Programme
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8:00 - 8:45 Check-in and badge distribution
8:45 - 9:00 Welcome address
Scientific Director, Human Nutrition and Food Safety, INRA, Paris, France
Director, Unilever R&D, Vlaardingen, The Netherlands
9:00 - 9:30 Opening Lecture: Cultural and
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
Research Director, UMR 1019, Joint Research Unit for Human Nutrition, INRA Clermont-Ferrand, France
10:00 - 10:30 Catechin Consumption
Customer Marketing Insight Global
around the world
Director for the Beverages Category, Unilever France
10:30 - 11:00 Catechins and Astringency in Food
Research Director, UMR 1083, Joint Research Unit for Oenology, INRA Montpellier, France
11:00 - 11:30 Sensory of Astringency
Head of Department, Food and Human
and Food Preference
Nutrition, INRA Dijon, France
11:30 - 12:30 Round Table 1: Properties of catechins
Head of Department CEPIA: Science and Process Engineering
of Agricultural Products, Nantes, France
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
Director and Endowed Chair,
of tea catechins
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Linus Pauling Institute, Oregon, USA
3:00 - 3:30 Fat metabolism
Department of Human Biology,
and catechins
Maastricht University, The Netherlands
3:30 - 4:00 Catechins and metabolic syndrome
Leader Scientist, USDA, Belstville Human Nutrition Research Center, Washington DC, USA
4:00 - 4:30 Catechins and the brain
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
Research Director, Nutrition physiology, CNRS - University of Paris 7, Paris, France
Research Scientist, Unilever Food & Health Research Institute, Vlaardginen, The Netherlands
Professor of experimental endocrinology, University of Crete’s School of Medicine, Iráklion, Greece
5:30 - 5:45 Closing address