Symposium • INRA
CATECHINS AND DIET:
from Sensorial Aspects to Nutrition
January 23, 2008
Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (Cnam), Paris, France

Programme

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8:00 - 8:45  Check-in  and  badge  distribution
 
 
 
8:45 - 9:00  Welcome address
Pr. Xavier Leverve
 
Scientific Director, Human Nutrition and Food Safety, INRA, Paris, France
Dr. Jan Weststrate
 
Director, Unilever R&D, Vlaardingen, The Netherlands
9:00 - 9:30  Opening Lecture: Cultural and
Dr. Claude Fischler
 
Research Director, CNRS, Paris, France
Sociologic Aspects of Catechins in Diets
 
 
 
SESSION I - CATECHINS AND ASTRINGENCY: CHEMISTRY, TECHNOLOGY AND SENSORY ASPECTS
9:30 - 10:00  Chemistry of Catechins
Dr. Augustin Scalbert
 
Research Director, UMR 1019, Joint Research Unit for Human Nutrition, INRA Clermont-Ferrand, France
10:00 - 10:30  Catechin Consumption
Laurence Lebarbanchon
 
Customer Marketing Insight Global
around the world
 
 
Director for the Beverages Category, Unilever France
10:30 - 11:00  Catechins and Astringency in Food
Dr. Véronique Cheynier
 
Research Director, UMR 1083, Joint Research Unit for Oenology, INRA Montpellier, France
11:00 - 11:30  Sensory of Astringency
Dr. Patrick Etiévant
 
Head of Department, Food and Human
and Food Preference
 
 
Nutrition, INRA Dijon, France
11:30 - 12:30  Round  Table  1:  Properties  of  catechins
 
 
 
Paul Colonna
 
Head of Department CEPIA: Science and Process Engineering of Agricultural Products, Nantes, France
Dr. Max Batenburg
 
Skillbase Leader - Flavour Generation & Analysis, Unilever Food & Health Research Institute, Vlaardingen, The Netherlands
12:30 - 2:30   LUNCH BREAK
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SESSION II CATECHINS AND RELATED COMPOUNDS: METABOLIC AND NUTRITIONAL EFFECTS
2:30 - 3:00  Antioxidant and cardiovascular effects
Pr. Balz Frei
 
Director and Endowed Chair,
of tea catechins
 
 
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Linus Pauling Institute, Oregon, USA
3:00 - 3:30  Fat metabolism
Dr. Margriet S. Westerterp-Plantenga
 
Department of Human Biology,
and catechins
 
 
Maastricht University, The Netherlands
3:30 - 4:00  Catechins and metabolic syndrome
Pr. Richard A. Anderson
 
Leader Scientist, USDA, Belstville Human Nutrition Research Center, Washington DC, USA
4:00 - 4:30  Catechins and the brain
Dr. Orly Weinreb
 
Senior Scientist, Eve Topf & National Parkinson Foundation, Technion-Faculty of Medicine, Haifa, Israel
4:30 - 5:30  Round  Table  2:  Metabolic  and  Nutritional  Aspects  of  Catechins
 
 
 
Pr. Bernard Portha
 
Research Director, Nutrition physiology, CNRS - University of Paris 7, Paris, France
Dr. Theo Mulder
 
Research Scientist, Unilever Food & Health Research Institute, Vlaardginen, The Netherlands
Pr. Elias Castanas
 
Professor of experimental endocrinology, University of Crete’s School of Medicine, Iráklion, Greece
5:30 - 5:45  Closing address
Pr. Xavier Leverve
 
 
Dr. Jan Weststrate
 
 
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