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

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.

Next Generation MRA (Microbiological Risk Assessment) Integration of Omics Data into Assessment

13/05/2016 – 14/05/2016

Athens, Greece

The International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) Europe’s Microbiological Food Safety Task Force, together with International Association for Food Protection (IAFP) and International Committee on Food Microbiology and Hygiene (ICFMH) organised a workshop on ‘Next Generation Microbiological Risk Assessment (MRA) – Integration of Omics Data into Risk Assessment’.

ILSI Europe’s Scientific Sessions at IAFP 2016

11/05/2016 – 12/05/2016

Athens, Greece

ILSI Europe organised three sessions at the International Association for Food Protection (IAFP) 2016 on ‘New Approaches to Chemical Risk Assessment’ supported by the New Approaches to Chemical Risk Assessment Task Force, ‘Risk Assessment or Assessment of the Risk in Fresh Produce? That’s the Question’ supported by the Microbiological Food Safety Task Force and ‘Managing Allergens: How do we Assess the Risk and Protect Allergic Consumers?’ supported by the Food Allergy Task Force.

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