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Session 1: Scientific Vision of Nutrigenomics: Actual State and Recent Advances

• Food-genes interactions and long-term health: Challenges for science, industry & society
• The future of food and the food of future: What Nutrigenomics brings?
• Nutri-epigenomics: Impact of diet on epigenome remodelling

NutriGenomics & Chronic Diseases Prevention

• Nutrigenomics and Biomarkers: what kind of biomarkers can be used for diet and disease prevention research?
• Overview on Nutrigenomics & Chronic disease prevention: Obesity & Diabetes: Potentials and challenges
• Genomics view of ageing and longevity: 2 sides of the coin
• Antioxidant absorption and genes: Antioxidant intake related to genetic polymorphisms?
• Nutrigenomics and Selenium: Do genetic factors influence selenium metabolism and nutritional requirements?
• Pharmacogenetics & Nutrigenetics: Synergies & differences: A potential for pharmaceutical companies

Session 2: Industrial vision of Nutrigenomics: Innovations, perspectives & limits

• New tools and technologies development
• Metabolomics impact on nutritional research: Innovations & Trends ·Nutrigenomics for research laboratories: What’s new in 2008?
• Other developments in the field of Nutrigenomics: Last advances
  • Health ingredients
  • Functional foods and drinks
  • Animal foods
• Nutrigenomics & Ethic-legal-social issues

Roundtable discussion in the presence of speakers & the scientific committee

Personalized nutrition: New wave for disease prevention and wellbeing: science or fiction?
Synergies and confrontations between the scientific & industrial visions of Nutrigenomics and the place of the consumer