Marianne Stenrød
Head of Department/Head of Research
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Division of Biotechnology and Plant Health
(+47) 482 97 607 marianne.stenrod@nibio.no Office Location: Ås H7
Contacts
Central research topics and tasks are:
- Food safety: Analysis and capacity building in pesticides and plant toxins in food and feed of plant origin.
- Contribute to sustainable agriculture through monitoring and research on fate and occurrence of pesticides and natural toxins in the agroecosystem (plants, water, soil, sediment).
- Natural products chemistry: Metabolite profiling of plants and microorganisms, screening for natural toxins etc.
- Analysis of a range of organic chemicals customized for the needs of specific research projects (bioactive natural products, plant volatiles, organic pollutants etc).
The department holds the National Reference Laboratory (NRL) for analysis of pesticide residues in food and feed of plant origin and has a national R&D responsibility for pesticides in the environment. We perform monitoring and R&D work for the Norwegian Food Safety Authority and the Ministry of Agriculture and Food, as well as competitive research and analysis projects for a wide range of customers.
