FRI SEPT. 26 h. 9.00 am – h. 6.00 pm
Ending Hunger and Malnutrition
How science and technology can help
| Morning session chaired by: Chris Bowler, Department of Biology, Ecole Normale Superieure, France and Giorgio Poli, Department of Animal Pathology, Hygiene and Public veterinary Health, University of Milan, Italy. |
| Safe and Healthy Food: whose responsibility? |
Lord John Krebs, Former Food Standards Agency; Jesus College, Oxford, UK |
| Boosting sustainable crop productivity |
Dirk Inzé, Department of Plant Systems Biology, Ghent University, Belgium |
| Prospects for reducing crop losses to plant disease |
Jonathan Jones, Sainsbury Laboratory, UK |
| Fisheries and global changes impacts on marine ecosystems and global food security |
Daniel Pauly, Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Canada |
| Biotechnology to support food sustainability in the developing Countries |
Tilahun Yilma, International Laboratory of Molecular Biology for Tropical Disease Agents, University of California, Davis, USA |
| From the wisdom of ancient India to the global food and healthcare markets- Can India make it? |
Villoo Morawala-Patell, Avesthagen, India |
| Afternoon session chaired by: Romano Marabelli, Department of Public Veterinary Health, Nutrition and Food Safety, Italian Health Ministry and Giorgio Morelli, National Research Institute for Food and Nutrition |
| Overview on nutrition in China, past and present |
Chunming Chen, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, China |
| Biofortification, a cost-effective intervention for micro-nutrient deficiency |
Ingo Potrykus, Golden Rice Board and Network; Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland |
| Tackling chronic diseases: the potential of preventive medicine through improvements to diet |
Cathie Martin, John Innes Centre, UK |
| The Future of Foods in a World of Personalized Health |
Bruce German, Food Science Department, University of California, Davis, USA |
| Obesity and Diabetes: Excess Food or Toxic Environment |
Barbara Corkey, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, USA |
Italian Association for Cancer Research Lecture
Food, Life Span regulation and Cancer
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Pier Giuseppe Pelicci, Department of Experimental Oncology, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy |
| Panel Discussion |
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