30^th European Nutrition and Dietetics Conference

Dr. M.Rajajeyakumar, MBBS, MD (Physiology), MSc Yoga, CCEBDM (PHFI), (PhD), has completed his MD Physiology,(2006-2009) at (JIPMER- An Institution of National Importance under the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Govt. of India). I worked as research assistant (2009-2012) in the Advanced Centre for Yoga Therapy, Education & Research Lab, and JIPMER. I published more than 88 research papers and serving as an editorial board member and expert reviewer of many national and international journals. I have been invited for honorable guest Speaker in Fitness-2015, Philadelphia, USA, and chairperson for the international conference 9 th Indo global summit on cancer therapy -2015, India. I was selected as Speaker and chairperson for 12th,13th& 14 th AsiaPacificMedicalEducationConference-3rd, 4 th & 5 th International Conference on Faculty Development in the Health Professions, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS, Singapore 2015,16 & 17. I presented a scientific research paper in World Diabetes Congress Dec-2015, IDF, Vancouver, Canada. I have been appointed as Advisory Council members of Pure Action, Yoga is Medicine, Austin, TX 78703, USA and organizing committee member of international conferences. I have been honored and received 10 awards, including national and international level. I have been appointed as scientific referee for extramural proposal evaluation and recommendation for funding of project in the field of medicine and biomedical engineering by the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Established through an Act of Parliament: SERB Act 2008, Department of Science & Technology, Government of India.

I have been actively involved in medical, biomedical, and yoga research. My special research experience is in autonomic, cognitive, cardio-respiratory, neurophysiology and medical education. I had trained with basic Physiological procedures including human and animal experimental physiology; pulmonary function test (PFT), autonomic function test (AFT), HRV (heart rate variability), EMG (electromyography), & NCS (nerve conduction study).

Dr. Jyoti D. Vora is a Academician, Head of The Department, Consultant, Trainer, Research Guide And Researcher in Biochemistry And Food Science And Quality Control and her qualifications are M.Sc, PhD, F.S.Sc., MASFFBC, CME (USA), NET Cleared, Nutritional consultant at Raleigh Medical Centre, North Carolina, Certified Functional Foods Scientist(FFC,USA)

Nutrition

Prof. (Dr.) Vasant. N. Pawar, Principal MIT CFT & Dean (F/T), MITADT University

Dept. of Food Science and Tech

Maria-Luz Fernandez is a Professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Connecticut. She is a leading authority on the effects of dietary interventions on dyslipidemias, oxidative stress and inflammation as it relates to cardiovascular disease, metabolic syndrome and type-2 diabetes. She uses the guinea pig model to elucidate the mechanisms by which different types of fat, dietary fiber, carbohydrate restricted diets and antioxidants reduce the risk for hepatic steatosis, systemic inflammation and atherosclerosis. Her research has been supported by the Federal Government, Industry and Food Commodities. She has co-authored 235 peer-reviewed papers, 13 book chapters plus over 240 scientific abstracts. She has been invited to present her research in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Egypt, Ecuador, Korea, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Portugal, Spain, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates. She has graduated 34 PhD and 19 Master’s students who currently have prominent positions in Industry and Academia.

Nutrition and Diet

Teruyoshi Amagai has completed his MD and PhD from University of Tsukuba, Japan and Clinical Practice from the Birmingham Children’s Hospital in UK during 1993 and 1994. He is the Professor of Mukogawa Women’s University since 2007 and has been In-charge of drawing up member, “Dietary Reference Intakes for Japanese (2015), developed by the Ministry of Health Labor and Welfare, Japanese Government. He is the Editorial Member, Nutrition in Clinical Practice, academic journal of American Society for Parent and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN).

Malnutrition and Diet

Lonnie Lowery is an exercise physiologist, Registered Dietitian, and Associate Professor at the University of Mount Union, He has 20 years’ experience in teaching and He has published nearly 20 papers in different types of Journals.

Nutrition and Diet

Kenneth Olson, MD, PhD, is certified in Internal Medicine and in Clinical Nutrition. His PhD is in Nutrition Sciences. He has an active consulting practice of Nutritional Medicine for 30 years in both hospital and outpatient settings. He has taught nutrition to medical students, dental students, postgraduate physicians, and to dietitians as well as community groups. He has published within the field of nutrition and in clinical medicine and animal research directed toward clinical applications. He previously presented posters on Nutrition and AIDS at the National Institutes of Health and at similar meeting in Houston, Texas USA. He has collaborated with Mohammad Khaled, PhD, for many years in the areas of diet composition and the functionality of food associated with clinical outcomes especially involving the immune system and inflammatory processes.

Nutrition and Diet

Aisling Aherne graduated with both a BSc in Nutrition and PhD in Nutritional Biochemistry from University College Cork (UCC). Her career has involved working in nutrition research, science communication, and clinical nutrition support. In April 2016, Aisling joined Kerry Group as Nutrition Science Manager for Europe & Russia. Her role involves working collaboratively with Kerry RD&A, Marketing, Regulatory, and Commercial teams on projects and opportunities. Aisling is also involved in nutrition research projects internally and also externally with various third level research institutes. In February 2018, Aisling presented on a Kerry Health and Nutrition Institute webinar entitled ”Sugar Reduction: formulating for Success”.

Diet, Nutrition and Weight Management

Jong Dae Park received his BS and PhD at the School of Pharmacy, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea in 1980. Following his PhD in 1987, he took a Post-doctoral course at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Osaka University, Japan in 1990. He has worked as a Project Leader at the Division of Ginseng Efficacy, Korea Ginseng & Tobacco Research Institute. His main research interest is in the field of discovery of new drugs and nutraceuticals from natural sources, which covers isolation and characterization of immunomodulatory acidic polysaccharide from red ginseng and development of anti-rheumatoid arthritis and anti-hypolipidemic agents from ginseng and crude drugs. He is now the Project Investigator for the National Research Project related to development of new materials relieving heat shock stress from Korean ginseng.

Malnutrition and Diet

Dr. Francisco Javier SEÑORANS has developed his research and teaching career in Food Science and Nutrition in different Spanish and international Institutions during the last 25 years at Madrid University (CSIC and UAM) and at Uppsala University (Sweden) as Researcher and Lecturer for two years. He is Chemical Sciences PhD and since 2002, he is Profesor Titular (Associate Professor) at Universidad. Autonoma de Madrid (Spain), where he has been responsible of numerous research projects and contracts with industry. Prof. Señorans was in charge of the management as a Co-director and creation of the Joint Institute in Food Science Research (CIAL). He is co-author of more than 110 publications of international impact (SCI) with h index of 33 (Web of Science) and of several international patents transferred to industry. In 2001 he received the Prize "Archer Daniels" granted by the AOCS. At present he directs a research team with a sound record of research contract with food and pharma industry, in projects related with healthy lipids, including omega-3 fractionation and enrichment of fish and marine oils, microalgae components extraction with compressed fluids and supercritical technology, and enzymatic technologies for structured lipids, hipocaloric oils, and polar lipids.

Nutrition and Diet

Maria-Luz Fernandez is a Professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Connecticut. She is a leading authority on the effects of dietary interventions on dyslipidemias, oxidative stress and inflammation as it relates to cardiovascular disease, metabolic syndrome and type-2 diabetes. She uses the guinea pig model to elucidate the mechanisms by which different types of fat, dietary fiber, carbohydrate restricted diets and antioxidants reduce the risk for hepatic steatosis, systemic inflammation and atherosclerosis. Her research has been supported by the Federal Government, Industry and Food Commodities. She has co-authored 235 peer-reviewed papers, 13 book chapters plus over 240 scientific abstracts. She has been invited to present her research in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Egypt, Ecuador, Korea, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Portugal, Spain, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates. She has graduated 34 PhD and 19 Master’s students who currently have prominent positions in Industry and Academia.

Effects of dietary interventions on dyslipidemias, oxidative stress and inflammation as it relates to cardiovascular disease, metabolic syndrome and type-2 diabetes.

Director of the Territorial Nephrology Department – Cagliari Italy from 20 years. Main veiw researches: new and advanced dialytic techniques; prevention of Chronic Renal diseases by nutritional and pre-dialysis teams. spending review of methodologies and pharmaco economy. From 1998 I was using and improving combined nutritional and tailored dialysis; guidelines of water for dialysis, peritoneal dialysis. Reviewer of international journals: Kidney International, Nephron, Nephrology Dialysis and Transplantation, Journal of Nephrology, American Journal of Kidney Disease, Artificial Organs, BMC Nephrology ; Member of Editorial Boarding of Giornale Italiano di Nefrologia, Journal of Nephrology, Minerva Urologica e Nefrologica, Clinical Nephrology.International Journal of Artificial Organs. Member of Italian Society of Nephrology from 1980. Author / co-author of 374 scientific publications and abstracts of Nephrology 68 on med-line.

New and advanced dialytic techniques; prevention of Chronic Renal diseases by nutritional and pre-dialysis teams. spending review of methodologies and pharmaco economy.

F. Javier Señoráns is Doctor of Science and has developed its research and teaching career in the field of Science and Food Technology for more than 25 years in different Spanish research centers and the University of Uppsala in Sweden, and since twelve years is Professor in Food Technology of the Autonomous University of Madrid.Currently, Professor Señoráns heads a research group in Food Science of the UAM, specializing in clean extraction processes for new bioactive ingredients and functional food production and healthy lipid modification and design. He is director of projects and research contracts on natural extracts using clean and synthesis of structured lipids and coauthor of more than one hundred international scientific papers technologies.

F. Javier Señoráns Rodríguez research interest is on clean extraction processes for new bioactive ingredients and functional food production and healthy lipid modification and design

Dr. Minich earned her BA in biology at Augustana University, her MS in human nutrition and dietetics at University of Illinois – Chicago and her PhD at the University of Groningen (Netherlands), where her dissertation topic was Essential Fatty Acid Absorption and Metabolism. She is a fellow of the American College of Nutrition, an Institute for Functional Medicine Certified Practitioner (IFMCP), a Certified Nutrition Specialist, a Certified Nutritionist (Washington State Department of Health) and a registered yoga teacher (Yoga Alliance). Dr. Minich has wide-ranging experience in nutritional science, industry and education, having served as a senior research scientist for General Mills, product formulator and clinical research scientist for Cooke Pharma, vice president for scientific affairs at Metagenics, technical and creative curriculum consultant at the Institute for Functional Medicine, and clinical nutritionist at MetaProteomics, Inc. Functional Medicine Research Center (FMRC). She is a member of the Institute for Functional Medicine Nutrition Board, The American Society of Nutrition Science, the American College of Nutrition and the American Association of Diabetes Educators. Dr. Minich is also the developer of The Detox Summit.

Detoxification and Biotransformation Pathways and Imbalances

Marlena is an established academic with over 95 peer reviewed publications. She is a world reknowned expert on lipids and bone health. She is also a consultant to Fonterra Brands Singapore Ltd engaging in research development and planning, strategic planning and execution of nutritional trials. Marlena obtained her PhD from the Medical University of South Africa, followed by post-doctoral training firstly at the Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg, Germany, followed by period at University of Texas at Austin, USA specialising in protein purification and identification. She thereafter was appointed as senior lecturer and later associate professor in Physiology at University of Pretoria, South Africa. She migrated to New Zealand in 2000 and established bone and nutrition research at Massey. She became Division leader for Human Nutrition in 2005, and was awarded a personal Chair in the same year. Her main focus in research include dairy foods, bioactives and lipids in bone health.

Marlena's current research focusses on food for maintaining bone and joint health and mobility. She plays a key role in the National Science Challenge High Value Nutrition and she has several international collaborators around the area of food for health and mobility.

Dr. R. te Biesebeke has a PhD from the Top Institute Food and Nutrition, the Wageningen University and Research Centre in the Netherlands, a M.Sc. in Applied Molecular Biology from the University of Utrecht, and holds a Biochemistry Engineering degree from Saxion Polytechnics, the Netherlands. He started his career in Biochemical research in the Laboratoire de Biochimie of the Ecole Polytechnique and progressed his career in TI Food and Nutrition, one of the major public-private partnerships within one of the nine Innovation Areas defined by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs as key for economic growth and investment. He evolved his career in roles with progressively evolving responsibilities in global operating businesses of excellence in Nutrition, Bioprocessing, Food and Beverages. Dr. R. te Biesebeke is Lead Scientist at Swiss InnovationWorks, has a track record of peer reviewed publications & patents, and is an invited speaker at conferences and symposia. He is dedicated to improve the quality of life of the general public in developed and developing countries, and more specifically, of infants, children, mothers of child bearing age and high performing athletes.

Nutrition, Metabolism and Performance

Teruyoshi Amagai has completed his MD and PhD from University of Tsukuba, Japan and Clinical Practice from the Birmingham Children’s Hospital in UK during 1993 and 1994. He is the Professor of Mukogawa Women’s University since 2007 and has been In-charge of drawing up member, “Dietary Reference Intakes for Japanese (2015), developed by the Ministry of Health Labor and Welfare, Japanese Government. He is the Editorial Member, Nutrition in Clinical Practice, academic journal of American Society for Parent and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN).

Nutrition and Dietetics, Pediatrics

N Arlappa has completed his MD in Community Medicine from NTR University of Medical Sciences, India. He has been working as Nutrition Scientist in the Division of Community Studies, National Institute of Nutrition (NIN), Indian Council of Medical Research, Hyderabad, India, since 1997. He has 18 years research of experience in the field of Public Health Nutrition and published more than 50 scientific papers in peer-reviewed national and international journals. He has also published 4 book chapters, completed more than 40 research studies and published more than 250 technical reports. He has attended and presented more than 25 scientific papers in national and international conferences/workshops. He is the Faculty Member for the Courses of MPH (NIE), MSc (Nutrition) and PG Certificate course in Applied Nutrition at NIN and currently working as a Deputy Director.

Public Health Nutrition

Prof. Louay Labban has completed his PhD from La Sale University in the USA in 1995 and postdoctoral studies from Lund University in Sweden. He has been a professor of clinical nutrition at A’Sharqiyah University in the Sultanate of Oman since 2014. Before, he taught nutrition courses in different universities in Syria and in the USA and he also worked for well-known pharmaceutical companies studying the drug-nutrient interaction and the effect of newly developed medications on the nutritional status of patients. He has published more than 35 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of scientific journals. Professor Labban is affiliated with American Diabetes Association and American Overseas Dietetic Association ( AODA).

Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics

Director of the Territorial Nephrology Department – Cagliari Italy from 20 years. Main veiw researches: new and advanced dialytic techniques; prevention of Chronic Renal diseases by nutritional and pre-dialysis teams. spending review of methodologies and pharmaco economy. From 1998 I was using and improving combined nutritional and tailored dialysis; guidelines of water for dialysis, peritoneal dialysis. Reviewer of international journals: Kidney International, Nephron, Nephrology Dialysis and Transplantation, Journal of Nephrology, American Journal of Kidney Disease, Artificial Organs, BMC Nephrology ; Member of Editorial Boarding of Giornale Italiano di Nefrologia, Journal of Nephrology, Minerva Urologica e Nefrologica, Clinical Nephrology.International Journal of Artificial Organs. Member of Italian Society of Nephrology from 1980. Author / co-author of 374 scientific publications and abstracts of Nephrology 68 on med-line.

new and advanced dialytic techniques; prevention of Chronic Renal diseases by nutritional and pre-dialysis teams. spending review of methodologies and pharmaco economy.

Maria J Esteve is an expert in food analysis. She has studied the effect of non-conventional conservation treatments (electrotechnologies, high pressures and ultrasounds) on physicochemical characteristics, nutrients and bioactive compounds of foods of vegetal origin. In her last project she studies the valorization of residues of the food industry with the extraction by non-conventional techniques of bioactive compounds (phenolic compounds, ascorbic acid, carotenes) and colored compounds. She also studies the possible interactions between the compounds as well as their bioaccessibility and the effect that different technologies can have. The effect on the health of the consumer is important but also the interest to reduce the environmental impact has increased, reason why it is looked for sustainable processes.

food analysis

Professor Kaj Winther was earlier deeply involved in cardiovascular research and medicine with special reference to thrombosis and haemostasis and worked for a period at the Harvard Medical School, Boston, on the topic “Circadian variation in Myocardial Infraction”. Later in his career he more and more focused on development and clinical testing of herbal remedies and different versions of new foods. His interest in food and herbal remedies is also based on the fact that much prescription medicine including the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID`s) are blamed for serious side effects. As many of our top athletes and more and more of the average population trying to get into a “better shape” is abusing NSAID`s, more attention should be drawn to develop new “pain-killers” without serious side effects. Here some food supplements, herbal remedies and some new foods, might be interesting to future develop – replies Kaj Winther.

Clinical Biochemistry,herbal remedies and their impact on inflammation

Medical doctor specialised in Public Health, PhD in biostatistics and Pharm D, Pr Francois-André Allaert is strongly involved in the field of medical evaluation and especially in the evaluation of health claim. He is managing a human clinical center specifically approved by French health authorities for food supplement and enriched food evaluation. He is also managing the chair for health claim medical evaluation at the burgundy university of Dijon. He is authors of more than 1500 scientific oral communications and publications among which 210 are pubmed referred.

Epidemiology, Clinical Trials, Clinical Pharmacology

Teruyoshi Amagai has completed his MD and PhD from University of Tsukuba, Japan and Clinical Practice from the Birmingham Children’s Hospital in UK during 1993 and 1994. He is the Professor of Mukogawa Women’s University since 2007 and has been In-charge of drawing up member, “Dietary Reference Intakes for Japanese (2015), developed by the Ministry of Health Labor and Welfare, Japanese Government. He is the Editorial Member, Nutrition in Clinical Practice, academic journal of American Society for Parent and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN).

Nutrition and Dietetics, Pediatrics

Asuman Gölgeli has specialized in behavioral physiology and neurophysiology in experimental animals. She has developed anxiety and depression models in mice and rats, starvation and obesity models, as well as food addiction models and has conducted research projects in these fields at Erciyes University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Physiology. Her area of study includes; Evaluation of behavioral parameters , testing of learning and memory, somatic sensations, pain threshold, startle reflex and gender roles in experimental animals.

Evaluation of behavioral parameters, testing of learning and memory, somatic sensations, pain threshold, startle reflex and gender roles in experimental animals.

Fernando Cordido was born in A Coruña, Spain. He qualified in Medicine and Surgery (mark: excellent) and obtained his PhD (summa cum laude) at the Univer¬sity of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, in 1980 and 1990, respectively. He made his Specialization in Endocrinology and Nutrition at the Fundacion Jimenez Diaz, Autonoma University, Madrid, Spain during 1982-1985. Since 1986 he works as specialist in endocrinology and nutrition in the Spanish National Health Service, since 1990 at the Hospital A Coruña, Spain. He works as Associate Professor since 1989, as Professor at the University of A Coruña since 1999. During 1992 he was Honorary Visiting Registrar at the Department of Medicine, University Hospital of Wales, UK. Presently he is Professor (Full) of Endocrinology and Nutrition, University of A Coruña, Spain and Specialist in Endocrinology and Nutrition, Hospital A Coruña, A Coruña, Spain.He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed scientific articles, books and book chapters. He has received 10 scientific awards. He has received continuous research support as principal investigator over the last 20 years from different agencies.

His main research interest is Pathophysiology of Obesity clinical and experimental. Neuroendocrinology and Pituitary diseases. Growth hormone and ghrelin regulation and actions. Clinical Diabetes.

F. Javier Señoráns is Doctor of Science and has developed its research and teaching career in the field of Science and Food Technology for more than 25 years in different Spanish research centers and the University of Uppsala in Sweden, and since twelve years is Professor in Food Technology of the Autonomous University of Madrid.Currently, Professor Señoráns heads a research group in Food Science of the UAM, specializing in clean extraction processes for new bioactive ingredients and functional food production and healthy lipid modification and design. He is director of projects and research contracts on natural extracts using clean and synthesis of structured lipids and coauthor of more than one hundred international scientific papers technologies.

F. Javier Señoráns Rodríguez research interest is on clean extraction processes for new bioactive ingredients and functional food production and healthy lipid modification and design

Christine Brombach is since 2009 lecturer at the Institute of Food and Beverage Innovation at Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland. She received a degree in home economics and nutrition from the University of Giessen, Germany and a Master of Science in Nutrition with a major in gerontology from Manhattan, KS, USA. She did her PhD at the University of Giessen, Germany on the topic of “eating behaviour in the life course of women over the age of 65 years”. She was project coordinator of the Nutrition Survey II at the Max Rubner Institute, Karlsruhe in Germany before she moved with her family to Switzerland.

Food Sociology and Human Nutrition

N Arlappa has completed his MD in Community Medicine from NTR University of Medical Sciences, India. He has been working as Nutrition Scientist in the Division of Community Studies, National Institute of Nutrition (NIN), Indian Council of Medical Research, Hyderabad, India, since 1997. He has 18 years research of experience in the field of Public Health Nutrition and published more than 50 scientific papers in peer-reviewed national and international journals. He has also published 4 book chapters, completed more than 40 research studies and published more than 250 technical reports. He has attended and presented more than 25 scientific papers in national and international conferences/workshops. He is the Faculty Member for the Courses of MPH (NIE), MSc (Nutrition) and PG Certificate course in Applied Nutrition at NIN and currently working as a Deputy Director.

Public Health Nutrition

Mario Ciampolini directed the Gastroenterology Research Unit, a third level referral center in the department of Pediatrics of the University of Florence (Meyer hospital) for 40 years. He worked at the Cornell University for a joined research with the University of Florence on energy expenditure in children.

Gastroenterology, Initial Hunger, Pediatric Diseases and Nutrition

Guillermo J. Reglero Rada is Doctor in Chemistry (1985). Full Professor of Food Sciences at the University Autonoma de Madrid (1999) and Senior Researcher of Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, CSIC (on leave). He works in a research group on food and health. He has directed 5 projects of the National Plan of R&D, 3 projects Innpacto and 70 industrial projects in collaboration with companies. Since 2005 he has coordinated a Program of Activities in Technology funded in three calls for the Comunidad de Madrid and composed of groups of 10 research centers and hospitals. He has participated in projects of the EU Framework Program, as well as Consolider and Cenit Ingenio 2010 Programs. Currently he is involved in a project of the Strategic National Consortia Program Research (CIEN). He is author over 200 publications of international impact and 2 licensed patents in exploitation. In 2001 he received the "Archer Daniels" Award from the American Oil Chemists Society and in 2008 the Prize of the Spanish Society of Gastrononía as Best Spanish Researcher in Food Science. Between 1993 and 1994 he worked as Technical of Industrial Projects for Centro para el Desarrollo Tecnológico Industrial (CDTI). Between 2002 and 2006 he was the Manager of the Food Science and Technology Program of the National Plan of R&D. Between 2005 and 2010 he was a member of the Steering Committee of the UAM-CSIC Instituto de Investigación en Ciencias de la Alimentación, CIAL. Currently he is the Director of IMDEA Food Institute.

food and health

Federico Mallo is Full Professor of Physiology-Endocrinology at the University of Vigo (UVigo). He leads the group of the Laboratory of Endocrinology of the Centre for Biomedical Research of UVigo, and coordinates the Master of Nutrition and Doctorate of Endocrinology at the University of Vigo, is Delegated Director of the Meixoeiro Nurse School, member of the Galician Health Council and member of the Directors Committee of the Spanish Society for Endocrinology and Nutrition (SEEN), leading the continuous training program.

Federico Mallo Ferrer main research interest is in Hormone measurement in biological fluids and tissues, Molecular biology, Metabolic cages, High resolution animal imaging, Primary & cell line cell culture, Functional testing of exercise capacities and Anthropometric and nutritional assessment.

Dr. Guadalupe Garrido Pastor is Professor of “Exercise Physiology” and “Nutrition and Ergogenic Aids in Sports” at the Technical University of Madrid (UPM). She has been teaching and researching at this Institution in the Faculty of Sport Sciences for more than 30 years. She has been a nutritional consultant to high-level athletes in a variety of sports, including Paralympic basketball players. Presently she is involved in a nutrition and physical activity intervention in Madrid, evaluating child growth and development, as well as measuring the relationship between physical activity level, nutritional patterns and body composition.

Nutrition and physical activity intervention, evaluating child growth and development, as well as measuring the relationship between physical activity level, nutritional patterns and body composition.

Kristian Buhring Bonacich is the head of the department of public health in Catholic University of the Most Holy Conception. His basic interest is on sports Medicine, Nutritional Biochemistry, Nutrition and Dietetics.

Sports Medicine, Nutritional Biochemistry, Nutrition and Dietetics

Eileen Kennedy is the Dean of the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University and was the first Director of USDA's Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion. Kennedy holds an undergraduate degree from Hunter College, two master's degrees from Pennsylvania State University, and a Doctor of Science in Nutrition from Harvard's School of Public Health. Kennedy has long been involved in the academic arena of nutrition conducting research and teaching at Tufts, Columbia University, Cornell University and Johns Hopkins University. In 2008, Dr. Kennedy was named president of the "Smart Choices" board. “Smart Choices” is a front of label nutrition benchmarking system, a program whose criteria are based on government dietary guidelines and widely accepted nutritional standards.

Assessing the health and nutrition impacts of policies and programs; nutrient density and diet diversity; interventions for obesity prevention.

Dr. Neeta Singh has completed his PhD from Oregon State University followed by MBA in International Affairs and is a Registered Dietitian. Dr. Singh serves as Chair of Nutrition Program with School of Methemetics, Science & Engineering at University of Incarnate, San Antonio, Texas. Her initial research was in artificial intelligence applications in areas of food aid distribution. From past 7 years Dr. Singh has is working on various food sustainability projects as means of improving nutritional status among rural population in the Republic of Tanzania. She has presented her work at various international venues, published in books and has been serving as an editorial board memeber of several international journals.

Addressing the Role of Proximal Determinants of Undernutrition, Bukoba Rural, Republic of Tanzania

Beraat Özçelik, after graduation from Ege University in 1990, Food Engineering Department, has gained her Ms and PhD degrees from ITU Food Engineering Department. She worked as visiting scholar at Ohio State University Food Science and Technology Department, for her post-doctorate study. Having a number of scientific national and international publications, her research studies focused on functional foods and nutraceuticals, health effects of bioactive food compounds, nanoencapsulation and bioavailability. To date, she worked as coordinator or researcher in many EU projects, and conducted TUBITAK and other national projects. Having scientific committee memberships in Turkish Food Codex Commitee and some foundations, she has taken place in Editorial Boards of Scientific journals and in organizing committee of international congress. Being a former Head of Food Engineering Department and Rectorate advisor, Prof. Dr. Beraat Özçelik is actively working as Dean of the Faculty.

Research studies focused on functional foods and nutraceuticals, health effects of bioactive food compounds, nanoencapsulation and bioavailability.

Mihalis holds a Personal Chair in Nutrition & Toxicology at the School of Life Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, UK. He has research expertise in the areas of molecular toxicology, molecular & biochemical nutrition and human carcinogenesis as evident by a number of peer-reviewed publications. He serves at the Editorial Board of a number of peer-reviewed journals whereas in the past he has been a Marilyn Gentry Fellow of the American Institute for Cancer Research & World Cancer Research Fund. Finally, he is a recipient of a number of research awards including a Marie Curie International Reintegration Grant and a Nutricia Research Foundation International Training Fellowship.

Molecular toxicology, molecular & biochemical nutrition and human carcinogenesis.

Prof/Dr Jagat R. Kanwar has received his PhD in 1992 from Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India. Before joining Deakin University, Australia, in 2006, he was a Senior Scientist in the University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. Dr Kanwar, group leader of the Nanomedicine-Laboratory of Immunology and Molecular Biomedical Research has a national and international reputation in investigating fundamental and applied molecular aspects of cancer and chronic inflammation. Currently, his major field if interest are nanomedicine based delivery systems for therapy/diagnosis, biotechnology, protein engineering of therapeutic proteins and find their mechanism of actions. He has successfully completed his Administrative responsibilities as Head of Nanomedicine in the Centre for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Biosciences (BioDeakin), Institute for Technology & Research Innovation (ITRI), Deakin University. He is serving as an editorial member of several reputed journals in the field of Biochemistry, Nanobiotechnology, Nanomedicine, Cancer and Immunology. He has authored more than 85 research articles, 12 book chapters and 2 books, and secured more than 10 patents. He is the Member of Editorial Board for 12 international journals and a nominated member of more than 18 national and international societies including American Nano Society and American Society of Nanomedicine.

investigating fundamental and applied molecular aspects of cancer and chronic inflammation. Currently, his major field if interest are nanomedicine based delivery systems for therapy/diagnosis, biotechnology, protein engineering of therapeutic proteins and find their mechanism of action

Dr. Gaspar Ros Berruezo is Professor of Human Nutrition and Food Science (including Food Safety) at the University of Murcia (UM), serving this Institution for more than 25 years. He has been Post-Doc Fulbright Scholar in 1989-90 at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, USA as visiting professor. Project leader of the VITALIS Centre for Research in Food Science, Human Nutrition and Health in the Mediterranean area, under construction. Research interest is to functional foods and ingredients, the metabolism to nutritional functionality (including bioavailability and omics) for normal growth and development on infants, and to prevent non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as cardiovascular diseases or obesity.

functional foods and ingredients, the metabolism to nutritional functionality (including bioavailability and omics) for normal growth and development on infants, and to prevent non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as cardiovascular diseases or obesity.

CPGM Lisette de Groot, Professor of Nutrition and Ageing at the Division of Human Nutrition at Wageningen University, the Netherlands. She was trained in nutrition, physiology and epidemiology at the Wageningen University. With academic posts at several at University departments She Has Gained twenty-five years of research experience in the field of nutrition and health of elderly people, both in nutritional epidemiology (including eg SENECA, Survey in Europe on Nutrition and the Elderly; EURRECA European micronutrient recommendations aligned; HALE; Nuage; Chances) and in intervention studies in old age. Her research interests center around the role of nutrition in the maintenance of health in old age with due attention for nutritional ways to slow down aging related functional decline.

role of nutrition in the maintenance of health in old age with due attention for nutritional ways to slow down aging related functional decline

Francesco Menichini is full Professor in Phytofarmacy at Department of Pharmacy, Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Calabria, Italy. He has published more than 200 papers in international journals and 115 communications at national and international congress and 6 Chapters in book series. He is referee of several international journals and Institutions.

Phytochemicals, bioactive compouns, antioxidants

Marica Bakovic completed BSc in Chemistry and PhD in Biological Chemistry at the University of Alberta. She received post-doctoral awards from Medical Research Council and Alberta Heritage Foundation. Before coming to the University of Guelph, she worked in the area of molecular and cell biology of lipid metabolism at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Alberta. Currently, she is Professor in the Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences at the University of Guelph. Dr. Bakovic has a long-lasting interest in nutrition and metabolism, especially in the area of regulation of membrane phospholipids, fatty acids, and methyl-group donors.

nutrition and metabolism, especially in the area of regulation of membrane phospholipids, fatty acids, and methyl-group donors

Dr. Alba Naudí has completed her PhD in Biomedical Sciences in the area of physiology at the Faculty of Medicine in the University of Lleida in 2010. Nowadays, she is professor in the Experimental Medicine Department from the University of Lleida, teaching Nutricionists, Biomedical and Medical students. Her field of research has focused on the study of the aging process and neurodegenerative diseases from the point of view of oxidative stress and how the nutritionals interventions can modulate this process. She has published more than 50 papers in reputed journals and has served as a peer reviewer for a number of scientific journals.

Study of the aging process and neurodegenerative diseases from the point of view of oxidative stress and how the nutritionals interventions can modulate this process