Symposium

Symposium 'Gastric food digestion: a focus on protein breakdown'

This symposium is organized on the occasion of the PhD defenses of Ruoxuan Deng and Andrea Rivera del Rio.

Organised by	Sensory Science and Eating Behaviour Group
Date	Wed 11 May 2022 09:30 to 11:30
Venue	Aurora, building number 127 Vijfde Polder 1 127 6708 WC Wageningen +31 (0)317 - 48 80 98

9.30 - 9.40	Welcome
	Dr. Paul Smeets (HNH), Dr. Anja Janssen (FPE), Dr. Monica Mars (HNH), Wageningen University
9.40 - 10.10	Breakdown of foods during gastric digestion: Examining the importance of food structure and correlations between in vitro and in vivo studies
	Dr Gail Bornhorst, Faculty of Food Science & Technology and Biological & Agricultural Engineering, UCDavis, US
10.10- 10.30	Gastric emptying and amino acid absorption of pea protein products
	Julia Roelofs, PhD candidate HNH, WUR
10.30 - 10.40	Coffee Break
10.40 - 11.10	The role of food structure in appetite control
	Prof Alan Mackie, School of Food and Nutrition, University of Leeds, UK
11.10 - 11.30	Protein digestibility in the sustainability assessment of protein-rich ingredients and foods: a ‘farm-to-faeces’ approach
	Andrea Rivera del Rio, PhD candidate FPE, WUR

Please register in advance so that we know how many people to expect.

Ruoxuan Deng will defend her thesis "A live
show in the stomach: Monitoring in vitro and in vivo human gastric digestion with MRI" on 11 May 2022 at 13.30.

Andrea Rivera del Rio will defend her thesis “Plant proteins: from processing to digestion” on 12 May 2022 at 11.00.