Manon Formaggia

My research focuses on lactation physiology and the composition of human milk, with a particular interest in low-abundance proteins and bioactive lipids and their potential roles in mother-offspring communication.

My recent research has explored approaches to detecting low-abundance proteins in human milk, where highly abundant proteins can mask less abundant components in mass spectrometry-based analyses. I am also interested in characterising milk lipid composition using mass spectrometry-based lipidomics.

More broadly, I am interested how a variety of molecular signals present in human milk may mediate communication between mother and offspring, influencing infant growth and development.