EFFoST Annual Conference

Bologna, Italy

21st November, 2012

2013 EFFoST Annual Meeting: Bio-based Technologies in the Context of European Food Innovation Systems

12-15th November 2013, Savoia Hotel Regency, Bologna, Italy

Join us at the 2013 EFFoST Annual Meeting which will be held in the historic city of Bologna, Italy, from 12-15 November 2013.

There is a strong and increasing interest in the relationship between food consumption, public health, well-being, healthy ageing and more general aspects such as sustainability and resource efficiency; so much so that developments in these food research areas have been included as a bio-based technology component of the Priority “Societal Challenges” platform within the EU’s Horizon 2020 vision documents. All the above topics will be the subject of plenary lectures, research papers and discussions at the next EFFoST Annual Meeting to be held in Bologna, Italy, from 12th-15th November, 2013.

The conference programme will be focused on two topic streams, one addressing bio-based scientific approaches for food-human wellbeing interaction, and the other relating more specifically to bio-based technologies for industry competitiveness.
To read the Conference Chair’s Welcome Address please click here.

This is a significant opportunity for you to join leaders and students from industry and academia to debate these new challenges and for you to network with your international colleagues.

The conference will address the following themes:

I. Consumer well-being
a. Diet-host interaction: biotech / metabolomic approaches

1. Gut microflora / food design relationship
2. Safety aspect of food associated microorganisms
3. Molecular determinants / food formulation
4. Probiotics from genomics to functionality

b. Diet and physical activity

1. Level of physical activity and diet needs & interaction
   • High level
   • Intermediate
   • Low – sedentary

c. Healthy ageing

II. Industry competitiveness
a. Technology innovation by omic approaches / bioprocesses 

1. Enzymes & biocatalysis
2. Biomasses & biopolymers
3. Process ecology / sustainability
4. Biorefinery

b. Bio-based analytical approaches for food quality

1. Metabolomic and food characterization
   • Genuinity / authenticity / adulteration
2. Structural proteomic
3. Genomic and metagenomic in evaluation of food safety