Invitamos a Ud. a participar de los seminarios que dictará el Dr. Seppo Salminen (Functional Foods Forum, Universidad de Turku, Finlandia) sobre microbiota intestinal, salud y regulación de probióticos en la Unión Europea. El Dr. Salminen participó en el desarrollo de alimentos conteniendo Lactobacillus GG, una bacteria probiótica ampliamente estudiada y utilizada en diferentes alimentos a nivel mundial.

La participación es gratuita pero con cupo, por cuestiones de espacio. Solicitar inscripción al email gvinde@hotmail.com indicando nombre, apellido, profesión y lugar de trabajo.

Los seminarios serán en inglés, sin traducción simultánea y cuentan con el auspicio de la Secretaría de Ciencia y Técnica y la Secretaría de Relaciones Internacionales de la Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Milkaut S.A. y Danone Argentina S.A.

Programa:

09:00-09:15 hs Acreditación
09:15-10:15 hs Microbiota and health, with emphasis in obesity.
10:15-10:45 hs Coffee break
10:45-11:45 hs Issues of probiotics and probiotics related to health claims in the European Union.
Lugar y fecha: Aula 9 (tercer piso) de la Facultad de Ingeniería Química (Santa Fe), Viernes 13 de Octubre de 2017 a las 09:00 hs.

A continuación encontrará una breve reseña de la trayectoria del Dr. Seppo Salminen

Professor and Director, Functional Foods Forum, University of Turku, Turku, Finland

• Studies in Food Science and Nutrition at Washington State University, USA with MS Degree, Food Chemistry and Microbiology at University of Helsinki, Finland  with  MSc degree, and PhD in Biochemistry and Toxicology at the University of Surrey, United Kingdom
• Visiting Professor (Food Safety) BOKU University, Vienna, Austria; Visiting Professor, Nutritional Toxicology, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia (several terms)
• Registered toxicologist (Finland and Eurotox), Fellow of the ANZFA
• Member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences and Letters
• Research interests: intestinal microbiota and health, microbiota modulation, probiotics, prebiotics, functional foods, novel foods, food and health, EU Food Regulations
•  Member or past member of the editorial board of British Journal of Nutrition, Journal of Food Protection, Trends in Food Science and Technology, Bioscience and Microflora, Marcel Dekker Series in Food Science and Nutrition, Journal of Nutrition Science, Food and Nutrition Research
• Member of following specialized societies: ASM, IFT, SOMED, FSNR
• Board Member and Vice-President of ISAPP (International Scientific Society of Probiotics and Prebiotics
• Expert member in several regulatory committees on food and health (Finland and EU) including  the European Food Safety Authority NDA Scientific Panel (9 years)l, Fellow of the ANZFA
• Receiver of several international prizes e,g,  Grand Prix du Yoplait, The Swiss Award for Modern Nutrition, the IDF-Institut Pasteur Elie Metchnikoff Prize
• Over 400 refereed publications in food and health, microbiology, probiotics, prebiotics, intestinal microbiota, food safety and functional foods, several book chapters and text books in probiotics, prebiotics, food additives and functional foods
• Evaluation panel member for the Swedish Council of Environment and Food (FORMAS 2010-2013), Assessor for the Danish Council for Strategic Research 2009-2011, 2014; Evaluation Panel Member, Science Foundation Ireland (twice); Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) evaluation panel member 2012, Member of the  Academy of Finland Council of Biosciences and Environment (2016—2018)