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Session 6
Food Biotechnology

Chair:
Peter van Bladeren, Nestlé & Chair of ETP Food for Life, UK

Co-chairs:
Giovanni Giuliano, ENEA, Italy
Ben Van Ommen, TNO, Nutrition and Food Research, The Netherlands
Christophe Lacroix, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Switzerland
Daniele Rossi, Federalimentare, Italy & Chairman of ITP “Food for life”

Keynote:
Willem de Vos, University of Wageningen, The Netherlands
– Genomics-based insight in probiotic mechanisms

Main Lectures:
Peter van Bladeren, Nestlé & ETP Food for Life, UK
– Genomic tools to study biological effects of food

Christophe Lacroix, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Switzerland
– Combined In vitro Colonic Fermentation Models with Immobilized Fecal Microbiota and Cell Models to Study the Human Gut Microbiota in the Healthy and Diseased

Peter Beyer, University of Freiburg, Germany
– Golden rice on a mission

Daniele Rossi, Federalimentare, Italy & Chairman of ITP “Food for life”
– Food SMEs and consumers’ perception on novel foods and, more in general, on food products innovation

Main lecture on a EU project:
Tim Hoog, Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, Portugal & FP6 TRUEFOOD
– Supporting Traditional European Foods with Modern Bioscience – Examples from the TRUEFOOD Project

Vladimir Popov, Bakh Institute of Biochemistry, Russian Academy of Science, Russia
– EU Project PROSPARE: Biotechnological Treatment of Poultry Leftovers

Topics

• Biotechnology of food microorganisms
• Human and animal gut microbiomes
• Plant biotechnology for food quality
• Functional food and nutrigenomics
• Functional genomics, microbial proteomics and metabolic regulation
• Genome mining for the development of new enzymes
• Novel food biotechnological processes