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Nutrition Reviews invites you to submit your article on the present and future of precision nutrition. Read the details below for more information and submission resources. 

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• Krista Varady, University of Illinois Chicago, USA Associate Editor
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Calls for papers.

The Journal for the American Center of Nutrition invites submissions of unique, unbiased research papers on a range of key topics in the field of nutrition science.

The following topics are of particular interest to the Journal at this time. Manuscripts addressing any of these topics will be fast-tracked for timely response and peer review. Authors will be expected to return revisions promptly.  Accepted articles will be posted online prior to copyediting, and subsequently replaced with the final version. Manuscripts will be considered independently.

• Health and nutrition impacts on disease outbreaks
• Nutrition and immunity to coronaviruses
• Impact of inflammation on skin health
• Wernicke’s Encephalopathy and Korsakoff Syndrome
• Medicinal marijuana
• CBD – Cannabidiol consumption
• Oral peptides
• Impacts of nutrition on fertility
• Consumption of essential oils
• Nutrigenomics
• Protein supplements
• Sports nutrition

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The Editor-in-Chief of the  Journal of the American Center of Nutrition  welcomes manuscripts of high scientific quality that are relevant to human nutrition.

All submissions must meet the following criteria:

• Original articles pertaining to innovative research of nutritional importance with useful application for physicians and/or health care specialists.
• Critical reviews and updates that summarize the current status of research developments or present new concepts to unify relationships among nutrition, health maintenance and pathogenesis and treatment of disease. Key teaching points and nutritional relevance must be highlighted.
• Nutritional product analysis.
• Supplements representing symposia and workshops will be considered on an individual basis. Topic proposals should be presented first to the Editor-in-Chief. Individual papers will be peer-reviewed.

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Use of Nuclear Techniques in Human Nutrition Research: A Call for Papers

Daniel j hoffman.

1 Department of Nutritional Sciences, Program in International Nutrition; New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutrition, and Health, Center for Childhood Nutrition Research; Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

Cornelia U Loechl

2 International Atomic Energy Agency, Division of Human Health, Vienna International Center, Vienna, Austria

Teresa A Davis

3 USDA/Agricultural Research Service Children’s Nutrition Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

If the human nutrition community has learned anything from the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, it is that many of our advances in preventing or understanding the double burden of malnutrition are far more tenuous than we ever imagined ( 1 ). Seeing the prevalence of food insecurity continue to increase while witnessing “parallel pandemics” of diet-related chronic diseases and infectious diseases continue almost unabated is of serious concern ( 2 , 3 ). Although a great number of significant advances in human nutrition have occurred in the past 30–50 years, we remain humbled in the face of deadly diseases that are exacerbated by the ever increasing “inflammatory” diet ( 4 , 5 ). Thus, more field studies of diets, nutrient and energy metabolisms, body compositions, and maternal-infant health are urgently needed. To address this, The Journal of Nutrition issues a call for papers for studies using nuclear techniques, including stable isotopes, to demonstrate how the use of these techniques can contribute to a better understanding of underlying issues of complex nutritional problems and how investigators across boundaries and economic differences work together to improve our understanding of human nutrition and health.

Use of Nuclear and Stable Isotope Techniques in Nutrition Research

Nuclear and stable isotope techniques can be used to study a number of important nutrition outcomes, such as protein or energy metabolisms, body compositions, vitamin and mineral metabolisms, and breastfeeding practices. For example, the doubly labeled water (DLW) method is a well-validated technique to measure total daily energy expenditure in the free-living state using isotopically labeled water ( 2 H 2 18 O) ( 6 ). Experimentally, the DLW method has a relatively low burden for participants and can also be used as an indirect estimate of total energy intake ( 7 ). In addition, either of the 2 isotopes can be used to estimate total body water and calculate body composition, such as body fat mass and fat-free mass. Likewise, providing breastfeeding women a dose of deuterium can allow for maternal body composition assessments, along with measuring breast milk intake ( 8 ). A newly developed dual stable isotope tracer technique can help determine protein quality and amino acid digestion from foods ( 9 , 10 ). This is of particular importance in populations that rely mostly on plant-based protein sources. The digestibility data gathered from this method can be used to better understand amino acid and protein requirements and protein quality in the context of nutrition transition, as well as to aid in the search for alternative protein sources.

Micronutrient bioavailability can be assessed using stable isotopes of iron and zinc, which are important in the context of dietary diversification, food fortification, and supplementation programs ( 11 ). Vitamin A labelled with a stable isotope allows for the assessment of total body stores of vitamin A both in individuals and within a given population across the entire spectrum of vitamin A status ( 11 , 12 ). By assessing whether individuals or population groups are getting too little or too much vitamin A, decisions on when it is appropriate to modify or withdraw ongoing vitamin A interventions can be made. Carbon-13 breath tests have become useful, noninvasive tools to measure gastrointestinal function and to monitor pharmacological and nutritional interventions. The exhaled breath can provide important information about biochemical, physiological, and pathological processes within the body, such as in the urea breath test to detect the presence of Helicobacter pylori in the stomach ( 13 ).

International Atomic Energy Agency and Nutrition Research Using Nuclear Applications

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) supports the use of nuclear techniques, including stable isotope techniques, in nutrition assessments to develop and evaluate interventions aimed at addressing malnutrition in all its forms ( 14 ). These techniques are being used to assess nutrient bioavailability, carbohydrate and protein digestion, vitamin A body stores, body compositions, energy expenditures, bone health, breastfeeding practices, and how adverse environmental exposures impact nutritional status. The IAEA’s work has a strong focus on early life nutrition, the prevention and management of noncommunicable diseases, and diet quality. Besides building capacity in the application of well-established nuclear techniques for nutrition assessments through its Technical Cooperation Programme, the IAEA supports Coordinated Research Projects that optimize and adapt existing nuclear techniques or assist in the development of new nuclear nutrition techniques to better understand and address emerging and complex nutritional issues.

Need for Interdisciplinary Research Using Nuclear Technique

As the world moves forward following the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a renewed and urgent need to study human nutrition, now in the context of how to prevent another “parallel pandemic,” especially in low-resource communities and countries. Research in human nutrition will advance more rapidly if interdisciplinary studies, either through clinical or cohort approaches, use a combination of nuclear and related techniques to accurately measure nutritional status along with studies of specific nutrient metabolisms, thus allowing for multiple questions to be answered at the same time.

Call for Papers

The Journal of Nutrition invites submission of high-quality, original research manuscripts, reviews, perspectives, and systematic reviews with meta-analyses on studies that have used nuclear techniques (including stable isotopes) to advance human nutrition research. Papers must be submitted by 15 September 2022 to be considered for this special collection. To be included in the collection, select the appropriate Article Type for your manuscript. You will later be prompted to enter a Section/Category. Select “Nuclear Techniques in Nutrition Research” to be considered for this collection.

Accepted papers will be published continuously in their respective monthly issues, as well as on a collection landing page. Please prepare submissions in compliance with The Journal of Nutrition ’s Instructions for Authors and submit them on the Journal of Nutrition submission site, selecting the Article Type of “Nuclear Techniques.”

Articles will be peer reviewed, and submission does not guarantee manuscript acceptance. Articles are subject to the charges described under the “Policies, Fees, and Style” section in the author guidelines. Drs Daniel J Hoffman and Cornelia Loechl will serve as Guest Editors of the Collection. Please send questions to The Journal of Nutrition ’s Editor-in-Chief, Teresa Davis.

Acknowledgments

The authors’ responsibilities were as follows—all authors: conceived of and drafted the manuscript, and read and approved the final manuscript.

The authors reported no funding received for this article.

Author disclosures: DJH and CUL are Guest Editors and TAD is Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Nutrition . They played no role in the Journal ’s evaluation of the manuscript. The authors report no conflicts of interest.

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Nature Microbiology and Nature Communications are issuing a joint call for papers to highlight research focused on microbiome and nutrition.

Every year each Nature research journal Editor reads many hundreds of manuscript submissions, and in so doing gains a bird’s-eye view of research trends. One of the most rewarding aspects of being an Editor at a selective research journal is that we can nurture, foster and help to grow emergent or multi-disciplinary research communities, by publishing key papers that shape those fields.

One way we can highlight fields is to convene collections of content that enable interested researchers, be they policymakers, educators or clinicians, to readily access the very best research and commentary across the breadth of a topic in one place. To support the growing, interdisciplinary community of microbiome researchers that are interested in nutrition, we are launching a joint call for papers in microbiome and nutrition, led by our Senior Editors who focus on microbiome research, Emily White from Nature Microbiolog y and Javier Martinez-Vesga from Nature Communications .

Since the 1800s we’ve been told that ‘we are what we eat’. Nowadays we understand that nutrition is multifaceted and highly complex. Nutrition is of vital importance to human and animal health. This broad discipline attracts practitioners in medicine, dietetics and clinical nutrition, public health, food policy and sustainable development. Microbiologists form an important part of this diverse network of researchers. Fermented foods have been produced by humans for more than 10,000 years, and interest in probiotic supplements for health or to treat diseases has been magnified by the multitude of links between the composition of gut or skin microbiomes and disease. It’s only more recently, however, that research into the roles of the gut microbiota in human and animal nutrition has been reported. For example, microbiologists have been disentangling the effects of the gut microbiota on nutrition in rodent models of human diseases, in human cohorts, and in livestock and poultry including sheep, chickens and pigs. To mark the importance of microbiomes in nutrition, World Microbiome Day 2023 has the theme microbes and food .

We are interested in submissions of primary basic and clinical research, systematic reviews, policy and best practice papers, and computational tools that tackle any aspect of nutrition relevant to microbiologists, including the microbial metabolism of food and dietary components, human and animal health and disease related to nutrition, including overweight and obesity and eating disorders, microbial foods and microbiome-based dietary interventions. All submissions we select for further consideration will be peer reviewed, and published papers from Nature Microbiology and Nature Communications will be prominently highlighted on our joint Collection page.

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A sustainable food system is at the core of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that call for major transformations in agriculture and food systems to end hunger, achieve food security and improve nutrition by 2030 [1] .

The elements of food systems, nutrition, and health are intricately linked. To achieve the SDGs, the global food system needs to be reshaped to ensure the inclusiveness of low-income and marginalized populations and guarantee the capacity to provide healthy and nutritious diets to everyone.

Food-based nutrition interventions have a strong potential to enhance food security by improving food production and availability, processing, supply, and commercialization, all while facilitating its access and consumption [2] for improved nutrition outcomes. Food fortification (including large-scale food fortification and biofortification) and dietary diversification are interventions that can modify diet quality and diversity to address multiple micronutrient deficiencies and possibly help reduce the risk of diet-related non-communicable diseases [3] .

Rapidly evolving and expanding technologies offer key opportunities to address this global grand challenge and. in doing so, create positive impacts on the food system and environment – and ultimately the global population.

With the incredible growth of digital technologies over the last decade, there is tremendous potential to strengthen and improve initiatives and outcomes, especially in low-resource settings and communities which may have been previously unreachable. In fact, several development sectors have already made efforts to incorporate digital technologies into their programs, including health, agriculture, education, and others.

While there is little literature available detailing how digital technologies can be leveraged across food-system nutrition interventions to improve nutritional outcomes, it is evident that its integration is increasing worldwide as it can improve effectiveness and efficiency across the entire food supply chain.

The Unit of Multisectoral Action in Food Systems, Department of Nutrition and Food Safety, World Health Organization (WHO), and Nutrition International are jointly exploring the potential of leveraging digital technologies to strengthen food-system nutrition interventions for food fortification and dietary diversification for improved nutrition outcomes. The overall objective of this collaboration is to explore the potential for digital technologies to strengthen food-system interventions for food fortification and dietary diversification that address undernutrition and/or overweight and obesity.

Nutrition International and WHO will co-commission six review papers on the use of digital technologies to strengthen food fortification and dietary diversification. The papers call for review of only published evidence/information.

Objective: Review previous and ongoing use of digital technologies with a focus on food-system interventions for food fortification and dietary diversification, and identify potential areas for future integration of digital technologies in these interventions for improved nutrition outcomes

Description

• This paper must summarize any initiatives/efforts that have been implemented in the past or are currently being implemented using digital technologies in food-system interventions to impact nutrition outcomes.
• This ought to be done with a focus on assessing use of digital technologies for food fortification and dietary diversification as interventions of choice and being the most critical food-system interventions.
• It must examine strengths and weaknesses of these initiatives, and ideas and/or emerging solutions to better utilize and integrate digitization into these food-system interventions to improve nutrition outcomes.

Objective: Ascertain the purpose of, and lessons from, using digital technologies in other systems/sectors – including health, agriculture, social protection, etc. – and determine how these lessons may be applied to food-system interventions for food fortification and dietary diversification for improved nutrition outcomes

• This paper must explore key initiatives across different development sectors that have used digital technologies in their programs.
• The purpose and pertinent lessons in terms of successes, gaps, challenges, and best practices, from using digital technologies will be identified and documented.
• Interactive elements critical to improving the success of these efforts will also be identified alongside identifying climate-smart and nutrition-sensitive approaches that could be scaled up.
• Ways of applying these lessons to food-system interventions for food fortification and dietary diversification for better nutrition outcomes will also be documented.

Objective: Identify and document the synergies and disconnects along the food value chain between food system interventions focusing on food fortification and dietary diversification for improved nutrition outcomes

• This paper must examine crossroads between food system interventions for food fortification and dietary diversification with a focus on nutrition, production, processing, distribution, supply chains and food environments along the food value chain.
• Inequities across the food value chain will be explored and suggestions on how to fortify and diversify available diets will be included.
• Barriers that limit accessibility and affordability of healthy and nutritious foods ought to be explored, with proposed actions for mitigation.
• Overall, effective integration of food fortification and dietary diversification into the food system will be presented.

Objective: Use of big data and new technological innovations to support decision making and sustainability of food system interventions for food fortification and dietary diversification to improve nutrition outcomes

• This paper must review and document key technological innovations used in food system interventions for food fortification and dietary diversification, as well as across different development sectors, to effectively use and apply big data for decision making.
• It ought to explore the feasibility of using new and/or non-traditional data sources to support these food system interventions, including data from social media, web content, transaction data, and others.
• It will document challenges, lessons learned, and best practices to propose how data and technological innovations can be applied to ensure decision making and sustainability of food fortification and dietary diversification to improve nutrition outcomes.

Objective: Ascertain an ethics-driven approach to food system nutrition interventions for food fortification and dietary diversification, incorporating key legislation, principles, and practices, to support appropriate data and information collection, use, management, governance and security

Description:

• This paper must explore and document key legislative principles and practices that need to be in place to ensure data security as well as to support and govern ethical use and management of data and information.
• Examples of data management, data security, and ethical use of data across development sector interventions will be reviewed. Key learnings and pertinent elements that could be used for food-based nutrition interventions for food fortification and dietary diversification will be included.
• Overall, an ethics-driven approach for data governance in these food-based nutrition interventions will be proposed, including collection, protection, and use of data.

Objective: Review evidence on the ability of digital technologies to influence consumers’ understanding and perspectives on the quality of foods, their nutritional value, and health impacts, and suggest ways to shape consumers’ food behaviours to lead to improved nutrition outcomes

• This paper must review the role of digital technologies in influencing consumers behaviours including social media, advertising, marketing, and others.
• Key lessons and highlights on whether and how digital technologies could influence consumer perspectives and understanding of food quality, health, and nutritional impact must be included.
• Overall, suggestions should be presented on how to incorporate the findings and learnings into food system interventions for food fortification and dietary diversification to promote better consumer behaviours and lead to improved nutrition outcomes.

The six background papers will address the technical areas and evidence gaps to provide program implementers and policy makers with a comprehensive overview of how digital technologies may be leveraged across food-system interventions for food fortification and dietary diversification to influence and improve nutrition outcomes. The convening team will synthesize and capture the learnings from all these six papers into another (seventh) paper.

Technical consultation

Nutrition International and WHO plan to co-convene a technical consultation to review, examine, and critically assess global programmatic evidence and implementation experiences to inform how to best use digital technologies across food-system interventions addressing the double burden of malnutrition.

The meeting is expected to take place in the second half of 2022. The authors will be invited to present their work, which will be published in a special supplement. The overall outcome of this consultation will be a list of gaps and action points related to the use of digital technologies for strengthening food-system nutrition interventions for food fortification and dietary diversification for improved nutrition outcomes, to improve global policy and programming in this area.

How to submit Expressions of Interest (EoI)

Interested authors or teams must submit the following to both Nutrition International at [email protected] and to WHO at [email protected] by January 31, 2022 :

• A concept note that includes the title, abstract (250 words), objectives, and methods.
• A list of authors (lead and co-authors) and an up-to-date curriculum vitae (CV) of each member of the team.
• A budget, including team members’ fees and other expected expenses.

Kindly mention ‘Using digital technologies to strengthen food systems nutrition interventions’ in the subject line of the email.

Disclaimer:

• Interested authors or teams must disclose in their proposal details of any circumstances, including personal, financial and/or business activities, that will or might give rise to a conflict of interest. This disclosure must extend to all personnel proposed to undertake the work.
• Interested authors or teams who identify any potential conflicts must state how they intend to avoid any impact arising from such conflicts.
• Nutrition International/WHO reserve the right to reject any proposals which give rise, or could potentially give rise to, a conflict of interest.

Mid-February 2022 – Nutrition International and WHO will review the proposals and contact the authors/teams to finalize the next steps.

June 15, 2022 – Draft reviews submitted to Nutrition International and WHO

July 31, 2022 – Final reviews submitted to Nutrition International and WHO

[1] Cecilio Moron. Food-based nutrition interventions at community level. Nutrition and Food Systems | Policy Support and Governance Gateway | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean, Santiago, Chile. British Journal of Nutrition (2006), 96, Suppl. 1, S20–S22.

[2] Nair MK, Augustine LF and Konapur A (2016) Food-Based Interventions to Modify Diet Quality and Diversity to Address Multiple Micronutrient Deficiency. Front. Public Health 3:277. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2015.00277

[3]   Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Sustainable Food Systems: Concept and Framework. (fao.org) . Accessed on 27 May 2021

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Submit your abstracts for oral and poster presentations at the upcoming African Nutrition Conference 2024 in Cape Coast, Ghana, from 7th – 11th October 2024. Share your groundbreaking research findings and innovative ideas with a global audience, gain international recognition for your work and receive valuable feedback from fellow researchers and professionals to help advance nutrition science and its application in Africa and beyond. Your abstract should be no more than 300 words. The deadline for submission is 25th August 2024. Follow the guidelines here: https://www.anc.ansnet.org/abstract-submission-guidelines/?v=79cba1185463 Use the Abstract Mentor Program (AMP) to review your abstracts before submission at https://www.anc.ansnet.org/abstract-mentor-program/?v=7516fd43adaa Help shape the future of nutrition in Africa!

15th Congress on Nutrition: Food, Nutrition and Health within the Framework of Sustainable Development

The Serbian Nutrition Society is organising the 15th Congress on Nutrition, its main activity, in Belgrade from 20th to 22nd November 2024.

The theme of the Congress is ‘Food, Nutrition and Health within the Framework of Sustainable Development’. The Congress will cover:

• Food and Nutrition within Sustainable Food Production
• Nutrition During the Life Course
• Food, Nutrition and Noncommunicable Diseases
• Drinking Water Safety, Availability and Sustainability
• Food with Added Value, Dietary Supplements and Novel Food
• Food, Packaging Materials, Climate and Environment

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Registration open – 1st April 2024

Abstracts submissions open – 1st April 2024

Deadline for abstracts submission – 31st July 2024

Latest day for the abstract acceptance replies – 31st August 2024

For more information, please visit the  Congress website .

The Serbian Nutrition Society has also published a scientific journal ‘Food and Nutrition’ (Hrana i ishrana in Serbian) since 1960. The papers are are written in English. More information about the published papers, please use the keyword ‘Hrana i ishrana’ to search on this  website .

Call for Late-breaking Abstracts: Canadian Nutrition Society Annual Conference

The Canadian Nutrition Society (CNS) invites you to submit an abstract and take advantage of the opportunity to have your work presented at the CNS Annual Conference taking place May 2-4th, in Edmonton, Alberta. Some abstracts may also be selected for a presentation during a conference session.

Please note that Late-Breaking Abstracts will not be published in APNM, nor will they be eligible for CNS Abstract or Trainee Awards. 

Deadline to submit: 11 March 2024

For more information, please visit the CNS Conference website .

2024 Nutrition Congress: Abstract Submission Closing 18 March 2024

The coastal city of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, is gearing up to host the prestigious 29th Congress of the Nutrition Society of South Africa (NSSA) and the 17th Congress of the Association for Dietetics in South Africa (ADSA) in 2024. This joint event, known as the 2024 Nutrition Congress, will take place from October 2 to October 4, 2024 with a thematic focus on ‘Sprearheading Nutrition for All.’.

The 2024 Nutrition Congress Scientific Committee invites delegates to make a contribution to the 2024 Congress by submitting abstract presentations – Including Oral, Poster, Symposia and Pecha Kucha formats. Abstracts can be Scientific/Research-based as well as Information-based; the latter is the sharing of experiences, knowledge, project implementation etc. that is not necessarily research-based.

Abstract Submission Deadlines:

• Monday, 18 March 2024: Deadline for abstract submissions
• Tuesday, 25 April 2024: Feedback in terms of whether your submission has been accepted for inclusion in the 2024 Congress programme
• Tuesday, 30 April 2024: Accepted abstract submitters are to register online by this date

More information about the Congress can be found at: www.nutritioncongress.co.za.

Abstracts open – IUFoST 22nd World Congress of Food Science and Technology

The future of food is now: development, functionality & sustainability.

Submit your abstract now to join over 2,500 delegates from the Americas, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and around the globe at the upcoming congress, where an exciting program awaits. The programme includes industry-based workshops, distinguished plenary and keynote speakers, concurrent sessions led by industry experts, applied research presentations, and ample networking opportunities. The congress is designed to address the new challenges facing the sector by fostering a collaborative, interdisciplinary meeting of scientific communities that often operate in isolation. The side programme offers a mix of professional activities, such as visits to major food companies, and tourism experiences in iconic destinations like Venice, Milan, Rome, Naples, and more.

Abstract submission is open until midnight Central European Time  on February 18, 2024 .

The Congress takes place in Rimini, Italy from 8 – 12 September 2024.

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Call for Abstracts: NUTRITION 2024

Submit your unpublished research to be considered for presentation at NUTRITION 2024 . Accepted abstracts will be presented in poster and oral sessions from June 29 – July 2, 2024 at McCormick Place in Chicago, IL.

• Share your research with the greatest minds in nutrition science 
• Meet new collaborators and funders
• Publish your work in an ASN Journal 
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• Become eligible for abstract-based Award Competitions and Awards:  The George Bray Obesity Research Student Awards recognize the two students with the highest-scoring abstracts in a topical area related to the causes, treatment or prevention of obesity presenting outstanding research during NUTRITION 2024.  

The deadline for abstract submissions is February 12, 2024. Learn more and submit today !

International Symposium: Dietary Protein for Human Health

Utrecht, the netherlands 14 -16 september 2023, registration and abstract submission open now.

The International Symposium: Dietary Protein for Human Health will cover a broad range of topics concerning the role of protein in human nutrition, health and well-being. 

The three-day Symposium will include presentations and discussions on protein nutrition and health; amino acid requirements; amino acid digestibility and availability; dietary protein quality, including PDCAAS and DIAAS; influence of protein quality; influence of protein quality on growth and development and on whole-body protein metabolism; protein and future food sustainability.

The Symposium, which builds off the summit meeting held in Auckland, New Zealand in 2011, will bring together international leaders in protein nutrition and related areas and will provide an authoritative update on recent scientific developments of critical importance to human welfare and food security. 

Early bird registration closes on 15 July 2023

Abstract submission closes on 20 July 2023

For more information visit SUMMARY – Protein & Nutrition Symposium (cvent.com)

EGEA conference “One health: what contribution of fruit and vegetables?”

20-22 September 2023, Barcelona

EGEA conference is organized by APRIFEL , the Agency for Research & Information on Fruit and Vegetables. APRIFEL is an association under the law of 1901, founded in 1981. It acts as an interface between scientists, health professionals, civil society, educational experts and fruit and vegetables professionals. APRIFEL works for the dissemination of scientific information on fruit and vegetables, health, food safety and sustainability.

EGEA conference will be a unique opportunity to bring together scientists on a current and future theme: the contribution of fruit and veg to the “One Health” approach . EGEA conference, running since 2003, brings together scientists from different backgrounds and aims to propose realistic and achievable actions in relation to the topic under discussion. For this edition, more than 200 speakers and institutions (OECD, WHO, FAO, European Commission) are expected to attend the 3-day conference to share, debate and conclude.

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A call for oral communications and poster is open. The deadline for abstract submission is 30 May 2023.

The abstract could be based on recently published (2022-2023) or unpublished documents: https://www.egeaconference.com/en/programme/call-for-abstract/

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Abstract Deadline Extended – FENS 2023

14th european nutrition conference of fens, 14 – 17 november 2023 in belgrade, serbia..

The deadline for abstract submissions has been extended until 10 June 2023.

Visit https://fens2023.org/ to submit and to read more about the exciting program you can be involved in at the 14 th European Nutrition Conference in Belgrade, Serbia, in November 2023.

Event and call for abstracts: ISFANEA The 5 th International Symposium on Food and Nutrition, Expo, And Awards 2023

Organized by The Food and Nutrition Society of Indonesia (PERGIZI PANGAN Indonesia) , under the auspices of FANS, The 5 th International Symposium on Food and Nutrition, Expo, And Awards 2023 takes place from 22- 24 June 2023 in Bogor, Indonesia. The theme is “Food and Nutrition Innovations for Sustainable Economy, Health and Well-being”.

Submit your abstract before 7 April 2023.

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NUTRICON 2024 encourages the community of international researchers to share their experiences and discussions. In the history of the NUTRICON series, the conferences have been held in two different countries. The NUTRICON 2017 , NUTRICON 2018 conference was held in Colombo, Sri Lanka; and NUTRICON 2022 were held fully virtual. NUTRICON 2023 were held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. With the overwhelming support and acknowledgment from all the delegates of the past series, we wish to pioneer a way to another outstanding event.

Theme: " Future-Proofing Society: Interdisciplinary Solutions to bridge Ecosystems and Health "

Explore the theme the theme “Future-Proofing Society: Interdisciplinary Solutions to Bridge Ecosystems and Health” calls for a proactive and collaborative approach to address the complex and dynamic interactions between ecosystems and human health. By fostering interdisciplinary cooperation, integrating technological innovations, and prioritizing community engagement, societies can better prepare for the health challenges of the future.

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Build updated and futuristic international community.

One of the main objectives of NUTRICON 2024 is to continuously improve the standards of the international community of researchers, scholars, and academics by exposing them to the latest trends and developments while addressing the theme, “Future-Proofing Society: Interdisciplinary Solutions to bridge Ecosystems and Health.”

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The conference is specially designed by the TIIKM Research and Development team together with a committee of experts and international universities and networks with the guidance of the Academic Governing Body of TIIKM conferences. NUTRICON 2024 meets the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and conference general standards created to maximize industry –academia – policymaker collaborations. Conference consists with several special issues and high quality supported journals while conference proceedings are published in Open Journal System (OJS) with indexing and DOI.

Platform with Highest Networking Opportunities

The 6 th International Conference on Food, Nutrition, Health and Lifestyle 2024 (NUTRICON 2024) has a wide range of networking opportunities to maximize participants’ international network. Conference networking dinner together with cultural show, academic partner’s discussions, panel discussions, lunches and refreshments, post-conference tour will be great opportunities for participants to get life changing experiences. Moreover, the conference venue is one of the beautiful cities in the world.

Develop Careers and Increase Opportunities

NUTRICON 2024 is designed to develop the careers of the participants and increase opportunities for their future. The renowned resource persons in the education field will conduct special features of the conference. The conference will also provide a unique convergence of networking, learning, and inspiring keynote speeches, Discussions, plenary speeches, and workshops will be presented, along with the highest grade of publication opportunities.

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Title: hybridrag: integrating knowledge graphs and vector retrieval augmented generation for efficient information extraction.

Abstract: Extraction and interpretation of intricate information from unstructured text data arising in financial applications, such as earnings call transcripts, present substantial challenges to large language models (LLMs) even using the current best practices to use Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) (referred to as VectorRAG techniques which utilize vector databases for information retrieval) due to challenges such as domain specific terminology and complex formats of the documents. We introduce a novel approach based on a combination, called HybridRAG, of the Knowledge Graphs (KGs) based RAG techniques (called GraphRAG) and VectorRAG techniques to enhance question-answer (Q&A) systems for information extraction from financial documents that is shown to be capable of generating accurate and contextually relevant answers. Using experiments on a set of financial earning call transcripts documents which come in the form of Q&A format, and hence provide a natural set of pairs of ground-truth Q&As, we show that HybridRAG which retrieves context from both vector database and KG outperforms both traditional VectorRAG and GraphRAG individually when evaluated at both the retrieval and generation stages in terms of retrieval accuracy and answer generation. The proposed technique has applications beyond the financial domain

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RAISE 2025: Requirements engineering for AI-powered SoftwarE

Call for papers.

The rapid rise of Foundation Models like GPT-4 has transformed AI-powered software (AIware), presenting unprecedented opportunities and challenges in Requirements Engineering (RE). This workshop addresses the need to rethink and enhance RE practices to keep pace with AIware’s capabilities. AIware democratizes software creation via natural language prompts, requiring new RE strategies to ensure these systems are fair, transparent, and trustworthy.

RAISE 2025 brings together researchers working on requirements engineering, Software engineering for AI, Human-centered software engineering, and AIware. The aim is to enable cross-pollination and knowledge sharing between those software engineering communities across academia and industry to tackle a critical challenge of our time, engineering AI-powered systems that seemingly collaborate with humans, satisfy stakeholders’ needs, and align with society’s values.

RAISE 2025 provides a venue for researchers and practitioners to exchange and discuss trending views, ideas, state-of-the-art, work in progress, and scientific results highlighting aspects of requirements engineering for AIware. Specifically, RAISE 2025:

Brings together the greater community of researchers and practitioners in RE, SE4AI, AIware, and AI4SE in an interactive program that encourages discussion and scholarly debate on how to undertake RE for AIware from interdisciplinary perspectives.

Identifies and explores emerging and new research challenges in eliciting, modeling, analyzing, verifying, adapting, and aligning requirements for AIware for and by different researchers, with a variety of expertise and needs.

Generates a new research agenda, identifies topics of interest for this community, and how future editions of the workshop may explore these topics.

Outlines and deeply discusses changes to SE curriculum with the future of RE for AIware.

RAISE 2025 invites submissions for its inaugural workshop focused on rethinking Requirements Engineering (RE) in the context of AI-powered software (AIware). Key topics include:

• Requirements as Code. Exploring how natural language prompts can effectively specify requirements for AIware, ensuring desired outcomes and avoiding negative impacts.
• RE for AIware. Establishing new RE practices for the AIware lifecycle, including data and model alignment, cognitive architecture design, and performance engineering.
• Dual Training of AI Agents and Software Makers. Investigating how to train software makers (i.e., to interact with AI agents and design AI agents to understand and meet user needs.
• Collaboration Between AIware Agents and Humans. Understanding the interaction dynamics between humans and AIware to improve regulatory compliance, safety, security, and user experience.
• Rethinking RE Curriculum. Redesigning RE education to prepare the next generation of engineers for the challenges of AIware development.

While these topics are of main interest, we welcome any relevant submissions in the area of RE for AIware.

Important Deadlines

• Abstract Deadline : 04 November 2024
• Paper Deadline : 11 November 2024
• Author Notification : 1 December 2024
• Camera Ready Deadline : 5 February 2025

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Amel Bennaceur Program Co-Chair

The open university, uk, united kingdom.

Gopi Krishnan Rajbahadur Program Co-Chair

Centre for software excellence, huawei, canada.

Ahmed E. Hassan Steering Committee Member

Queen’s university.

Bashar Nuseibeh Steering Committee Member

Jacek Dąbrowski Proceedings Chair

Lero - the science foundation ireland research centre for software.

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