Programme

Registration
08.30am
Registration
Keynote
09:00am
Welcome address
by NUS Deputy president (Research & Technology) Prof. Liu Bin
Opening address
by Guest of Honor Mr. Chan Chee Weng Damian, CEO of SFA
Keynote
09:15am
Auditorium 2
Plenary Session 1
Keynote
09:55am
Auditorium 2
Plenary Session 1
Break
10.35 am
Tea break
talk
11:00am - 12:30pm
Session 1
11:00am - 11:30am30 mins
Leveraging AI for Precision Flavor Modulator Discovery
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Antonella Di Pizio
Technical University of Munich
11:30am - 11:45am15 mins
11:45am - 12:00pm15 mins
Learning Peptide Taste and Bioactivity from Weak Supervision
155- Dr. Huadong xing
Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
12:00pm - 12:15pm15 mins
12:15pm - 12:30pm15 mins
Vibe Researching: AI-based one person food lab
059-Dr. Ma Peihua
Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
12:00pm - 12:15pm15 mins
Food-Derived Biohybrid Probiotic Extracellular Vesicles for Synergistic Therapy of Inflammatory Bowel Disease
070-Ms Zhao Mengliu
Zhejiang University-College of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science
12:15pm - 12:30pm15 mins
11:00am - 11:30am30 mins
Nutrition and health aging – is meal timing a missing factor?
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Leonie Heilbronn
Adelaide University
11:30am - 12:00pm30 mins
Rethinking Oral Intake and Eating Functions in Aging Societies
Invited Speaker Prof. Kohei Yamaguchi
Institute of Science Tokyo
11:00am - 11:30am30 mins
11:30am - 11:45am15 mins
12:00pm - 12:15pm15 mins
Engineering chitosan–wheat protein scaffolds for bovine satellite cell culture
Uma Tay Jingxin
A*STAR Singapore Institute of Food and Biotechnology Innovation
12:15pm - 12:30pm15 mins
11:00am - 11:30am30 mins
Water Quality, Microbial Communities and Pathogen Risks in Freshwater Aquaculture
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Kek Heng Chua
University of Malaya
11:30am - 11:45am15 mins
12:00pm - 12:15pm15 mins
Shellfish Allergy and Implications for Food Safety: Detection and Management Challenges in a Changing Climate
110-Ms. Janitha Iddagoda
Tropical Futures Institute, James Cook University, Singapore
meal
12:30pm - 01:30pm
Lunch + Poster viewing and judging
talk
01:30pm - 03:00pm
Session 2
01:30pm - 02:00pm30 mins
Engineering Food Structures for Sustainable Food Systems
Keynote Speaker:Prof. Cordelia Selomulya
UNSW Sydney
02:15pm - 02:30pm15 mins
02:30pm - 02:45pm15 mins
Green Extraction of Rice Bran Protein by Alkaline DES Assisted with Aqueous Ultrasound Pretreatment: Optimization and Characterization via RSM and ANN
269-Mr. Nagarajan J.
National Institute of Food Technology, Entrepreneurship and management-Thanjavur (NIFTEM-T)
01:30pm - 02:00pm30 mins
Engineering Hybrid Plant–Dairy Protein Gels for Sustainable Food Systems
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Song Miao
Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University
02:30pm - 02:45pm15 mins
Recombinant D-Allulose 3-Epimerase for D-Allulose Biosynthesis
067-Dr. Xie Xiaofang
National University of Singapore
02:45pm - 03:00pm15 mins
3D Printing Pectin Ink Structures in Gellan Gum-Based Beverages
192-Dr. Dhanya George
National Institute of Food Technology, Entrepreneurship and Management, Thanjavur (NIFTEM - T)
01:30pm - 02:00pm30 mins
After Foodborne Pathogens Acquire Antimicrobial Resistance: Biological Changes from a Risk Assessment Perspective
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Xiang Wang
University of Shanghai for Science and Technology
02:00pm - 02:15pm15 mins
02:15pm - 02:30pm15 mins
Programmable Host-Pathogen Interface Peptides for Rapid Electrochemical Detection of Listeria monocytogenes
287-Prof. Shiomo Yitzchaik
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Singapore-HUJ Alliance for Research and Enterprise (SHARE)
01:30pm - 02:00pm30 mins
Vitamin D- mediated immunomodulation and its implications for metabolic diseases
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Sung Nim Han
Seoul National University
02:30pm - 02:45pm15 mins
Dietary tyrosine intake, HPD rs10743187 polymorphism and colorectal cancer risk: a case-control study
308-Mr. Mahamudul Hasan
National Cancer Center - Graduate School of Cancer Science and Policy, Korea
02:45pm - 03:00pm15 mins
Break
03:00pm - 03:30pm
Tea break
talk
03:30pm - 04:45pm
Session 3
03:30pm - 03:45pm15 mins
04:00pm - 04:15pm15 mins
04:30pm - 04:45pm15 mins
Valorisation of food and agricultural waste into sustainable biosurfactant and aviation fuels
Prof. Carol Lin Sze Ki
School of Energy and Environment, City University of Hong Kong
03:45pm - 04:00pm15 mins
04:00pm - 04:15pm15 mins
Comparative Phytochemical Profiling of Floral Extracts and Their Influence on Biogenic Silver Nanoparticle Synthesis for Food Packaging Applications
302-Mrs Sruthy G. Nair
National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management-Thanjavur (NIFTEM-T)
04:15pm - 04:30pm15 mins
03:45pm - 04:00pm15 mins
04:00pm - 04:15pm15 mins
Probiotic fermented beverage as a sustainable food for human health and wellness
307-Dr. Prakash M Halami
CSIR-Central Food Technological Research Institute, India
04:30pm - 04:45pm15 mins
03:45pm - 04:00pm15 mins
04:00pm - 04:15pm15 mins
04:15pm - 04:30pm15 mins
03:30pm - 04:00pm30 mins
04:00pm - 04:15pm15 mins
04:15pm - 04:30pm15 mins
Assessing trifluoroacetic acid risks in food safety
246-Dr. Raymond Shi
Singapore Food agency
Plenary
04:45pm - 05:25pm
Auditorium 2
Plenary session 2
poster session
05:25pm - 05:55pm
Panel discussion
Human health and sustainable nutraceuticals
Moderator: Prof Huang Dejian
award
05:55pm - 06:00pm
Token/Award presentation
Keynote
09:00am
Auditorium 2
Plenary session 3
Keynote
09:40am
Plenary session 3
Break
10:20am
Tea break
talk
11:00am - 12:30pm
Session 4
11:00am - 11:30am30 mins
Next-Gen Packaging for Food
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Eva Almenar
Michigan State University
11:30am - 11:45am15 mins
Advanced Thermal Technologies for Sustainable Rice Parboiling: Impact of Ohmic Heating, Microwave, and Ultrasound Treatments on Rice Quality
275-Prof. Athmaselvi KA
National Institute of Food Technology, Entrepreneurship and Management, Thanjavur (NIFTEM-T)
11:45am - 12:00pm15 mins
Green processing technology for drying of food products using hybrid refractance window dryers
305-Prof. Prabhat K Nema
National institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management, India
12:00pm - 12:15pm15 mins
Cold Plasma: An emerging non-thermal process with diverse applications in food processing
315-Prof. Uday Annapure
Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai
12:15pm - 12:30pm15 mins
11:00am - 11:15am15 mins
12:30pm - 12:45pm15 mins
Chemical Fingerprinting of Philippine Muscovado Sugar for Authentication and Functional Food Valorization
134-Ms Nicole Garcia
University of San Agustin - Center for Natural Drug Discovery and Development
11:00am - 11:30am30 mins
Health claims of functional food – an example from New Zealand
Invited Speaker Prof. Jun lu
University of Auckland
11:30am - 11:45am15 mins
11:45am - 12:00pm15 mins
12:00pm - 12:15pm15 mins
12:15pm - 12:30pm15 mins
11:00am - 11:30am30 mins
11:30am - 11:45am15 mins
11:45am - 12:00pm15 mins
Recycling Cell Culture Media Proteins for Cost-effective Cultivated Meat Manufacturing
072-Dr. Quek Jun Ping
A*STAR Bioprocessing Technology Institute
12:00pm - 12:15pm15 mins
Sustainable and Scalable Bioengineering Strategies for Cultivated Meat
078-Dr. Deepak Choudhury
BTI A*STAR and National Univeristy of Singapore (NUS)
12:15pm - 12:30pm15 mins
12:30pm - 12:45pm15 mins
11:00am - 11:30am30 mins
Emerging mycotoxins: Do we underestimate risk?
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Oliver Watkins
TUMCREATE
11:45am - 12:00pm15 mins
Effect of Continuous Deep Frying on the Formation of Toxic Oxidation Compounds: An Emerging Food Safety Concern
270-Ms. Monisha Chandran
National Institute of Food Technology, Entrepreneurship and Management
12:00pm - 12:15pm15 mins
Applications of ion mobility mass spectrometry to the seafood industry
232-Dr. Qiu Beiying
Bioprocessing Technology Institute A*STAR
poster session
12:45pm - 02:00pm
Lunch + Poster viewing and judging
talk
02:00pm - 03:15pm
Session 5
02:00pm - 02:15pm15 mins
Advances in Scaling and Products of Cell Culturted Fish Meat
273-Associate Prof Zheng Hongwei
Ocean University of China
02:15pm - 02:30pm15 mins
02:30pm - 02:45pm15 mins
02:00pm - 02:30pm30 mins
How can food regulations keep up with the pace of bio-innovation?
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Vince Sewalt
Sewalt Bioconsulting
02:30pm - 02:45pm15 mins
02:45pm - 03:00pm15 mins
03:00pm - 03:15pm15 mins
02:00pm - 02:15pm15 mins
02:15pm - 02:30pm15 mins
02:30pm - 02:45pm15 mins
Metabolic Mechanisms of Higher Alcohols in Alcoholic Beverages: Impacts on Ethanol Catabolism and Hangover Health Risks
Dr. Qingxi Ren
School of Food Science and Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China
03:00pm - 03:15pm15 mins
02:00pm - 02:15pm15 mins
Microalgae: a resilient & dense source of iron
249-Dr. Fabian Abiusi
Sustainable Food Processing Laboratory, ETH Zurich
02:15pm - 02:30pm15 mins
Proteomics-Based Evaluation of Liquid-Cultivated Mycelium as a Sustainable Food Source
225-Dr. Tan Chee Fan
Bioprocessing Technology Institute, A*STAR
02:45pm - 03:00pm15 mins
Research on the Musculoskeletal Health Effects of Yeast Protein
054-Ms. Liang Yu
Huazhong Agricultural University
Break
03.15pm
Tea break
Keynote
03:45pm
Auditorium 2
Plenary session 4
Keynote
04:25pm
Auditorium 2
Plenary session 4
poster session
05:05pm - 05:35pm
Plenary Panel Discussion
Innovations in Food Science and Technology for Future Food Systems
Moderator: Prof Zhou Weibiao
award
05:35pm - 05:45pm
Token/Award presentation
award
05:45pm - 06:00pm
Closing remarks
banquet
06:00pm
NUSS
Conference Dinner