Past Events

ILSI Europe hosts, sponsors, and co-organises a variety of scientific events. These include independent symposia, workshops, webinars, hands-on scientific trainings and sessions held as part of the program of larger scientific conferences or professional meetings.

Explore below our past events for recordings, agendas, copies of presentations, meeting summaries and other reports.

Past Events

How Far Can We Control the Severity of Food Allergic Reactions by Controlling Exposure to Allergenic Foods?

15/09/2016 – 16/09/2016

Brussels, Belgium

The objective of this workshop was to understand the relationship between allergen dose and reaction severity, and to assess whether this relationship meets the conditions necessary to allow control of exposure to allergenic foods to limit the occurrence of severe reactions.

ILSI Europe’s Session on ‘Human Microbiome and Health’ at the IUFoST 2016 World Congress of Food Science

24/08/2016

Dublin, Ireland

ILSI Europe’s session on ‘Human Microbiome and Health’ was held at the IUFoST 2016 World Congress of Food Science on 24 August 2016 in Dublin, Ireland.

2nd Workshop on Nutrition for the Ageing Brain

30/06/2016 – 01/07/2016

Copenhagen, Denmark

This workshop was specifically focused on mechanisms of ageing and neuroprotection via nutrients as well as implementation of the available data. Supported by the Nutrition and Mental Performance Task Force.

ILSI Europe Session on “Gut Barrier Function and Microbial Metabolism” at IPC 2016

21/06/2016

Budapest, Hungary

The International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) Europe’s Prebiotics Task Force and Probiotics Task Force organised a session on ‘Gut Barrier Function and Microbial Metabolism’ at the International Scientific Conference on Probiotics and Prebiotics (IPC) 2016 . In this session invited experts introduced recent developments of both task forces with focus on the role of the intestinal barrier in and the impact of microbial metabolite production on health and disease.

Phenotypic Flexibility – A New Concept to Quantify & Optimise Health, and Its Impact on Nutrition Research – NutriTech Final Symposium

13/06/2016 – 14/06/2016

Lisbon, Portugal

The NutriTech project partners organised their final symposium on ‘Phenotypic Flexibility – A New Concept to Quantify & Optimise Health, and its Impact on Nutrition Research’. This symposium exploited the concepts, mechanisms, technologies, quantification, consequences and interventions that shape, maintain, regain and optimise phenotypic flexibility and systems flexibility.

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