Scientific Programme
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Poster Session 1 (19 May 2026, all day):
posters with ID numbers 1–173. -
Poster Session 2 (20 May 2026, all day):
poster ID 51 and posters with ID numbers 175–339.
| 07:30 – 08:30 | Participant registration |
| 08:30 – 09:00 | Official opening of the Conference (Aula of Gdańsk University of Technology) |
| 09:00 – 10:00 | ORAL COMMUNICATIONS Topic: Oral Processing and Digestion Chairs: Adam Macierzanka and Didier Dupont |
| 9:00 | Ciarán Forde (Wageningen University & Research, the Netherlands), Understanding digestion in children: How swallowed food bolus properties evolve from ages 6 to 12 compared to adulthood. (ID 67) |
| 9:15 | Esther Staes (KU Leuven, Belgium), From bite to metabolite: how in vivo and in vitro oral processing of bean-based wraps with distinct microstructures affect starch digestion. (ID 25) |
| 9:30 | Vincent Mathieu (INRAE, L’Institut Agro, France) Investigating the role of oral physiology in inter-individual variability of particle texture perception. (ID 150) |
| 9:45 | Dan Liu (Wageningen University & Research, the Netherlands), Does age matter? Oral processing of plant-based foods shows limited differences between young and old adults. (ID 103) |
| 10:00 – 10:10 | Conference group photo (in front of the Main Building) |
| 10:10 – 10:50 | Coffee break + Poster session 1 (Main Building, Fahrenheit Courtyard) |
| 10:50 – 12:15 | ORAL COMMUNICATIONS Topic: Oral Processing and Digestion Chairs: Ciarán Forde and Markus Stieger |
| 10:50 – 11:30 | PLENARY LECTURE Miriam Clegg (University College Cork, Ireland), Why Mouth Matters: How Oral Processing Shapes Intake Across the Lifespan. |
| 11:30 | Martine Morzel (INRAE, L’Institut Agro, France), Saliva modulates the impact of tannins on the mucus layer of intestinal cells. (ID 62) |
| 11:45 | Zhen Liu (Wageningen University & Research, the Netherlands), Do inter-individual differences in eating rate influence faecal particle size, gut microbiome composition and functionality in humans? (ID 225) |
| 12:00 | Susana Delgado (IPLA-CSIC, Spain), Peptide Profile and Allergenicity Assessment of Simulated Infant Formula Digests. (ID 78) |
| 12:15 – 13:00 | ORAL COMMUNICATIONS Topic: Food Digestion and Its Effect on the Bioaccessibility and Bioavailability of Nutrients and Bioactives Chairs: Ciarán Forde and Markus Stieger |
| 12:15 | Natalia Perez Moral (Quadram Institute Bioscience, UK), Starch bioaccessibility, glycaemia and gut hormone responses: Insights from a human naso-enteric intubation study of chickpeas. (ID 233) |
| 12:30 | Daniela Freitas (Teagasc Food Research Centre, Ireland), Perfect matchmaking: food pairing to target gastric starch digestion and modulate postprandial glycaemia in healthy adults under free-living conditions. (ID 290) |
| 12:45 | Camille Dugardin (Université de Lille, France), Intestinal sensing of dietary proteins and its impact on glucose absorption. (ID 61) |
| 13:00 – 14:30 | Lunch break + Poster session 1 (Main Building, Fahrenheit Courtyard) |
| 14:30 – 16:40 | ORAL COMMUNICATIONS Topic: Food Digestion and Its Effect on the Bioaccessibility and Bioavailability of Nutrients and Bioactives Chairs: Tara Grauwet and Leslie Couedelo |
| 14:30 | Daniëlle W.R. Wessels (Wageningen University & Research, the Netherlands), Structural Differentiation of Tuna and Algae Oil and Functional Impact of DHA Carriers on Bioaccessibility, Intestinal Uptake, and Cell Incorporation. (ID 269) |
| 14:45 | Isidra Recio (CSIC-UAM, Spain), In silico screening method for discovering novel candidate peptides for CaSR activation in porcine duodenal digests. (ID 197) |
| 15:00 | Marianna Tagliasco (University of Udine, Italy), Intact plant tissues in a whole meal reduce nutrient digestibility and colonic fermentation: evidence from an ileostomy study. (ID 198) |
| 15:15 | Sara da Silva (University of Porto, Portugal), Anthocyanin-rich pigmented wheat: gastrointestinal digests reveal distinct immune-peptidomic and phenolic profiles with reduced gluten immunogenicity. (ID 144) |
| 15:30 | Rozenn Le Foll (INRAE, L’Institut Agro, France), pH variation in the stomach and duodenum affects calcium bioaccessibility: an in vitro study using the 3-compartment DIDGI digestion simulator. (ID 55) |
| 15:45 | Corentin Lannuzel (Université Paris-Saclay, AgroParisTech, INRAE, France), Ileal protein digestibility and quality of faba bean extrudate and honey chlorella in healthy humans. (ID 168) |
| 16:00 – 16:40 | PLENARY LECTURE Emmanuelle Reboul (C2VN, INRAE, Inserm, Aix-Marseille University, France), New insights on factors influencing fat-soluble micronutrient bioavailability. |
| 16:40 – 17:30 | Coffee break + Poster session 1 (Main Building, Fahrenheit Courtyard) |
| 17:30 – 18:45 | ORAL COMMUNICATIONS Topic: Food Digestion and Its Effect on the Bioaccessibility and Bioavailability of Nutrients and Bioactives Chairs: Pasquale Ferranti and Jens Brockmeyer |
| 17:30 | Leila Zafra (CIAL, Spain), Impact of enzymatic hydrolysis on the in vitro digestibility and insulinotropic activity of plant protein sources. (ID 80) |
| 17:45 | Marzia Giribaldi (CNR - Institute of Sciences of Food Production, Italy), Digestion-Resistant Immunity: New Evidence from Human Milk Digestomics. (ID 265) |
| 18:00 | Valérie Micard (Institut Agro-Montpellier & INRAE Montpellier, France), Formulation, in vitro digestion, sensory acceptability and nutritional potential of climate-smart gluten-free pasta. (ID 251) |
| 18:15 | Joana Costa (University of Porto, Portugal), Modulation of Mollusk Allergenicity by Food Processing and Gastrointestinal Digestion: A Multi‑Species Assessment. (ID 204) |
| 18:30 | Madeline Muziot (PNCA, INRAE, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, France), Impact of a vegetarian diet on plant-protein digestibility and metabolism across lifespan. (ID 174) |
| 19:00 – 21:00 | Welcome Reception at Gdańsk University of Technology (Main Building, Hevelius Courtyard) |
| 08:00 – 09:00 | Participant registration |
| 09:00 – 10:00 | ORAL COMMUNICATIONS Topic: Food Digestion and Its Effect on the Bioaccessibility and Bioavailability of Nutrients and Bioactives Chairs: Beatriz Miralles and Marta Martínez Sanz |
| 9:00 | Isabel Ferreira (University of Porto, Portugal), Integrating Digestion Kinetics into Acrylamide Risk Assessment in Cookies via the Semi-Dynamic INFOGEST model. (ID 184) |
| 9:15 | Tanguy Saviard (INRAE, L’Institut Agro, France), Goat milk improves intestinal barrier function and lactase expression in a quadricellular model of intestinal epithelium after dynamic in vitro digestion. (ID 22) |
| 9:30 | Yubexi Correa (CIAL, Spain), Impact of seaweed-derived polysaccharides on protein digestion in in vivo models. (ID 10) |
| 9:45 | Sébastien Marze (INRAE, France), Bioaccessibility and associated concepts: what to use, what to avoid, what’s left to define? (ID 59) |
| 10:00 – 10:40 | Coffee break + Poster session 2 (Main Building, Fahrenheit Courtyard) |
| 10:40 – 12:50 | ORAL COMMUNICATIONS Topic: Advances in Digestion and Absorption Models Chairs: Gail Bornhorst and Elena Maria Arranz Gutierrez |
| 10:40 – 11:20 | PLENARY LECTURE Stéphanie Blanquet-Diot (Université Clermont Auvergne, France), New in vitro models of the small intestine to study microbiota: Bridging the gap between the bench and the human gut. |
| 11:20 | Lotti Egger (Agroscope, Switzerland), ISO DIS 24223 | IDF 253 - In vitro digestion protocol for the determination of protein digestibility and in vitro digestible indispensable amino acid score. (ID 26) |
| 11:35 | Chloé Beltramo (Université Clermont Auvergne, France), Innovative human gastric and small intestinal model simulating differential gastric emptying of real-size food particles and ileal microbiota. (ID 134) |
| 11:50 | Olivia Menard (INRAE, L’Institut Agro, France), Towards an international consensus infant in vitro digestion model for different ages: from prematurity to maturity. (ID 123) |
| 12:05 | Pablo Gallego-Lobillo (University of Valladolid, Spain; Aarhus University, Denmark), A comparative assessment of rat small intestine extract and purified brush border membrane vesicles from pig to study polyphenol digestion. (ID 283) |
| 12:20 | Gabriel Thomassen (Danone Research & Innovation, the Netherlands), A Novel in Vitro Real‑Time Digestion, Absorption and Hepatic Utilization Caco‑2/HepG2 model Links Infant Milk Lipid Structure to Metabolic Fate. (ID 335) |
| 12:35 | Elva Gonzales-Nieto (INRAE, L’Institut Agro, France), Brush Border Membrane Vesicles as a Supplementary Step Process in the In Vitro Gastrointestinal Digestion Model INFOGEST: Consequences on the Proteolysis. (ID 215) |
| 12:50 – 14:00 | Lunch break + Poster session 2 (Main Building, Fahrenheit Courtyard) |
| 14:00 – 15:30 | ORAL COMMUNICATIONS Topic: Advances in Digestion and Absorption Models Chairs: André Brodkorb and Ilona Kłosowska-Chomiczewska |
| 14:00 | Sponsored Presentation │ Olaf Heckert (InnoGI Technologies, the Netherlands), Modeling Human Digestion In Vitro: TIM Upper GI for Nutrition Applications. (ID 77) |
| 14:15 | Ana Blanco-Doval (Agroscope, Switzerland), Behind the scenes of INFOGEST Quant: insights into the step-by-step protocol for protein digestibility and DIAAS determination. (ID 121) |
| 14:30 | Shibo Ma (The University of Melbourne, Australia), An in-vitro gastrointestinal model for weaning infants and its performance on protein digestibility under liquid and solid dairy food matrices. (ID 94) |
| 14:45 | Sondos Hejazi (University of Naples “Federico II”, Italy), The missing link in digestion models: A high-resolution functional blueprint of the Caco-2 human brush border interface. (ID 249) |
| 15:00 | Celien Derboven (KU Leuven, Belgium), Population-specific in vitro digestion: how altered digestion conditions relevant for people with obesity and after bariatric surgery impact proteolysis. (ID 53) |
| 15:15 | Steven Le Feunteun (INRAE, L’Institut Agro, France), In silico prediction of postprandial gastric emptying half-times in humans, as measured by MRI: Influence of meal properties. (ID 83) |
| 15:30 – 16:10 | Coffee break + Poster session 2 (Main Building, Fahrenheit Courtyard) |
| 16:10 – 18:05 | ORAL COMMUNICATIONS Topic: Physicochemical and Imaging Techniques for Characterising Food Digestion Chairs: Paul Smeets and Luca Marciani |
| 16:10 – 16:50 | PLENARY LECTURE Werner Weitschies (University of Greifswald, Germany), Food-Drug Interactions: Lessons learned from MRI Imaging. |
| 16:50 | Jean-Baptiste Cavin (Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences, Nestlé Research, Switzerland), Rethinking Lactose Malabsorption: Digestive Response to a Low‑Lactose, High Galacto‑Oligosaccharides Milk Assessed by MRI in Healthy Chinese Adults. (ID 89) |
| 17:05 | Maja Musse (INRAE, France), Probing digestion of bread and fruit at the scale of a food piece using MRI. (ID 64) |
| 17:20 | Roseanne Minderhoud (Wageningen University & Research, the Netherlands), Measurements of redox balance and pH along the gut using a miniaturized ingestible sensor. (ID 98) |
| 17:35 | Maria de las Nieves Siles Sanchez (Aarhus University, Denmark), Unravelling the speciation and structural dynamics of heme iron during digestion by x-ray absorption spectroscopy. (ID 69) |
| 17:50 | Vincent Mathieu (INRAE, L’Institut Agro, France), When milk meets cocoa, coffee and tea: hindered coagulation and favored gastric emptying of milk proteins in a biomimetic in vitro digestion system (NERDT). (ID 151) |
| 20:00 – 24:00 | Gala Dinner at Gdańsk Old Town (the Baltic Philharmonic, Address: Ołowianka 1, 80-751 Gdańsk) |
| 09:00 – 10:55 | ORAL COMMUNICATIONS Topic: Role of Gut Microbiota in Digestion Chairs: Isidra Recio and Myriam Grundy |
| 9:00 | Edoardo Capuano (Wageningen University & Research, the Netherlands), Production of Colonic Microbial Metabolites from Different Protein Sources Using Human Ileal Digesta and a Dynamic Model of Colon Fermentation. (ID 142) |
| 9:15 | Thomas Van Hecke (Ghent University, Belgium), Mycoprotein inclusion in hybrid meat products attenuates oxidative reactions during digestion and modulates colonic microbial activity in rats. (ID 314) |
| 9:30 | Jonna Koper (Lesaffre Institute of Science and Technology, France), Targeting the gut-bone axis: In vitro effects of probiotic S. cerevisiae CNCM I-3856 on the microbiota of patients with osteoporosis and healthy controls. (ID 149) |
| 9:45 | Brunette Katsandegwaza (University of Liège, 4000 Liège, Belgium), In-vitro dynamic gastrointestinal models for the prediction of complex gut microbiome-product interactions in microbial, food and pharmaceutical research. (ID 112) |
| 10:00 | Sponsored Presentation │ Arturs Ābols (Cellbox Labs Ltd., Latvia), Modeling microbiota – host interactions using anaerobic gut-on-chip system. (ID 340) |
| 10:15 – 10:55 | PLENARY LECTURE Kieran Tuohy (University of Leeds, United Kingdom), Role of Gut Microbiota in Digestion and its potential to influence “Nutri-Kinetics”. |
| 10:55 – 11:30 | Coffee break (Main Building, Fahrenheit Courtyard) |
| 11:30 – 12:45 | ORAL COMMUNICATIONS Topic: Role of Gut Microbiota in Digestion Chairs: Steven Le Feunteun and Lotti Egger |
| 11:30 | Cost Action Presentation │ Stéphanie Blanquet-Diot (Université Clermont Auvergne, France), Advancing in vitro colon model for understanding gut microbiota-host interactions: the INFOGUT cost action CA23110. (ID 176) |
| 11:45 | Xiaona Tian (Ghent University, Belgium), Glycation of meat during processing and gastrointestinal digestion modulates digestibility and gut microbial composition, fermentation and immune responses. (ID 192) |
| 12:00 | Giulia Di Filippo (University of Udine, Italy), Enzymatic hydrolysis extent of pea proteins shapes gut microbiota metabolism and short-chain fatty acid production after simulated digestion. (ID 312) |
| 12:15 | Roseanne Minderhoud (Wageningen University & Research, the Netherlands), Protein fermentation biomarkers in plasma and urine vary between protein sources during a randomized fully controlled dietary intervention. (ID 244) |
| 12:30 | Paulo Berni (Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Human Microbial Biotransformation of Brazilian Berry Anthocyanins under Obese and Eutrophic Conditions: An INFOGEST-Based MS/MS Metabolomic Approach. (ID 156) |
| 12:45 – 13:45 | Official summary & Closing, Awards presentation |
| 13:45 – 14:45 | Lunch break (Main Building, Fahrenheit Courtyard) |
| 15:00 – 18:00 | Infogest Scientific Network – Working group (WG) meetings |
| 15:00 – 16:30 | WG1 (Conference Room) WG4 (Main building, Room 300) WG5 (Chemistry A building, Room 112) WG7 (Chemistry C building, Room 1.4) |
| 16:30 – 18:00 | WG2 (Conference Room) WG3 (Main building, Room 300) WG6 (Chemistry A building, Room 112) WG8 (Chemistry C building, Room 1.4) |
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Sponsors
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Honorary Patronage Rector Gdańsk University of Technology
Honorary Patronage Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry Gdańsk University of Technology
Honorary Patronage Mieczysław Struk The Marshal of The Pomeranian Voivodeship