Accepted abstracts will be also invited to submit for a special issue of Food hydrocolloids
Do you want to learn more about the structure of food and how this knowledge can lead to new green and sustainable processes and could be used to create the foods for the future? Welcome to our annual Northern Lights on Food conference in Lund in May 2024!
When: 27–29 May, 2024 (lunch-to-lunch)
Where: Stadshallen, Lund, Sweden
Fees: 2900 SEK for researchers and industry, 1500 SEK for PhD students and postdocs, including conference dinner and visit to Kulturen’s Museum
Registration deadline: Please register latest 2/5-2024 (late registrations will be charged a fee of 3800SEK)
Abstract deadline and instructions: Please submit your abstract latest 25/4-2024, and note that you need an Indico account to submit your abstract. If you have trouble creating an account or submitting your abstract, please contact josefin.martell@linxs.lu.se.
Northern lights on food – boosting structural food science
Food is a complex hierarchy of various components assembled into interconnected structures, spanning multiple length-scales. This conference will showcase how to answer research questions with advanced physical techniques, and demonstrate the power of complementary techniques to achieve in depth mechanistic understanding. Harvesting, processing, distribution, storage, digestion, and uptake – all steps from raw materials to nutrition – lead to the disruption, disassembly, and reassembly of structures with all these changes in the food matrix being highly dynamic. Food structure is responsible of functional properties such as texture, release of aroma, and taste as well as availability and release of nutritional components. The study of food structure demands the use of multiple structural techniques adequate for different time and length scales as well as models and simulations- based interpretation of data. Complementarity of X-ray and neutron-based techniques and developments in modeling bring new opportunities to redefine the discipline of structural food science.
The conference “Northern lights on food – boosting structural food science” brings together leading scientists in the field and focuses on the study of food structure, the interrelationship between structure and function, and how a combination of techniques is necessary to fully understand the changes occurring in structure and function of food in complex matrices.
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Preliminary schedule – might be subject to some changes. More speakers will be announced after the abstract deadline.
Monday 27 May
12:00 – 13:00 Registration and light lunch
13:00 – 13:15 Welcome by Prof. Annika Olsson, Dean of Faculty of Engineering, Lund University, Sweden
13:15 – 13:55 Structure Evolution of Meat Analogues During Processing Studied with Neutrons, Wim Bouwman, TU Delft, The Netherlands
14:00 – 14:20 TBA
14:25 – 14:45 TBA
14:45 – 15:15 Coffee break
15:20 – 16:00 Gastrointestinal digestion of food systems from a mechanistic and structural perspective, Marta Martinez- Sans, CIAL-CSIC-UAM, Spain
16:05 – 16:25 TBA
16:30 – 16:50 TBA
16:50 – 17:05 Break
17:05 – 18:00 Popular science talk by Armando Perez Cueto, Umeå University, Sweden: “What do consumers want from plant-based foods?”
18:00 – 20:00 Mingle and “standing dinner” and poster session
Tuesday 28 May
09:00 – 09:40 Understanding the Nano and Microstructures of Casein and Casein-Based Products Using Small-Angle Scattering (SAS) Techniques, Jitendra Mata, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO), Australia
09:45 – 10:05 TBA
10:10 – 10:30 TBA
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:05 – 11:45 X-rays and Neutrons for the Food and Food Ingredients Industry, Florian Nettesheim, IFF, Denmark
11:50 – 12:10 TBA
12:15 – 12:35 TBA
12:35 – 14:00 Lunch and poster session
14:00 – 14:20 TBA
14:25 – 14:45 TBA
14:45 – 15:05 TBA
15:10 – 15:30 TBA
17:00 – 17:45 Guided tour at Kulturen’s Museum
18:30 – Mingle and dinner at AF-Borgen
Wednesday 29 May
09:00 – 09:40 SAXS Imaging for the characterization of soft matter, Marianne Liebi, EPF Lausanne & Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland
09:45 – 10:05 TBA
10:10 – 10:30 TBA
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:05 – 11:45 Neutron reflectivity studies of the adsorption of proteins and lipids at interfaces, Giovanna Fragneto, European Spallation Source, Sweden
11:50 – 12:00 Concluding remarks
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch and goodbye
Please note that the Swedish Neutron Week will start in the same venue 14:00. You can register for the Swedish Neutron Week here
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Local Organisation committee:
Tommy Nylander, email: tommy.nylander@fkem1.lu.se
Milena Corredig
Jenny Schelin
Frida Lewerentz
Peter Spégel
Scientific committee:
Niklas Lorén (RISE Research Institutes of Sweden)
Francisco Vilaplana (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
Maud Langton (SLU Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences)
Anna Ström (Chalmers University of Technology)
Jens Risbo (University of Copenhagen)
Peter Fischer (ETH, Zürich)
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Armando Perez-Cueto, Umeå University, Sweden
Florian Nettesheim, International Flavors and Fragrances (IFF), Denmark
Giovanna Fragneto, European Spallation Source, Sweden
Jitendra Mata, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO), Australia
Marianne Liebi, EPF Lausanne & Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland
Marta Martinez- Sans, Institute of Food Science Research, CIAL-CSIC-UAM, Spain
Wim Bouwman, TU Delft, The Netherlands
More to come!
See you in Lund!
/The Northern Lights on Food team
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