ZIEL Conference 2025
Research Symposium: Food Processing and Health
What are (highly) processed foods? What effect does food processing have on the nutritional value of food products? How do processed foods act in the human body, influence the human microbiome and ultimately human health?
These are some of the burning questions currently discussed in the field of human nutrition. Addressing these questions is one of the major scientific goals of ZIEL - Institute for Food & Health. The aim of this research conference is to further our understanding of the topic and to discuss these questions with leading experts in the field. Register now and join us for this exciting conference!
Registration
For your free registration to the ZIEL Conference 2025, please use the registration form.
Registration closes on Friday March 28, 2025.
Agenda
| Time | Title | Location | Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00 | Welcome & Introduction | Hörsaal 12 | Dirk Haller |
| Session 1 | |||
| 09:15 | Ultraprocessed Food: From hype to hope | Hannelore Daniel | |
| 09:45 | The legal difficulties of novel food and advertising health benefits | Christina Schröck | |
| 10:10 | Processing the Evidence; Does research support a unique role for UPF’s in Energy intakes | Ciarán Forde | |
| 10:35 | Coffee Break | ||
| 11:00 | Aging and Micronutrients | Tilman Grune | |
| 11:25 | Impact of high protein ultra-processed diet on energy balance and energy partitioning | Anja Bosy-Westphal | |
| 11:50 | Diet-microbiota interactions --- A personnalized point of view | Benoit Chassaing | |
| 12:15 | Lunch Break | ZIEL - Atrium | |
| Session 2 | Hörsaal 12 | ||
| 13:30 | Tanja Schwerdtle | ||
| 13:55 | Functional consequence of diet-microbiome interactions | Dirk Haller | |
| 14:20 | Food processing-born flavor stimuli and its role for humans | Corinna Dawid | |
| 14:45 | Brown fat as a sentinel for healthy eating | Martin Klingenspor | |
| 15:20 | Coffee Break | ||
| 16:00 | Postprandial processing of nutrients by adipocytes | Alexander Bartelt | |
| 16:25 | Panel discussion | ||
| 17:25 | Poster Pitch | ||
| 19:00 | Dinner | ZIEL - Atrium |
| Time | Title | Location | Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|
| Session 3 | |||
| 09:00 | Hörsaal 12 | TBD | |
| 09:25 | Ultra-processed foods and health outcomes: a critical review of the evidence | Sabrina Schlesinger | |
| 09:50 | Transforming Protein Landscape in the Mediterranean- ProxIMed | Özlem Özmutulu | |
| 10:15 | TBD | ||
| 10:40 | Coffee Break | ||
| 11:10 | COPLANT-a new study on plant-based nutrition | Cornelia Weikert | |
| 11:35 | Dietary Maillard reaction products and human health: time for a re-evaluation? | Jana Raupbach | |
| 12:00 | Identifying molecular markers that connect ultra-processed food consumption to diminished brain performance | Thomas Blank | |
| 12:25 | Lunch Break | ZIEL - Atrium | |
| Session 4 | Hörsaal 12 | ||
| 13:30 | Functionalization of food by the gut microbiota: Implications for human health | Sören Ocvirk | |
| 13:50 | Deciphering interactions between food processing and health ― Tracing the metabolic fate of processed food constituents via integrated metabolomics approaches | Michael Gigl | |
| 14:10 | Printed Food | Marius Henkel | |
| 14:35 | Final Remarks | Dirk Haller |
Scientific Image Competition
Have you taken an interesting, exciting or impressive photo in the lab? Then take part in our Scientific Image Competition!
The 5 best photos will be selected from all entries and printed on aluminum Dibond.
A winner will be chosen from the 5 selected photos by all conference visitors and will receive their photo print (worth approx EUR 200) and a EUR 100 bonus.
Please submit your scientific image in maximum quality via e-mail: geschaeftsstelle.ziel(at)tum.de
Poster session
The Conference includes a poster session on day one. Presenters have 2 minutes to pitch their posters to the general audience (please send an electronic copy as well as an abstract to geschaeftsstelle(at)tum.de until March 18). The print version will be on display on a poster wall to allow detailed discussions with the presenter.
A prize of EUR 100 will be awarded to the best poster.
