Informazione

Grains for feeding the world

Joint ICC/AISTEC Conference at the World Expo Milan 2015
1-3 July 2015 - University of Milan, Italy

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

The Italian Association for Cereal Science and Technology (AISTEC) and the International Association for Cereal Science and Technology (ICC) will co-organize an international conference on “Grains for feeding the world” on the occasion of the EXPO 2015 in Milan (Italy).

The Scientific Committees, made up by well-known scientists and experts worldwide, will shape up a rich and interesting program touching on innovative aspects concerning all cereals, pseudocereals and other grains. A poster session will complement oral presentations together with a Table Top Exhibition.

We would like to invite submission of abstracts for oral and poster presentations online before 20 January 2015. Find guidelines in the Conference website (https://expo2015.icc.or.at/abstract_submission).

In particular, we welcome abstracts concerning the following areas:

§  Security (productivity, population, policy, land, different meaning in different parts of the world)

§  Sustainability (genetic resources, grain omics, waste, monoculture, rotations, organic agriculture, low input fertilization, climate change, carbon and water footprint, etc.)

§  Safety (biotech, postharvest diseases and pest management, toxins, controls, pollution, etc.)

§  Traceability and authenticity (developments in grains and products testing, labels, traditional products, etc.)

§  Processing (strategies to improve quality and safety, improvers and additives, innovations in milling, new approaches for lowering sugars, fats, salt content, etc.)

§  Health and nutrition (whole and refined grains, role of dietary grains in the modulation of microbiota composition, diseases, allergies and intollerances, phytochemicals, etc.)

§  Economics and trading (finances, markets, import-export, infrastructures, collaborations, consumers, etc.)