**About the Editors**

### **Giuseppe Iacomino**

G. Iacomino has more than 30 years of experience in the fields of biochemistry, cell biology, molecular biology, cancer biology, and nutritional biochemistry. His research has focused at the molecular level, on different aspects of nutrition, from chemoprevention to diet-related diseases.

His main expertise is in epigenomics, gene expression, and the role of chromatin modifiers in influencing transcriptional activity, cell cycle, and apoptosis. In this regard, the effects of nutrients with chromatin-modifying abilities are emerging as crucial issues driving the dietary impacts on health. His scientific interests also focus on the role of polyamines in governing nuclear organization: his research group discovered for the first time that polyamines self-assemble in the cell nucleus and generate compounds called nuclear polyamine aggregates (NAPs) that interact with genomic DNA and regulate decisive aspects of DNA physiology, such as conformation, protection and packaging.

His research activity has also focused on microRNA expression and epigenetics, looking for the differential signature of microRNAs in obesity and metabolic diseases.

In addition, his interests include foods and food products that improve consumer health, bioaccessibility, bioprocessing and transport using simulated digestion models.

### **Fabio Lauria**

His team's mission is focused on the understanding of the multifactorial causes of nutrition-related diseases, on the discovery of new biomarkers to study the association between diet and health, and on the dissemination of results.

He is fully involved in large European studies and closely collaborates with outstanding international research groups. His main research activity is focused on the study of the interaction between genetic and nutritional factors in the pathogenesis of diseases associated with nutrition; on the identification of the determinants of eating behaviour in children, adolescents and adults; on the study of the interaction between nutrition and gut microbiota in adults and children with overweight, celiac disease or food allergies in the context of personalized nutritional programs; on the dissemination of knowledge in nutrition field; and on the development of innovative strategies for public health.
