Webinar INAF X Avignon University

News 15 November 2024

Sustainable food: biomolecules, alternative proteins and cardiometabolic health.

As part of the development of a new collaboration between members of theInstitute for Nutrition and Functional Foods (INAF) - Université Laval in Quebec, researchers from the Université d'Avignon and INRAE involved in the IMPLANTEUSCome and discover their expertise and research platforms, mainly in the fields of sustainable food, plant and alternative proteins, and cardiometabolic health. You can also find out more about the IMPLANTEUS programme, its initiatives and its international funding programmes (e.g. research visits, thesis grants [cotutelle]).
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The programme includes presentations by eight researchers on their research expertise and a discussion at the end of the webinar.

15h00 Introduction by Yves Desjardins and Philippe Obert

15h05 Presentations by the researchers :

Alain Doyen and Guillaume BrissonUniversité Laval
Sustainable food processing system, description and examples of cross-functional projects
Carine Le BourvellecUniversity of Avignon
Presentation of the UMR SQPOV - Safety and Quality of Plant Products, its three teams and an example of a cross-disciplinary project
Yves DesjardinsUniversité Laval
Subjects: artificial digestion models, metabolomics and polyphenols
Jean-François LandrierAix-Marseille University
Presentation of the Centre for Cardiovascular and Nutrition Research (C2VN), including the Micronutrients and Metabolic Diseases team
Presentation of the metabolomics (Biomet) and metabolic phenotyping (PhenoMARS) platforms
Jean-Philippe Drouin-ChartierUniversité Laval
Linking clinical research in nutrition to nutritional epidemiology using metabolomics
Agnès VinetUniversity of Avignon
Presentation of the Experimental Cardiovascular Physiology Laboratory and examples of projects
Vanessa KuentzUniversity of Avignon
Platform 3A: metabolomic analysis

16h20 Discussion period (moderated by Jean-Philippe Drouin-Chartier)To open the discussion period, Éliane Picard-Deland and Sophie Antoine present a number of financing programmes of interest on both sides of the Atlantic.

16h45 End of the webinar