First announcement and call for abstracts for the First FoodEnTwin workshop

Theme of the workshop:

Food and Environmental –Omics

Date: 20 – 21 June 2019.

Venue: Belgrade, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and University of Belgrade

Organizers: FoodEnTwin consortium

Abstracts should be submitted to foodentwinwp3@chem.bg.ac.rs till May 31

The registration form can be downloaded here:

Registration form for the First FoodEnTwin workshop

Registration form and abstract (max 400 words) should be submitted to foodentwinwp3@chem.bg.ac.rs till May 31

Invited speakers:

Session 1: Omics and the environment

Katarina Smiljanic, University of Belgrade-Faculty of Chemistry, Belgrade, Serbia

Branko Sikoparija, BioSense Institute-Research Institute for Information Technologies in Biosystems, Novi Sad, Serbia

Michelle Epstein, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Bruno De Meulenaer, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Session 2: Food and nutrition proteomics

Alan Mackie, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

Danijela Apostolovic, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.

Paola Roncada. The Magna Græcia University of Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy

Session 3: Modern analytical approaches

Svetlana Murzina, Institute of Biology, Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Karelia, Russian Federation

Sureyya Ozcan Kabasakal, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

Topics:

Food Proteomics, Lipidomics and Metallomics

Analytical methods for profiling food pollutants – inorganic, organic, microplastics

Modifications of food proteins, lipids and DNA

Health effects of food components modifications;

Novel in vitro and animal models for predicting effects of environmental stress.

Scientific committee: Tanja Cirkovic Velickovic, Paola Roncada, Andrea Urbani, Irena Vovk, Bruno de Mueleunare, Karin Hoffman Sommergruber, Marianne van Hage

Organizing committee: Sanja Grguric-Sipka, Dusanka Milojkovic-Opsenica, Tatjana Parac-Vogt, Andreja Rajkovic, Michelle Epstein, Danijela Apostolovic, Mirjana Macvanin

Registration necessary but free of charge. It covers registration bag, lunches and refreshments

Registration for gala dinner on June 20: 25 EUR

Note: To the grant holders of the Metallomics summer school an additional grant to attend the workshop will be offered providing with an accepted abstract for the workshop. Grant will cover accommodation in Belgrade until June 22.