Science Symposium Co-Chairs
Philip Calder, PhD
Southampton University
United Kingdom
Sushila Chang, PhD
Griffith University
Australia
Session 1: Progress in technologies and their applications
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Session Co-Chairs: Dr. Jan-Willem van Klinken, Senior Vice President Medical & Scientific Affairs, Brightseed, USA and Dr. H N Mishra, Professor of Food Technology in the Agricultural & Food Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
- From N-of-1 healthcare to food technology: harnessing digital medicine approaches to food and nutrition challenges – Dr. Dean Ho, College of Design and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Combating the double burden of malnutrition: building evidence-base with nuclear and isotopic techniques – Dr. Victor Owino, Nutritional and Health-Related Environmental Studies Section, Division of Human Health, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Austria
- Food tech innovations for nutrition and health security – Dr. H N Mishra, Professor of Food Technology in the Agricultural & Food Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
- Artificial intelligence – Dr. Bernardo Calzadilla-Sarmiento, Managing Director, Directorate of Digitalization, Technology and Agri-Business, and Director, Department of Digitalization, Technology and Innovation, United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), Austria
- Forager: An Artificial Intelligence Platform Illuminating the Connection Between Plants, Nutrition and Health – Dr. Jan-Willem van Klinken, Senior Vice President Medical & Scientific Affairs, Brightseed, USA
Session 2: Improving nutrition for public benefit
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Session Chair: Professor Philip Calder, Head of Human Development & Health and Professor of Nutritional Immunology within Medicine at the University of Southampton, United Kingdom
- ILSI U.S. and Canada charter on applications of globally harmonized nutrients: development and application of nutrient bioavailability algorithms – Dr. Connie Weaver, San Diego State University, USA
- The Delta Model®: nutrient provision of the global food production system – Dr. Jeremy P. Hill, The Riddet Institute, Sustainable Nutrition Initiative®, New Zealand
- Identifying and treating malnutrition in community-living seniors – Dr. Heather Keller, University of Waterloo, Canada
- Steps towards precision nutrition – Dr. Jose Ordovas, Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, USA
- Towards a healthy human microbiome – Dr. Seppo Salminen, Director, Functional Foods Forum, University of Turku, Finland
Session 3: Global initiatives to improve population health - What can we learn from each other
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Session Co-Chairs: Dr. Kerr Dow, ILSI Global Board Co-Chair, Vice President, Global Research and Development, Cargill (retired), USA, and Dr. Louise Dye, ILSI Global Board Co-Chair, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
- EU-FOOD2030 R&I policy framework and horizon Europe outlook – Dr. Cindy Schoumacher, Policy Officer, Bioeconomy & Food Systems, DG Research & Innovation, European Commission, Belgium
- FAO 2030 agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean – Dr. Israel Rios Castillo, Nutrition Officer, FAO Subregional Office for Mesoamerica, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Costa Rica
- Steps planned/needed for sustainable food systems in Asia Pacific – Thanawat Tiensin, Permanent Representative of Thailand to the United Nations Agencies in Rome (FAO, IFAD, WFP), Italy
- Healthy people 2030 nutrition goals: building a healthier future for all – Janet DeJesus, MS, Nutrition Advisor at HHS Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, USA
Moderators for the panel discussion: Session Co-Chairs Dr. Louise Dye and Dr. Kerr Dow
Watch the full panel discussion video here.
Session 4: Improving the credibility and integrity of nutrition research
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Session Co-Chairs: Dr. Sushila Chang, Griffith University, Australia and Dr. Douwina Bosscher, Research and Development Director Global Edible Oils Solutions (GEOS), Europe, Cargill, Belgium
- Trouble in science and science in trouble – Dr. Hannelore Daniel, Technical University of Munich, Germany
- Best practices for nutrition trials in humans – Dr. Connie Weaver, San Diego State University, USA
- Trials and tribulations of scientific integrity in tripartite collaborations – Dr. Sushila Chang, Griffith University, Australia
- Improving the credibility of the science of nutrition – Dr. Philip Calder, Head of Human Development & Health, Professor of Nutritional Immunology, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Session 5: The coming revolution of the Omics sciences: Metabolomics and Foodomics for increased understanding of food nutrients, quality, traceability and health impacts
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Session co-organized with the Periodic Table of Food Initiative (PTFI).
Session Co-Chairs: Dr. Nora Khaldi, Nuritas Founder and CEO, Ireland and Dr. Carlos Malpica Lizarzaburu, CEO of MLP Vision Biotech S.L, Spain
- Metabolomics to analyze food components and current database development – Dr. David Wishart, University of Alberta, Canada
- What are we eating? Metabolomics can give us an insight – Dr. Lorraine Brennan, Professor, School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, Ireland
- Foodomics: The significance for future food – Dr. Alejandro Cifuentes, Full Research Professor at the Institute of Food Science Research (CIAL), National Research Council of Spain (CSIC), Madrid, Spain
Session 6: Climate change and sustainability
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Session Chair: Dr. Hannia Leon, Executive Director, ILSI Mesoamerica, Costa Rica
- How to achieve net zero C – Stéphanie Bouckaert, Head of Demand Sectors Unit, International Energy Agency (IEA), France
- The interface of water and food – Dr. Lee-Ann Jaykus, William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor in the Department of Food, Bioprocessing, and Nutrition Sciences at North Carolina State University, USA
- Economic potential of food system transformation – Dr. Steven Lord, European Food System Futures at Environmental Change Institute (ECI), University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Session 7: Food safety challenges and opportunities in a post-Covid world
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Session Co-Chairs: Dr. Lee-Ann Jaykus, William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor in the Department of Food, Bioprocessing, and Nutrition Sciences at North Carolina State University, USA and Mr. Geoffry Smith, Chairman of the Essential Micronutrients Foundation, Singapore
- One health and one water: surface water as potential reservoir of zoonotic pathogens – Dr. Jianghong Meng, Director of the Joint Institute for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition (JIFSAN), and Professor at Department of Nutrition and Food Science, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
- Cybersecurity and the role of the food safety manager – Dr. John W. Spink, Assistant Professor, Department of Supply Chain Management in the Business College at Michigan State University, USA
- Sensing bacteria and bacterial sensing – Dr. Ariel Furst, Department of Chemical Engineering, School of Engineering at MIT, USA
2022 ILSI Federation Scholar Travel Awardees
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- Influence of dietary supplementation of Lactobacillus and Saccharomyces cultures on growth performance, fecal microbiota, blood profile, cholesterol contents and metagenomic study by replacing antibiotics as growth promoter in broilers - Dr. Subrota Hati, Assistant Professor at the Department of Dairy Microbiology, SMC College of Dairy Science, Kamdhenu University, India
- Diet-derived fruit and vegetable metabolites show sex-specific inverse relationsihps to osteoporosis status - Kelsey M. Mangano, Associate Professor at the Department of Biomedical and Nutritional Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, USA
- Short-chain fatty acids and responses to acute psychological stress - Dr. Boushra Dalile, Post-doctoral Researcher (Translational Research Center for Gastrointestinal Disorders (TARGID) - Department of chronic diseases and metabolism (CHROMETA)) at KU Leuven, Belgium
- The impact of birth weight inadequacy on neonatal survival in term newborns: a population-based study in a middle-income setting - Dr. Tulio Konstantyner, Professor and Head of Nutrition Unit - Department of Pediatric - São Paulo Federal University, Brasil
- Socioeconomic status impact on diet quality and body mass index in eight Latin American countries: ELANS study results - Dahiana Quesada, psychology student at the University of Costa Rica, Costa Rica
- Dietary Risk Assessment of 2-/3- Monochloropropanediol esters (MCPDEs) and Glycidyl esters (GEs) in the Taiwanese Population: the implications for food safety management strategies - Dr. Wei-Hsiang Chang, Assistant Professor, Food Safety/Hygiene and Risk Management, NCKU, Taiwan
- Regional assessment of kharif maize under future climate scenarios in Tamil Nadu - Dr. S. Kokilavani, Assistant Professor (Agrl. Meteorology) at the Agro Climate Research Centre at the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, India
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