
Food allergy
Group Leader: Cristina Lamberti
Institute of Food Production Sciences (ISPA), National Research Council (CNR), Unit of Turin
Key words: Food safety, food allergy, allergens, proteomics, mass spectrometry, tolerance induction.
Contact
Cristina Lamberti
011 6709229 | cristina.lamberti@cnr.it
Institute
Institute of Food Production Sciences (ISPA), National Research Council (CNR), Unit of Turin
Largo Braccini 2, Grugliasco, Turin, Italy
www.ispa.cnr.it
Lab Members
Cristina Lamberti (Senior Researcher)
Laura Cavallarin (Director of research)
Simona Cirrincione (Researcher)
Beatrice Aiuto (PhD Student)
Elena Gosso (PhD student)
Maria Gabriella Giuffrida (Director of research)
Activities
Food safety applied to the allergenic potential of foods. Discovery, identification, and isolation of novel food allergens. Evaluation of the effects of food processing on allergenicity. Investigation of the molecular mechanisms underlying tolerance induction in allergic patients.
Key Publications
- Cirrincione S., Pavese V., Gosso E., Acquadro A., Schiavone A., Portesi C., Monti G., Tarraran L., Aiuto B., Lamberti C. (2025) Genetic diversity and IgE-recognition of hazelnut oleosins: a proteomic investigation across cultivars. Agric. And Food Chem. 73, 18032-18044.
- Alessi L., Cirrincione S., Aiuto B., Gosso E., Cavallarin L., Giuffrida M.G., Monti G., Lamberti C. (2025) Armelline Almond Allergy: Th first report case. J. Investig. Allergol. Clin. Immunol. 35(1).
- Aiuto B, Cirrincione S, Giuffrida MG, Cavallarin L, Portesi C, Rossi AM, Borreani G, Rolla G, Geuna M, Nicola S, Quinternetto A, Alessi L, Saracco E, Brussino L, Lamberti C. Milk Fat Globule Proteins Are Relevant Bovine Milk Allergens in Patients with α‐Gal Syndrome. Mol Nutr Food Res. 2024 May;68(10):e2300796. German. doi: 10.1002/mnfr.202300796.
- Nebbia S, Lamberti C, Cirrincione S, Acquadro A, Abbà S, Ciuffo M, Torello Marinoni D, Manfredi M, Marengo E, Calzedda R, Monti G, Cavallarin L, Giuffrida MG. Oleosin Cor a 15 is a novel allergen for Italian hazelnut allergic children. Pediatr Allergy Immunol. 2021 Nov;32(8):1743-1755. doi: 10.1111/pai.13579. Epub 2021 Jul 5.
- Lamberti C, Nebbia S, Cirrincione S, Brussino L, Giorgis V, Romito A, Marchese C, Manfredi M, Marengo E, Giuffrida MG, Rolla G, Cavallarin L. Thermal processing of insect allergens and IgE cross-recogniton in Italian patients allergic to shrimp, house dust mite and mealworm. Food Res Int. 2021 Oct;148:110567. doi: 10.1016/j.foodres.2021.110567.
Instrument & technologies
Electrophoretic techniques, image analysis, immunoblotting using sera from allergic patients, ELISA, and high-resolution mass spectrometry (Q Exactive™ Plus Hybrid Quadrupole-Orbitrap).