September 5, 2013

Food, Nutrition and Health

Manchester Institute of Biotechnology (Interactive Map)


 

Time Speaker
10.30 Coffee on arrival
11.00 Clare Mills (Institute of Inflammation and Repair & Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, The University of Manchester)
What makes a protein an allergen? Mass spectrometry methods for characterising allergens in foods
11.30 Gwen LeGall (BBSRC Institute of Food Research, Norwich)
Metabolite profiling in food and nutrition research
12.00 Malcolm Driffield (The Food and Environment Research Agency, Sand Hutton, York)
The chemical safety of food and food contact materials – the role of high resolution mass spectrometry
12.30 Lunch
13.30 Mike Buckley and Soyab Patel (Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester)
Protein mass spectrometry for food and feed analysis
14.00 Phil Johnson (Institute of Inflammation and Repair & Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, The University of Manchester)
Selection of targets for allergen analysis
14.30 Gavin O’Connor (IRMM, Joint Research Centre, Geel, Belgium)
Reference methods for allergen analysis
15.00 Justin Marsh (Institute of Inflammation and Repair & Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, The University of Manchester)
GMO food crops – demonstrating substantial equivalence to conventional crops through analysis of N-glycans
15.30 Anna Nicolaou (Manchester Pharmacy School, The University of Manchester)
Mediator Lipidomics; dissecting the role of lipids in inflammation
16.00 Close