Programme Overview

 Sunday, 16 October 2022

19.00 – 22.00 Opening Session (Universiteitshal KU Leuven) with

Registration for conference

Words of Welcome & Welcome Reception

Set-up for exhibition & posters

Monday, 17 October 2022

08.00 – 08.30 Registration for conference (Universiteitshal KU Leuven)

08.30 – 10.30 Session 1: Dietary fibre: What are we talking about?

Opening lecture: Bruce Hamaker (Purdue University, US)

Keynote: Henk Schols (WUR, NL)

10.30 – 11.00 Coffee break, exhibition and poster viewing

11.00 – 12.30 Session 2: Dietary fibres as versatile functional food ingredients

Keynote: Joel Wallecan (Cargill R&D Centre EU, BE)

12.30 – 13.30 Lunch break and exhibition and poster viewing

13.30 – 14.20 Poster viewing

14.20 – 15.30 Session 3: Unravelling the relationship between dietary fibre structure and function

Keynote: Lisa Lamothe (Nestlé, CH)

15.30 – 16.00 Coffee break, exhibition and poster viewing

16.00 – 17.00 Short oral talks

17.00 – 18.00 Session 4: Leveraging dietary fibre for healthier foods

19.00 – 22.00 Networking Dinner and ICC Awards (Faculty Club, Leuven)

Tuesday, 18 October 2022

08.40 – 10.20 Session 5: Dietary fibre fermentation and the microbiome

10.20 – 10.40 Coffee break, exhibition and poster viewing

10.40 – 11.40 Session 6: Healthgrain Forum Session

Nesli Sözer (VTT, FI)

Jan de Vries (Nutrition Soutions, NL)

Klaus Grunert (Aarhus University, DK)

11.40 - 12.10 Panel discussion: What is needed to improve the availability of

high dietary fibre grain-based foods?

12.10 – 13.10 Lunch break, exhibition and poster viewing

13.10 - 14.00 Poster Viewing

14.00 – 15.30 Session 7: Dietary fibre and gut health

Keynote: Boushra Dalile (KU Leuven, BE)

15.30 – 16.00 Coffee break, exhibition and poster viewing

16.00 – 17.40 Session 8: Dietary fibre and metabolic health

Closing lecture: Christophe Courtin (KU Leuven, BE)

17.40 – 18.00 Closing & Awards