Symposium programme
A provisional version of the Symposium Programme is now live.
Symposium overview
The 13th Fera/JIFSAN symposium will bring together industrial stakeholders, academic and government scientists to explore the potential impact of 'omics' technologies in the food sector. Genomic and post-genomic technologies, such as metabolomics and proteomics, have been at the forefront of biotechnology in the health, pharmaceutical and crop science sectors. However, the potential for the use of these technologies in the food sector is still largely unrealised.
In this meeting, international speakers from government, academia, research institutes and industry will present work that demonstrates the step changes that 'omics' technologies can deliver in their respective sectors. Posters and presentations will be invited on applied aspects of integrated 'omics' approaches and more generally in the uses of non-targeted analysis in supporting sustainable and healthy food production. The technical aspects of the symposium will be supplemented by consumer and policy perspectives relevant to the food industry and regulators.
Symposium Themes:
- 'Omics' technologies: state of the art
- Application of 'omics' technologies in food science
- Chemicals in food chain
- Biotraceability
- New product development
- Sustainable food production
- Potential of 'omics' technologies: industry and regulatory perspectives
Workshops:
Keynote speakers:
Marc Allard - Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration, USA
Charles Baxter - Trait Project Lead - Vegetable Seeds, Syngenta, UK
Adrian Charlton - Head of Chemical and Biochemical Profiling, the Food and Environment Research Agency, UK
Robert Edwards - Chief Scientist, the Food and Environment Research Agency and Chair, Crop Protection, Centre for Novel Agricultural Products, Department of Biology, University of York, UK
Roy Goodacre - School of Chemistry and Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, University of Manchester, UK
Elaine Holmes - Professor of Chemical Biology, Imperial College London and Head of Biomolecular Medicin, UK
Clare Mills - Professor, School of Translational Medicine, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, University of Manchester, UK
Steve Musser - Office of Regulatory Science Director, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration, USA
Ben van Ommen - Principal Scientist and System Biology programme Director, TNO (Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research), Zeist, The Netherlands
Rainer Schuhmacher - Associate Professor, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), Austria
Joyce Tait - Scientific Adviser of the ESRC Innogen Centre, Professor at the University of Edinburgh, UK
Jane Thomas-Oates - RSC/EPSRC Chair of Analytical Science, University of York, UK
Julie Wilson - Research Fellow, Department of Mathematics, University of York, UK
Registration is now open for this event.