IPFN - Upcoming Events

Specialist Workshops on Healthy Ageing

Wed, 02 May 2012 09:21:21 +0100

May 02, 2012

The day before the College of Medicine's 2012 Annual Conference on Healthy Ageing , the College of Medicine will be running four related specialist workshops. They cover women's health, back pain, anticipating the needs of an ageing population and herbal medicine. The Herbal Medicine workshop might be of special interest to you.

Workshop 4: Herbal medicine. From prescriber to guide? - The herbal self care option (2 May, 14.00 - 17.00)

People understandably feel comfortable contributing to health care on their own terms and often favour approaches that feel natural. Registered herbal medicines, which add pharmaceutical standards and plausible effectiveness, provide almost ideal self care options. There are fundamental health care tasks that are mostly not prescription business.

In this workshop Simon Mills, Dr Michael Dixon and Dr Dick Middleton will look at specific ways you can guide your patients to use herbs to help manage their stress, aches and pains, sleep, digestion, and capacity to cope with life and resist disease.

We will link herbal options to the College of Medicine's Self Care Library to produce practical toolkits that you use straightaway. We will also look at the logistics of using herbal medicine, what the law says, how to find the ones you need and other resources that can help.

More information: http://www.collegeofmedicine.org.uk/annual-conference-optional-workshops

The workshops are part of the College of Medicine 2012 Healthy Ageing annual conference programme at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Just come to the workshops or attend the whole conference and dinner as a package.

2009 Nobel Laureate, international expert in ageing and Telomeres, Professor Elizabeth Blackburn who will be the Conference keynote speaker on 3 May.

See the full conference programme here: http://www.collegeofmedicine.org.uk/sites/default/files/com_conf2012_lowres_pages.pdf

Booking and more information, visit http://www.collegeofmedicine.org.uk/annual-conference-2012 . Enquiries to Linda Leung or Babs Guthrie at conference@collegeofmedicine.org.uk

11th International Hydrocolloids Conference

Mon, 14 May 2012 10:05:03 +0100

May 14, 2012 - May 18, 2012

The 11th International Hydrocolloids Conference is organized by the world-renowned Whistler Center for Carbohydrate Research and will be held at The Stewart Center at Purdue University, Indiana, USA.

This prestigious conference, which has attracted over 300 abstracts, will highlight the latest advances in the hydrocolloid field; in particular, fundamental and applied hydrocolloid research in biological systems related to nutrition, health and bioactivity (e.g. immune system) and technology-based systems.

This is a significant opportunity for you to join academic and commercial scientists from around the world to exchange and discuss new ideas and findings in the study and application of hydrocolloids.

The conference will be covering the following topics:

-Hydrocolloid characterization
-Hydrocolloids for delivery, controlled release, and matrix retention
-Mixed hydrocolloid systems and component interactions
-Nutritive hydrocolloids - structure, function and physiologic effect
-Bioactive polysaccharides
-Protein-based hydrocolloids
-Hydrocolloid nanostructures and technology
-Hydrocolloids and processing
-Rheology of hydrocolloids
-Physicochemical properties - emulsions, encapsulation, gels
-Carbohydrate biomaterials
-Starch, including hydrocolloid interactions

For further information, please visit the following link:

http://www.international-hydrocolloids-conference.com/

6th Central European Congress

Wed, 23 May 2012 14:42:25 +0100

May 23, 2012 - May 26, 2012

6th Central European Congress on Food will accentuate the novel technologies and traditional products for competitive and safe food products for European and global market.The meeting will take place in Hotel PARK, Novi Sad, Serbia, from the 23rd to the 26th of May 2012.The conference and venue offers an excellent opportunity for food industry and equipment suppliers to participate as sponsors and to present their products through Congress Exhibition. Congress topics Scientists, Researchers, Entrepreneurs from Food industries and Equipment designers are invited to present their scientific developments and future potentials through sessions.The emphasis of this year’s Congress will be on the following topics:1. Food Ingredients, Health and Nutrition, Functional Foods2. Food Analysis, Quality and Safety Assurance 3. Food Engineering, Processing and Technology 4. Packaging and Shelf Life, Product Design 5. Food Biotechnology, and Novel Bioproducts 6. Food, Consumers and Sensory Science 7. Traditional Food, Food with Appellation of Origin 8. Food and Feed Chain Management 9. Feed as Challenges for Food Supplier Chain 10. Education, Innovation and Knowledge Transfer.for further information visit http://cefood2012.rs/

16th World Congress of Food Science and Technology

Sun, 05 Aug 2012 14:59:33 +0100

Aug 05, 2012 - Aug 09, 2012

The "16th World Congress of Food Science and Technology " of IUFoST, will be held for the first time in Latin America at “Foz do Iguaçu” (Iguazu), Parana State, Brazil, August 5-9, 2012.The event aims to provide opportunities for international cooperation, information exchange and discussion among food scientists and technologists around the world. The scientific program is strong and comprehensive, covering key issues in the field of Food Science and Technology.For further details visit the congress website:http://iufost.org.br/Homepage

9th International Phytotechnology Society Conference

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 09:32:10 +0100

Sep 11, 2012 - Sep 14, 2012

The 9th International Phytotechnology Society (IPS) conference, hosted by Hasselt University in Belgium from September 11th to 14th, 2012.Phytotechnologies - plant-based strategies to remediate water, soil and air pollution and provide ecosystem services - have an effective power beyond their science when integrated into our managed landscapes.This conference will bring together scientists, consultants, designers, engineers, builders, regulators, site owners, and site users to explore phytotechnologies to address current and emerging environmental challenges. The conference is organized by the International Phytotechnology Society (IPS) (Jason White (USA), Steven Rock (USA), Elena Maestri (Italy), Renee Stoops (USA), Lee Newman (USA)) and by the Centre for Environmental Sciences of Hasselt University in Belgium (Jaco Vangronsveld, Nele Weyens, Steven Van Passel, Nele Witters, Silvie Daniels, Jan Colpaert, Ann Cuypers)For more information see: www.phytotechnologies.bePlease note that the deadline for the abstract submission is April 1st (2012) and that for the early registration is June 15th (2012).

2012 EFFoST Annual Meeting

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:18:22 +0100

Nov 20, 2012 - Nov 23, 2012

A Lunch Box for Tomorrow : An interactive combination of integrated analysis and specialized knowledge of foodConference Chair: Nathalie GONTARD, Prof. Université Montpellier II and Research Director at INRA (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique).Call for abstracts! Deadline: 30th April 2012Join us at the 2012 EFFoST Annual Meeting which will be held in the beautiful city of Montpellier, France, from the 20-23 November 2012.In 2012, the focus of the EFFoST Annual Meeting is to connect the integrated (broad) and the specialized (focused) views on food to promote health, food security and sustainability for all. To read the Conference Chair’s Welcome Address please click here.The 2012 EFFoST Annual Meeting will provide a significant opportunity for you to join leaders from industry and academia to debate these new challenges and to present your work as a poster or oral presentation.