at SLU, 5 hp (total lecturing 12 hours). The course provided an overview on the most relevant mechanisms of actions, function and regulations of hepatic enzymes in livestock animals and fish.
2010, 2012 Organizer and teacher in the postgraduate course “Analytical Methods in Biology and Nutrition” SLU (2 lectures, “Introduction to UPLC”, 1 hour; “Capillary Electrophoresis”, 1 hour)
2008 Teacher in the postgraduate course “Practical HPLC for food scientists and biologists” offered at our department (lecture “Application of UPLC” 1 hour)

Undergraduate courses
2018 Administrator and teacher in the undergraduate course “Landbrukets livsmedelprodukter” in SWEDISH (lectures “Plant-based foods”, 6 hours)
2016, 2017, 2018. Administrator and teacher in the undergraduate course “Introduction course – Agronomy-food science”, (Lectures “Introduction to food chemistry”, various seminars) In SWEDISH
2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018. Teacher in the undergraduate course “Food Chemistry” (lectures “Water in foods” 2 hours, “Minerals”, 2 hours; lecture “Immunoassays” 2 hours; seminar “Enzymes in food” 2 hours)
2016, 2017, 2018. Teacher in the course “Human nutrition” (lectures “Bone health” and “Minerals in human nutrition”)
2014, 2015, 2016, 2017. Teacher in the course “Our foods” (Meat science) 7.5 hp. In SWEDISH
2015, 2016, 2017. Teacher in the undergraduate course “Animal Food Science” offered at our department (face-to-face lectures “Meat history”, 1 hour, “Biochemistry of muscle”, 1 hour, “Conversion of muscle to meat”, 1 hour, “Tenderization of meat” 1 hour, web-based lectures “Endocrinology of meat-producing animals”, 1 hour, “Boar taint and meat quality”, 1 hour). Responsible for seminar “Boar taint”
2013, 2014. Responsible for part “Meat science” and teacher in the undergraduate course “Animal Food Science” offered at our department (face-to-face lectures “Meat history”, 1 hour, “Biochemistry of meat”, 1 hour (2014), “Conversion of muscle to meat”, 1 hour, “Tenderization of meat” 1 hour, web-based lectures “Endocrinology of meat-producing animals”, 1 hour, “Boar taint and meat quality”, 1 hour). Responsible for seminars and student individual work
2013 Teacher in the undergraduate course “Food Chemistry” (lecture “Minerals”, 2 hours)
2010, 2011, 2012 Organizer and teacher in the undergraduate course “Självständigt arbete inom Magisterprogrammet för Livsmedelstillsyn”, 15 hp In SWEDISH
2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 Organizer and teacher in the course “Product development” (administration, developing and teaching), 7.5 hp. This course was a part of a distance master program “Food– innovation and market”
2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Teacher in the undergraduate course “Animal Food Science” offered at our department (lectures “Boar taint and meat quality”, 2008-2012; “Immunocastration in livestock animals”, 2011; “Proteomics as a tool to study meat quality”, 2012)

Program development

2014-2017. Co-responsibility for the development and implementation of Master programs “Food safety and the production and marketing of TRADitional food PROducts in Russia and Kazakhstan” (financed by TEMPUS)
2013-2015. Sole responsibility on the behalf of SLU of the development and implementation of two BSc programs; Food Science and Food Technology at Indonesia International Institute for Life Sciences (I3L).

Invited teaching outside of SLU (financed by the host university)
2018 (September). Lecturing at Nanjing Agricultural University (Lecture: Biochemistry of boar taint)
2018 (April). Lecturing at Kostanay State University, Kazakhstan. 8 hours course “Introduction to food science”
2017 (October). Online lecturing at The Vologda State Milk Academy (Lecture: Boar taint and solutions – modern perspectives) (total 2 hours)
2017 (April). Lecturing at Mogilev State University of Food Technologies, Belorus. (Lectures: History of food and role of innovations in food evolution; Immunocastration as an innovation to improve animal welfare;Food-drug interactions). (total 3 hours)
2016 (November). Lecturing within master programme “Functional and specialized food products of plant origin” within specialty “Agronomy”. Kostanay state university A. Baitursynov, Kazakhstan (total 32 hours).
2015 (November). Lecturing within master program “"Innovative production technologies of livestock products". Kostanay state university A. Baitursynov, Kazakhstan (total 32 hours).
2015 (November). Master class for teachers and researchers "Publication of scientific article in international scientific Scopus-indexed journals". Kostanay state university A. Baitursynov, Kazakhstan (total 4 hours).
2014 (July). Course for undergraduate students (including syllabus development, course material preparation, lecturing and leading of seminars) “Principles of immunoassays”, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China (total 8 hours)
2014 (May). Two-days workshop “Introduction to food science and food technology”, Indonesia International Institute for Life Sciences, Jakarta, Indonesia (total 16 hours)

 

Research

My research is mainly focused on several areas:

- Plant-based food from local varieties

- Factors regulating meat quality

- Cytochrome P450: activity and regulation in various species. Implication for food

- Food and health

 

 

Cooperation

International collaboration within research

Norwegian School of Veterinary Science, Oslo, / Prof. E. Ropstad
Nofima Marin/Gerd Marit Berge
Nofima/ J.-E. Haugen
University of South Bohemia, Ceske Budejovice, Research Institute of Fish Culture and Hydrobiology, Vodnany /Dr. V.Zlabek
University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical science, Department of Meat hygiene and technology, Brno
University of Guelph; Dept Animal and Poultry Sciences /Prof. J.Squires

Key Laboratory of Agro-Product Quality and Safety, Institute of Quality Standards and Testing Technology for Agro-Products, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), Beijing, China., /Prof Gang Chen
Aarhus University, Tjele/Assoc. Prof. M.Rasmussen
University of California, Dep Animal Science, /Prof. T.Berger
University of the West of England/Prof. O.Doran
Agricultural Institute of Slovenia, Hacquetova ulica, Ljubljana, Slovenia (Kmetijski inštitut Slovenije), Prof M. Čandek Potokar 

Khazar University, Azerbaijan 

Poltava State Agrarian University of Ukraine, Ukraine

National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine

Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies, Latvia

Lithuanian University of Health Sciences Veterinary Academy, Lithuania

 Estonian University of Life Sciences, Estonia 

 

 

Background

2010   Associate Professor (Docent) in Food Science

2004   Ph.D., Department of Food Science, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala, Sweden. Thesis title: Factors involved in the development of boar taint - influence of breed, age, diet and raising conditions. Supervisor Prof. Lundström K.

1993   M.Sc., Department of Biology, Samara State University

Supervision

Thesis completed under my main supervision

 

2016. Shengjie Li. Project title “Novel molecular markers for changes in meat quality”, SLU, Uppsala, Sweden

2013. Xin Li. Thesis title “Effect of single genes on meat quality, growth rate and carcass quality in Swedish beef breeds”, SLU, Uppsala, Sweden (main supervisor from 2011; from 2009-2011 - associate supervisor).

2011. Carl Brunius. Thesis title “Early immunocastration of male pigs - effects on physiology, performance and behaviour”, SLU, Uppsala, Sweden

 

Thesis completed under my deputy supervision

 

2023. Associate supervisor for PhD student Mathilde Brunel “Metabolites in fish and humans as a response to different food ingredients”, SLU

2020. Nor Adila Mhd Omar “Dietary carbohydrate quality and low grade inflammation”, Karolinska institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

2018. Sidika Sakalli, “Fish and pollutants in the aquatic environment – emphasis on xenobiotic metabolism and stress”. University of South Bohemia in Ceske Budejovice, Czech republic

2014. Viktoriia Burkina. Thesis title “Pharmaceuticals in the aquatic environment and their effects in fish” University of South Bohemia in Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic 

2012. Martin Krøyer Rasmussen. Thesis title “Regulation of cytochrome P450 in pigs with implication on boar taint” Aarhus University, Tjele, Denmark 

2007. Gang Chen, Thesis title “Physiological and biochemical factors responsible for boar taint” , SLU, Uppsala, Sweden 

 

Current PhD students

 

From 2023. Main supervisor for PhD student Alejandra Castaneda “Fermentation of plant material of European origin for better texture, taste, and nutritional properties of tempeh-like foods”

From 2022. Associate supervisor for PhD student Johanna Östlund “Fermentation of Swedish faba beans and oats for foods with improved texture, flavour, and nutritional properties”

From 2021. Associate supervisor for PhD student Jaqueline Auer “Comparative characterization of structure and digestibility of plant-based proteins in relation to processing”, SLU

From 2022. Associate supervisor for PhD student Gulnur Zhuzzhassarova, S. Seifullin Kazakh Agrotechnical University, Astana, Kazakhstan

From 2022. Associate supervisor for PhD student Gulim Abakanova, S. Seifullin Kazakh Agrotechnical University, Astana, Kazakhstan

From 2018 Associate supervisor for PhD student Ainara Iskineyeva, S. Seifullin Kazakh Agrotechnical University, Astana, Kazakhstan

 

Selected publications

2020

Balji Y., Knicky M., Zamaratskaia G. 2020. Perspectives and safety of horsemeat consumption. International Journal of Food Science and Technology 55, 942–952. DOI:10.1111/ijfs.14390

Zamaratskaia G, Nor Adila Mhd Omar, Carl Brunius, Goran Hallmans, Jan-Erik Johansson, Sven-Olof Andersson, Anders Larsson, Per Åman, Rikard Landberg. 2020. Consumption of whole grain/bran rye instead of refined wheat decrease concentrations of TNF-R2, e-selectin, and endostatin in an exploratory study in men with prostate cancer. Clinical Nutrition 39 (1), 159-165.

Nikiforova A., Zamaratskaia G., Pickova J. 2020. Fatty acid composition of salted and fermented products from Baikal omul (Coregonus autumnalis migratorius). Journal of Food Science and Technology 57(2), 595-605.  doi: 10.1007/s13197-019-04091-z. 

Dubreil E, Sczubelek L, Burkina V, Zlabek V, Sakalli S, Zamaratskaia G, Hurtaud-Pessel D, Verdon E. 2020. In vitro investigations of the metabolism of Victoria pure blue BO dye to identify main metabolites for food control in fish. Chemosphere 238, 124538 doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2019.124538

Shi J, Zhao D, Song S, Zhang M, Zamaratskaia G, Xu Xi, Zhou G, Li C, 2020. High-Meat-Protein High-Fat Diet Induced Dysbiosis of Gut Microbiota and Tryptophan Metabolism in Wistar Rats. J. Agric. Food Chem. 68, 6333. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jafc.0c00245

Burkina V, Sakalli S, Giang PT, Grabicová K, Vojs Staňová A, Zamaratskaia G, Zlabek V., 2020. In Vitro Metabolic Transformation of Pharmaceuticals by Hepatic S9 Fractions from Common Carp (Cyprinus carpio). Molecules  25(11), 2690; https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules25112690

Aluwé M, Heyrman E, Almeida JM, Babol J, Battacone G, Čítek J, Font i Furnols M, Getya A, Karolyi D, Kostyra E, Kress K, Kušec G, Mörlein D, Semenova A, Škrlep M, Stoyanchev T, Tomašević I, Tudoreanu L, Van Son M, Żakowska-Biemans S, Zamaratskaia G, Van den Broeke A, Egea M. 2020. Exploratory Survey on European Consumer and Stakeholder Attitudes towards Alternatives for Surgical Castration of Piglets. Animals 10, 1758.

Bee, G.; Quiniou, N.; Maribo, H.; Zamaratskaia, G.; Lawlor, P.G. 2020. Strategies to Meet Nutritional Requirements and Reduce Boar Taint in Meat from Entire Male Pigs and Immunocastrates. Animals, 10, 1950.

 

2021

Zamaratskaia G, Gerhardt K, Wendin K. 2021. Biochemical characteristics and potential applications of ancient cereals - an underexploited opportunity for sustainable production and consumption. Trends in Food Science & Technology 107, 114-123.

Burkina V, Zamaratskaia G, Sakalli S, Giang PT, Zlabek V, Rasmussen M., 2021. Tissue-specific expression and activity of cytochrome P450 1A and 3A in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). Toxicology Letters 341, 1–10.

Mhd Omar NA, Frank J, Kruger J, Dal Bello F, Medana C, Collino M, Zamaratskaia G, Michaelsson K, Wolk A, Landberg R. 2021. Effects of High Intakes of Fructose and Galactose, with or without Added Fructooligosaccharides, on Metabolic Factors, Inflammation, and Gut Integrity in a Rat Model. Mol Nutr Food Res. 6:e2001133. doi: 10.1002/mnfr.202001133

Almerud P, Zamaratskaia G, Lindroos AK, Bjermo H, Andersson EM, Lundh T, Ankarberg EH, Lignell S. 2021. Cadmium, total mercury, and lead in blood and associations with diet, sociodemographic factors, and smoking in Swedish adolescents. Environ Res. 197:110991. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2021.110991. 

Shi, J., Zhao, D., Zhao, F. Wang, C., Zamaratskaia, G, Li, C. 2021. Chicken-eaters and pork-eaters have different gut microbiota and tryptophan metabolites. Sci Rep 11, 11934. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-91429-3

Johanson SM, Ropstad E, Østby GC, Aleksandersen M, Zamaratskaia G, Boge GS, Halsne R, Trangerud C, Lyche JL, Berntsen HF, Zimmer KE, Verhaegen S. 2021. Perinatal exposure to a human relevant mixture of persistent organic pollutants: Effects on mammary gland development, ovarian folliculogenesis and liver in CD-1 mice. PLoS One 16(6):e0252954. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0252954. 

Iskineyeva, A., Mustafaeva, A., Zamaratskaya, G., Fazylov, S., Pustolaikina, I.A., Nurkenov, O.A., Sarsenbekova, A., Seilkhanov, Т., & Bakirova, R. (2021) Preparation of encapsulated α-tocopherol acetate and study of its physico-chemical and biological properties. Bulletin of the University of Karaganda – Chemistry, 103(3), 27-36. https://doi.org/10.31489/2021Ch3/27-36

 

2022

Zamaratskaia G., Bjermo H., Lindroos A.K., Ruokojärvi P., Rantakokko P., Kiviranta H., Lignell S. 2022. Breastfeeding during infancy and consumption of fish and dairy products are associated with chlorinated persistent organic pollutants in serum from Swedish adolescents. Environmental Advances, 8, art. no. 100210. DOI: 10.1016/j.envadv.2022.100210

Quiniou, N., Bee, G., Maribo, H., Zamaratskaia G, & Lawlor, P. (2022). What kind of feeding strategies should be used to meet nutritional requirements of entire male pigs and or immuno-castrated pigs and to reduce the risk of boar taint in meat?. INRAE Productions Animales, 35(2), 109–120. https://doi.org/10.20870/productions-animales.2022.35.2.7079

Burkina V, Zamaratskaia G, Rasmussen M., 2022. Curcumin and quercetin modify warfarin-induced regulation of porcine CYP1A2 and CYP3A expression and activity in vitro. Xenobiotica, 52(5):435-441. doi: 10.1080/00498254.2022.2089932 

Akhmetova, V., Balji, Y., Kandalina, Y., Iskineyeva, A., Mukhamejanova, A., Baspakova, A., Uzakov, Y., Issayeva, K., & Zamaratskaia, G. (2022). Self-reported consumption frequency of meat and fish products among young adults in Kazakhstan. Nutrition and Health. https://doi.org/10.1177/02601060221114230

Nor Adila Mhd Omar, Johan Dicksved, Johanita Kruger, Galia Zamaratskaia, Karl Michaelsson, Alicja Wolk, Jan frank, Rikard Landberg. Effect of a diet rich in galactose or fructose, with or without fructooligosaccharides, on gut microbiota composition in rats. Frontiers in nutrition, 9, 922336. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2022.922336


Contact

Senior Lecturer at the Department of Molecular Sciences; Matens strukturer och egenskaper
Telephone: +4618672069
Postal address:
Institutionen för molekylära vetenskaper
Box 7015
750 07 Uppsala
Visiting address: Almas Allé 5, BioCentrum, Ultuna, Uppsala