13^th Wartburg Symposium on Flavor Chemistry & Biology

Eisenach, Germany, October 03-06, 2023

Organizers are: Prof. Dr. T. Hofmann, Prof. Dr. H. Zorn, Prof. Dr. C. Dawid, Prof. Dr. V. Somoza

Cutting-edge research in taste and smell returns once more to the beautiful “Hotel on the Wartburg” in Eisenach, Germany. Since its inception in 1978, the Wartburg Symposium on Flavor Chemistry & Biology has convened every three years. It is today firmly established as an internationally leading, top-tier forum for distinguished scientists and rising stars from academia and industry to discussing cutting-edge advances, emerging challenges, and sweet spots emerging at the vivid intersection of odor/taste chemistry and sensory science with biology, neurophysiology, nutrition, post-genomic (genetics, biotechnology) and advanced imaging technologies.

The organizers and the Wartburg Stiftung Eisenach would like to invite experts in different areas of smell, taste, and health-related research. The scientific program will comprise keynote lectures given by distinguished scientists from academia and industry from around the world, scientific talks, flash poster presentations, and posters in the following main subject areas:

• Functional flavor genomics & biotechnology
• Flavor generation & precursors
• Next-generation technologies in molecule discovery and analytics
• Chemosensory perception and signal processing
• Food-born bioactives and chemoreceptor-mediated health prevention
• Flavor systems: molecular decoding, interactions and perception

Read more: https://www.wartburg-symposium.de/

ACS National Meeting & Expo; San Francisco, CA; August 13-17 – 2023

Symposium: Advances in Food Chemical Informatics, Knowledge Bases and Databases

Purpose of Symposium

There have been many recent advances in the application of informatics to food chemicals to enhance the rate of discovery. Cheminformatics methods, from fields such as drug discovery, are finding new utility across the agricultural and food chemical enterprise. Consumer and health/metabolic informatics from the web have also entered the food research scope. Advanced machine learning and network analysis have been reported that are revealing links to extrinsic value of food chemicals in consumer acceptance and health and nutrition. The goal of this symposium is to present the latest research in the areas above.

Topics

• Flavor Chemical Space
• Food Chemical Ontologies
• Natural Food Bioactive Discovery
• Food Epigenetic Modulator Discovery
• Anti-diabetics food Chemical Discovery
• Physical properties predictions
• Food Chemical Database Curation
• Food Chemical QSAR Development
• Authenticity and origin
• Knowledge-graphs/semantics/consumers

Submit an Abstract: www.acs.org/meetings/acs-meetings/fall-2023/presenters/submit-an-abstract.html

For further information, contact the organizers:

Brian Guthrie: Research Fellow, Cheminformatics Lead, Cargill, Inc, Physical and Sensory Sciences, 2301 Crosby Road, Wayzata, MN 55391, brian_guthrie(at)cargill.com

David Wild: Professor of Informatics and Computing, Crisis Informatics Track Director, Director, Crisis Technologies Innovation Lab (CTIL); Director, Integrative Data Science Lab (IDSL), djwild(at)indiana.edu

Andreas Dunkel: Head of Research Group Integrative Food Systems Analysis & Head of Subunit Databases, Leibniz Institute for Food Systems Biology at the Technical University of Munich, a.dunkel.leibniz-lsb(at)tum.de

German workshop on
structural predictions of membrane proteins

From ion channels to G-protein coupled receptors

November 26th–27th, 2019 - Forschungszentrum Jülich (GERMANY)

By gathering together top-level German researchers in the field of GPCRs, ion channels and computational biology, this meeting will discuss challenges and perspectives of molecular simulation- and bioinformatics-based  predictions of G-protein coupled receptors’ and ion channels’ structural determinants. Molecular simulations studies of ion channels and transporters will also be presented. The workshop receives support from the DynIon DFG research group, which is devoted to promoting unattainable synergy between computer simulations and experiments to the study of ion channels and transporters. The workshop will open with a lecture from Prof. Michael Klein, whose pioneering studies on membrane-bound proteins and ion channels have paved the way to our understanding of a variety on these fascinating proteins, from nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, to voltage-gated cation channels, Influenza M2 proton channel, and many others. Read more...

Speakers

Program

Venue

The Organizers

Paolo Carloni (Forschungszentrum Jülich and RWTH Aachen University)
Antonella Di Pizio (Leibniz-Institute for Food Systems Biology at the Technical University of Munich)