Charles Brennan

Professor Charles Brennan

Chief Scientific Director - Food & Nutrition Innovation Hub

Details

Open to

  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision

Supervisor projects

  • Bioactive compounds in Vietnamese native mushrooms and their health benefits
  • 5 Dec 2023
  • Improving freekeh nutritional and technological quality through novel approaches
  • 4 Oct 2023
  • We are what we eat: Dietary fibres and their role in targeted human health applications
  • 25 May 2023
  • Sensorial perception appetite reward affective responses and mood among astronauts
  • 16 May 2023
  • Development of a Novel Fermented Vegetable Product using Native Australian Vegetables and Starter Culture with Various Health Benefits
  • 14 Apr 2023
  • Technological interventions for value addition of polyherbal spent materials from ayurvedic industries
  • 19 Dec 2022
  • Food perception during spaceflight from Earth
  • 28 Oct 2022
  • Micronized Sugar Beet Pulp Particles As Pickering Emulsifiers: Mechanism and Applications
  • 9 Aug 2022
  • Extraction, Investigation, and Potential Application of Baijiu Jiuzao Glutelin
  • 3 Aug 2022
  • Development and characterization of elderly formula foods
  • 12 Jul 2022
  • Identification of resistant starch-rich sources from selected plants and development of low-calorie food products with functional properties
  • 6 May 2022
  • Development of malted milk powder enriched with bioactive compounds by incorporating selected germinated cereals and pulses.
  • 11 Apr 2022
  • Molecular characterisation of interactions between lectin protein from common mushroom (Agaricus bisphorus) with dietary carbohydrates
  • 19 Jan 2022
  • In-depth understanding of interactions between alpha-amylase and phenolics from pitaya fruit utilising molecular biochemistry, enzymatic assays, spectroscopy and in-silico simulations
  • 28 Sep 2021
  • The Hypoglycaemic Mechanisms of Mushrooms and Their Polysaccharides on Gluten-Free Food Models
  • 27 Aug 2021

Research interests

Food Sciences
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RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.