Scientific Breakthroughs #9: Unlocking the plant bioeconomy

​We’re excited to welcome Elena Del Pup, PhD Student in Bioinformatics at Wageningen University & Research, whose research focuses on data-driven strategies for the discovery of plant natural products and their applications in the sustainable bioeconomy.

​✨ Scientific Breakthrough is Nucleate Italy's program dedicated to outstanding scientists and emerging innovators shaping the future of biotechnology. Each episode offers young researchers a space to dive into high-impact research and spark cross-disciplinary dialogue.

​In this session, she’ll share her scientific journey, from exploring how plants produce their remarkable chemical diversity to building data-driven strategies to search for plant natural products. She’ll show how integrating plant metabolic knowledge with multi-omics data can speed up discovery, and how this opens new routes to sustainable bioeconomy products such as medicines, crop protectants, flavours and biomaterials.