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2020 Foodie Technical Program
** Program is subject to change - Last Update 10/31/2020
All Times are in Eastern Time.
| Start Time | End TIme | Wednesday, November 4th |
| 10:00 AM | 10:30 AM | Keynote Speaker: Engineering the Nanostructure and Functionality of Edible Fats Alejandro Marangoni, University of Guelph |
| 10:30 AM | 10:35 AM | Hallway Chats and Stetch Break |
| 10:35 AM | 12:10 PM | Session 1: Food Structure and Function Session Chair: Carrie Hartford, Jenike & Johanson, Inc. |
| 10:35 AM | 10:50 AM | Invited Speaker: Food As We Knew It Michael Rogers, University Of Guelph |
| 10:50 AM | 11:05 AM | Invited Speaker: Continuum Mechanics Based Modeling of Fluid and Species Transport in Food Systems Pawan Singh Takhar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 11:05 AM | 11:20 AM | Invited Speaker: Emerging Technologies to Enhance Starch Performance Pedro E. D. Augusto, University of São Paulo |
| 11:20 AM | 11:30 AM | High Pressure SANS Studies on the Interaction between Green Tea Polyphenols and a Serum Albumin Susana Teixeira, University of Delaware, National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| 11:30 AM | 11:40 AM | Advancing Our Understanding of Starch Biopolymers at the Molecular Level Using Atomistic Modeling Benjamin Coscia, Schrodinger |
| 11:40 AM | 12:00 PM | Live Q&A Panel |
| 12:00 PM | 12:05 PM | Hallway Chats and Stetch Break |
| 12:05 PM | 12:50 PM | Session 2: Food and Health Session Chair: Gonul Kaletunc, Ohio State University |
| 12:05 PM | 12:20 PM | Invited Speaker: Hang Xiao, University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| 12:20 PM | 12:35 PM | Invited Speaker: Nitin Nitin, UC Davis |
| 12:35 PM | 12:50 PM | Live Q&A Panel |
| 12:50 PM | 1:30 PM | Poster Session |
| Start Time | End TIme | Thursday, November 5th |
| 10:00 AM | 12:30 PM | Session 3: Innovation and Emerging Technologies in Food Processing Session Chair: Bala Balasubramaniam, Ohio State University |
| 10:00 AM | 10:15 AM | Invited Speaker: Serafim Bakalis, University of Nottingham |
| 10:15 AM | 10:30 AM | Invited Speaker: Ralph Fritsche, NASA |
| 10:30 AM | 10:45 AM | Invited Speaker: Growing Structural Biopolymers into Advanced Materials for Food Security and Food Safety Benedetto Marelli, MIT |
| 10:45 AM | 11:00 AM | Invited Speaker: Real-Time Data for Improved Brewing Efficiency Glen Fox, University of California |
| 11:00 AM | 11:15 AM | Invited Speaker: William Grieco, RAPID Manufacturing Institute |
| 11:15 AM | 11:20 AM | Hallway Chats and Stetch Break |
| 11:20 AM | 11:30 AM | The Use of Static Optics FTIR for Online Control of Food Processing Jonathon Speed, Keit Spectrometers |
| 11:30 AM | 11:40 AM | Convective, Microwave and Microwave-Vacuum Drying of Barley MALT Gisandro R. Carvalho, University of São Paulo (USP) |
| 11:40 AM | 11:50 AM | Evaluation of the Bactericidal Properties of Plasma-Activated Water Under Storage Deepti Salvi, North Carolina State University |
| 11:50 AM | 12:00 PM | Ultra Shear Technology for the Preservation of Food and Pharmaceutical Liquids V. M Balasubramaniam, Ohio State University & Edmund Ting, Pressure BioSciences Inc |
| 12:00 PM | 12:30 PM | Live Q&A Panel |
| 12:30 PM | 12:35 PM | Hallway Chats and Stetch Break |
| 12:35 PM | 1:10 PM | Session 4: Food Sustainability and Security Session Chair: Keisha Wilson McDowell, DuPont Nutrition & Biosciences |
| 12:35 PM | 12:45 PM | Effect of Bruising and Storage Temperature on the Quality of Tomato Pankaj B. Pathare, Sultan Qaboos University |
| 12:45 PM | 12:55 PM | Local Farming; Integrating Food Production into the Urban Metabolism Darlene Steward, National Renewable Energy Laboratory |
| 12:55 PM | 1:10 PM | Live Q&A Panel |
| 1:10 PM | 2:00 PM | RAPID Manufacturing Institute Workshop |
| Start Time | End TIme | Friday, November 6th |
| 10:00 AM | 10:30 AM | Networking Session |
| 10:30 AM | 11:25 AM | Session 5: Food Safety Session Chair: Deepti Salvi, North Carolina State University |
| 10:30 AM | 10:45 AM | Invited Speaker: Carmen Moraru, Cornell University |
| 10:45 AM | 11:00 AM | Invited Speaker: Bruce Applegate, Purdue University |
| 11:00 AM | 11:10 AM | Effect of Process Parameters on Salmonella Inactivation in Fresh-Cut Apples during Low-Pressure Cold Plasma Treatment Abdullahi M. Adam, University of Alberta |
| 11:10 AM | 11:25 AM | Live Q&A Panel |
| 11:25 AM | 11:30 AM | Hallway Chats and Stetch Break |
| 11:30 AM | 12:30 PM | Session 6: Artificial Intelligence in Food Manufacturing Session Chair: Jiakai Lu, University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
| 11:30 AM | 11:45 AM | Invited Speaker: Miia Helanto, Nature Lyotech |
| 11:45 AM | 11:55 AM | Increase Food Production Efficiency Using the Executable Digital Twin (xDT) Glenn Longwell, Siemens |
| 11:55 AM | 12:05 PM | Streamlining the R&D Process for Food and Beverage Product Development Using a Physics-Based Platform Jeffrey Sanders, Schrodinger, Inc |
| 12:05 PM | 12:15 PM | Food Innovations: Artificial Intelligence & Beyond Ming-Tao Yang & Jeff Smyth, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP |
| 12:15 PM | 12:30 PM | Live Q&A Panel |
| 12:30 PM | 12:35 PM | Closing Remarks |