Research Interest: Dry-cured meat products, Fatty acid profile, Amino acid composition, Physico-chemical properties, Sensory characteristics, Microbiology

Charalampos Proestos has a BSc in Chemistry, University of Ioannina, Greece and MSc in Food Science at Reading University, U.K. He obtained his Ph.D. in Food Chemistry at Agricultural University of Athens (AUA), Greece, where he continued his post doc working on natural antioxidants on programmes funded by EU and Greece. After further training at Wageningen University (The Netherlands), he worked as a Research Associate at AUA. He worked as a Chemist for the Hellenic Food Authority (EFET), being food industry auditor and supervisor of the Chemical laboratory in Athens accredited with ISO 17025. Currently he is Professor at the Department of Chemistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and director of the laboratory of Food Chemistry. He has published more than 160 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of more than 10 repute journals.He is Member of the European Committee of the Division of Food Chemistry, European Association of Chemical and Molecular Sciences (EuChemS). His research field focuses on Food antioxidants, foodomics and food contaminants.

Research Interest: 1. Plant bioactive compounds extraction and instrumental analysis e.g. phenolic acids, flavonoids 

2. Determination of antioxidant capacity of constituents from plant derived foods (olive oil, wine, plants, mushrooms etc) 

3. Food contaminants determination (metals e.g. Sn, Cd, Cu, biogenic amines) 

4. Food Allergens determination by ELISA (new field) 

5. GMOs in milk and milk products by PCR (new field) 

Dr. Xinhua Qi is a distinguished professor of College of Environmental Science and Engineering at Nankai University. Prof. Qi received his B.S. in environmental chemistry from Nankai University in 1998, and Ph.D. in environmental science from Nankai University in 2003. He worked as a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow at Tohoku University (Sendai, Japan) from Oct. 2006 to Nov 2010. He was promoted to a full professor in 2011 at Nankai University. His research interest mainly focuses on green processes for biomass conversion into value-added materials and chemicals. He has published more than 160 peer reviewed scientific papers, and these papers have been cited over 6300 times with H index 44. He also has co-authored over 20 patents, 5 books and 3 book chapters on environmental engineering and biomass resources utilization. His research work has been awarded 2 items of first-class prizes and 1 item of second-class prizes of provincial and ministerial level. Prof. Qi has been selected as leading talent in the National Ten Thousand Talents Plan, Shennong Talent Plan from Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, New Century Excellent Talent Program from Ministry of Education, and was supported by the Outstanding Youth Science Foundation of Tianjin.

Research Interest: Biomass; Agricultural Wastes; Biofuel; Lignocellulose; Value-Added Chemicals

Research Interest: Soil, Plants, Crop, Soil Science, Agricultural Microbiology, Crop Production, Fertilizers, Plant Biology, Agronomy, Plant Microbe Interactions, Molecular Biology, Inoculation.

Research Interest: Ethnobotany, food plants, medicinal plants, nutraceutical plants, home gardens, local knowledge

Research Interest: Rice, Sorghum, Transgene, Bioinformatics, Abiotic Stresses, Protein Quality.

Research Interest: Food Security,  Environmental Science ,  Waste Management ,  Agricultural Development

Research Interest: Biometrology, Bionanotechnology, Bioenergy, Biomass, electron, light and atomic force microscopy

Vincenzo Alterio was born in Naples, Italy. He studied chemistry at the University of Naples “Federico II” where he obtained his university degree in 2001, followed by completing a Ph.D degree in Chemistry in 2004. Subsequently he carried out his postdoctoral training at the Institute of Biostructures and Bioimaging (IBB-National Research Council, CNR) and in 2006 was guest researcher at the Biochemistry Institute of the University of Luebeck (Germany). From 2009 he is a researcher at the Institute of Biostructures and Bioimaging in Naples, being part of the structural biology group. His expertise lies in the field of X-ray crystallography and his research interests are mainly focused on the study of biological macromolecules having medical and/or biotechnological interest.

Research Interest: Structural biology, X-ray crystallography, proteins, protein-ligand complexes. 

Research Interest: Anatomy, Biochemistry, Biology, Nutrition, Physiology and Public Health. 

Research Interest: Gut microbiome; Synbiotics; Microbial evolution; Food safety; Human nutrition; Epidemiology

Biography: Mengfei Peng achieved his Ph.D. in Biological Sciences (joint concentration of molecular/cellular biology and animal sciences) from the University of Maryland, USA, where he worked on procommensal strategies against enteric bacterial infections. Currently, he is continuing his research as a postdoctoral scientist focusing on the development of novel probiotics in modulation of gut microbiome, prevention/control of enteric diseases, and improvement on human health.

Number of publications: 14

Research Interest: Agronomy, Agricultural Entamology

PhD in Cellular and Molecular Biology from the Federal University of Paraná (2006); Master in Microbiology from the State University of Londrina (1998) and graduated in Biological Sciences from the State University of Londrina (1995). Full Professor at the Federal Technological University of Parana (UTFPR) since 2007. CNPq productivity fellow (2008-2011). Reviewer of journals: Foodborn pathogens and disease; Mycopathology; Africa Journal of Microbiology Research; The Open Microbiology Journal; The Brazilian Journal of Microbiology; Semina - Agrarias; Semina - Biology and Health; Archives of Oral Biology; Mycoses; Journal of applied Microbiology. Editorial Board member of the Journal of Microbiology and Laboratory Science and South Asian Journal of Research in Microbiology. Member of the London Journal Press.Works on the following topics: general and medical microbiology; food microbiology; biotechnology. It acts specifically in: analysis of microbiological indicators of water; analysis of virulence determinants; resistance of microorganisms to antimicrobials and heavy metals; analysis of probiotic strains of Enterococcus and of acidic bacterias; analysis of antimicrobial peptides (bacteriocins); biofilm formation. Member of the Araucaria Foundation Area Advisory Committee. Researcher at Fundação Araucária. Professor of academic master's programs: Food Technology and Environmental Engineering.

Research Interest: food microbiology; microbiology; food control

URL: CV: http://lattes.cnpq.br/6007117281861512

Number of Publications: 65 articles

Ali Anıl Suleymanoglu has been a researcher at the Department of Food Hygiene and Technology of Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa University since 2018. His most significant research topics are related to the investigation of foodborne pathogens, molecular microbiology, and one health. His research also focused on microbiota and antibiotic resistance.

Research Interest: Mycotoxins, especially Ochratoxin A in Animal Nutrition