The PhD candidate Filip Petronijević published a manuscript in the World Mycotoxin Journal titled “Optimised production and purification of ochratoxin A for toxicological and analytical applications”. This publication represents the first official scientific output of the BIOTOXDoc doctoral network and was carried out at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU). The study presents a reproducible workflow for the efficient biosynthesis and high-purity purification of ochratoxin A, providing a robust basis for toxicological studies and future stable isotope-labelling experiments. You can find the manuscript open access at https://doi.org/10.1163/18750796-bja10029
The PhD candidate Darina Balková published a manuscript in Environmental Research Letters titled “Predicting aflatoxin risk with seasonal meteorological forecast”. This publication builds on collaboration with PhD candidate Richa Raj initiated during her BIOTOXDoc secondment at Institute of Meteorology and Climatology, BOKU (Vienna). The study presents a new approach to support early-season predictions of aflatoxin risk in maize using seasonal meteorological forecasts. You can find the manuscript open access at https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ae3629
A study by the group of Luis Botana (USC) investigating the effect of okadaic acid on human and mouse epithelial cells was published in Archives of Toxicology. The paper “Okadaic acid triggers NFκB and STAT3 phosphorylation followed by a release of inflammatory markers in human and mouse endothelial cells” by Klara Nybäck, Amparo Alfonso et al. shows that OA elicits the activation of the inflammatory cascade in both cell types, but suggests that human cells are more sensitve to OA than mouse cells. The open access publication can be found at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00204-026-04320-3