The 2nd International Electronic Conference on Antioxidants
The 2nd International Electronic Conference on Antioxidants
Part of the International Online Conference on Antioxidants series
Event's Timezone: Central European Summer Time
8 January 2025
13 February 2025
1 April 2025
Oxidative Stress, Chronic Diseases, Health Promotion, Dietary Antioxidants, Antioxidant Enzymes, Antioxidant Extraction and Assay Methods, Food and Feed Uses, Cosmetic and Biomedical Applications
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Welcome from the Chair
Dear Colleagues,
You are cordially invited to participate in The 2nd International Electronic Conference on Antioxidants. This event will offer researchers working in the field of antioxidants the opportunity to present and discuss their latest research findings.
The conference is organized by the MDPI open-access journal Antioxidants and will be held as a three-day event on 7–9 April 2025.
At present, antioxidants encompass a significant area of investigation for researchers from many disciplines, and their importance in a variety of fields, from health and food to innovative materials, is increasingly appreciated.
Surveying the topics of the papers recently contributed to our journal, it appears that the fields covered are diverse and broad. We therefore chose to focus the conference theme on a few topics that are currently gaining considerable interest in order to allow for in-depth discussions among participants.
The implication of oxidative stress in severe pathological conditions at high incidence, such as cardiovascular diseases, or chronic conditions, such as obesity or diabetes, affecting large segments of the population is now largely documented; however, the underlying mechanisms of these diseases and conditions and possible interventions are yet to be defined.
The search for novel antioxidants, either natural or bioinspired, with high bioactivity represents a greatly pursued research goal, but it is the metabolism of these compounds and their effects on the gut microbiome that is perceived as a critical issue to address.
Methods for the efficient recovery of antioxidants from natural sources and possibly agri-food waste and by-products, their testing with robust and reproducible methodologies to allow for comparative evaluation and their use in nutrition, food preservation, biomedical and other applications are issues concentrating the efforts of investigators in the field.
In this edition of the e-conference, we have planned relatively short sessions and a lively discussion to take place after each presentation.
The topics selected for the six planned sessions are as follows:
Session 1. Oxidative Stress in Obesity;
Session 2. Oxidative Stress and Inflammation in Cardiovascular Diseases;
Session 3. Antioxidants in Chronic Disease: From Dietary Prevention to Therapeutic Intervention;
Session 4. Antioxidants Intake and Gut Microbiome;
Session 5. Natural and Synthetic Antioxidants and Antioxidant Enzyme Systems;
Session 6. Antioxidant Extraction, Assay and Industrial Applications.
Accepted abstracts will be published in the proceedings of the conference, and authors will be invited to submit their abstracts as full manuscripts, which will be considered for publication in a Special Issue of Antioxidants, with a 20% discount on the APC applied.
Conference Chair,
Prof. Dr. Alessandra Napolitano
Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Naples “Federico II”, Italy
Program Overview
IECAN2025 Program (DAY 1)
Session 6. Antioxidant Extraction, Assay and Industrial Applications (Part 1)
Date: 7 April 2025 (Monday)
Time: 9:00 (CEST, Basel) | 03:00 (EDT, New York) | 15:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)
Session 6. Antioxidant Extraction, Assay and Industrial Applications (Part 2)
Date: 7 April 2025 (Monday)
Time: 14:00 (CEST, Basel) | 08:00 (EDT, New York) | 20:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)
IECAN2025 Program (DAY 2)
Session 5. Natural and Synthetic Antioxidants and Antioxidant Enzyme Systems
Date: 8 April 2025 (Tuesday)
Time: 9:00 (CEST, Basel) | 03:00 (EDT, New York) | 15:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)
Session 1. Oxidative Stress in Obesity
Date: 8 April 2025 (Tuesday)
Time: 14:00 (CEST, Basel) | 08:00 (EDT, New York) | 20:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)
IECAN2025 Program (DAY 3)
Session 3. Antioxidants in Chronic Disease: From Dietary Prevention to Therapeutic Intervention
Date: 9 April 2025 (Wednesday)
Time: 9:00 (CEST, Basel) | 03:00 (EDT, New York) | 15:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)
Session 2. Oxidative Stress and Inflammation in Cardiovascular Diseases
Session 4. Antioxidants Intake and Gut Microbiome
Date: 9 April 2025 (Wednesday)
Time: 14:00 (CEST, Basel) | 08:00 (EDT, New York) | 20:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)
Event Chair
Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples, Italy
Alessandra Napolitano has worked as a professor in Organic Chemistry in the department of Chemical Sciences of Naples University Federico II since 2011. She is the author or co-author of approximately 275 publications in peer reviewed journals (orcid.org/0000-0003-0507-5370, h-index: 55 march 2024) in the fields of Organic and Bioorganic Chemistry and has been an invited speaker and chairperson at several international conferences. Her teaching activities cover Organic Chemistry, Natural Product Chemistry and Food Chemistry She has also served as the doctorate coordinator for Chemical Sciences (38° cycle onward) and has been awarded with the Quilico Medal by the Italian Chemical Society, Organic Chemistry Division, and the Raper Medal by the International Federation of Pigment Cell Societies.
Session Chairs
Prof. Dr. Vicente Micol
Instituto de Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación en Biotecnologia Sanitaria at Miguel Hernández University, Elche, Spain
Prof. Dr. Victoria Cachofeiro
Physiology Department, School of Medicine, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain
Prof. Dr. Aldrin V. Gomes
1. Department of Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior, University of California, CA, USA 2. Department of Physiology and Membrane Biology, University of California, CA, USA
Prof. Dr. Jiankang Liu
1. School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China 2. School of Health and Life Sciences, University of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Qingdao, China
Dr. Raul Zamora-Ros
Unit of Nutrition and Cancer, Cancer Epidemiology Research Program, Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO), Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), Barcelona, Spain
Prof. Dr. José Ángel Rufián-Henares
Departamento de Nutrición y Bromatología, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de Granada, Spain
Dr. Mario Allegra
Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche Chimiche e Farmaceutiche, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy
Dr. Ren-You Gan
Department of Food Science and Nutrition, Faculty of Science, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China
Event Committee
Instituto de Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación en Biotecnología Sanitaria de Elche, Universidad Miguel Hernández (UMH), Elche, Spain
Dr. María Herranz-López is a researcher of IDiBE at the UMH within the research group "Design and Development of Bioactive Molecules". Besides being a researcher of several projects of the national plan MINECO, she is PI of a PROMETEO for research groups of excellence to evaluated the capacity of plant polyphenols to regulate appetite, energy balance and/or thermogenesis with the capability to increase gut hormones having appetite-suppressing effects and/or to mimic beige adipocyte phenotype in white fat. In addition, she is PI of a project in public-private collaboration of the State Plan for Scientific and Technical Research and Innovation for the valorisation of insect biomass chitosan to develop new sustainable biobased packaging and cosmetic formulations. She is also PI of a Project funded by the International Center for Aging Research (ICAR) on the Regulation of metabolic stress associated with aging through plant polyphenols, of the “Aid Program for Aging Research of the ICAR Foundation, 2023”. Moreover, she is PI in other regional projects using omics techniques for the characterization of in vitro obesity models, and to study, in an ex vivo experimental model, the behaviour of leukocytes from the blood of patients with type 2 diabetes and evaluate the protective effect of antioxidant metabolites. She is also reviewer at the State Research Agency-AEI since 2021 and is also involved in different scientific leadership activities, creating a national and international network and collaborations that has allowed to apply for several international calls. Recently, she has obtained a grant for the requalification of university teaching staff for a period of one year in the research group in Cardiovascular Pathology that belongs to the Institute of Health and Biomedical Research of Alicante.
obesity, metabolic diseases, adipocytes, natural compounds, polyphenols, oxidative stress, cancer
Departamento of Physiology School of Medicine, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, CIBERCV, Spain
Ernesto Martínez-Martínez is a permanent Faculty Member at the School of Medicine in Complutense University of Madrid. Dr. Martínez-Martínez combines his teaching tasks with the research as co-leader, with Dr. Victoria Cachofeiro, of the Cardiovascular and Metabolic Physiopathology research group. The interest of the group is the study of the mechanisms involved in the cardiovascular damage associated with several pathologies such as obesity, myocardial infarction, metabolic syndrome, hypertension, cardiorenal syndrome… After his BSc degrees in Chemistry, (2006) and master degree in Biochemistry (2008), Dr. Martínez-Martínez started his thesis focus on “Role of leptin in the cardiovascular alterations associated with obesity: mechanisms involved” under the supervision of Prof. Victoria Cachofeiro. In 2014, joined the Dr López-Andrés group as a Post-Doctoral Researcher and focused his studies in the search of new targets of aldosterone involved in cardiovascular remodeling as well as in valvulopathies. In 2015, Dr. Martínez-Martínez moved to Paris, under Dr Jaisser supervision and continued his research in mineralocorticoid receptor, pathophysiology and therapeutic innovations. This background has allowed over different peer-reviewed publications and book chapters and is member of different editorial boards.
obesity, oxidative stress, mitochondria, endoplasmic reticulum stress, cardiac damage
Department of Applied Biology-Nutrition, Institute of Bioengineering, Miguel Hernández University (UMH), Elche, Spain,
Alicante Institute for Health and Biomedical Research (ISABIAL), Alicante, Spain,
CIBER Physiopathology of Obesity and Nutrition/Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y la Nutrición (CIBEROBN), Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), Madrid, Spain
The connection to the world of Nutrition began with a doctoral thesis on protein metabolism. This thesis was supervised by Dr. D. Santiago Grisolía (a disciple of Nobel Prize winner Dr. D. Severo Ochoa) and Dr. Erwin Knecht (1984-1989). Subsequently, I completed a postdoctoral fellowship with a contract for 8 years in the USA, Switzerland, and Canada, under the direction of Dr. Marc Prentki. During my time in these countries, I focused on aspects related to Nutrigenomics and its implications for diabetes, obesity, and cell therapy (1989-1996). Finally, I returned to Spain in 1996 to the Miguel Hernández University of Elche, where I developed a new line of research centered on Nutrition applied to physical activity, for both athletes and individuals with diabetes or obesity. These lines of research continue to be developed in collaboration with the Bioactive Compounds Group (IDiBE), the Research Center for Sports, and the spin-off NUTRIEVIDENCE within the aforementioned university.
diabetes, pancreatic cells, obesity, nutrition, oxidative stress, physical exercise, polyphenols
Department for the Promotion of Human Science and Quality of Life San Raffaele Open University, Rome, Italy
Mauro Lombardo, MD, Associate Professor at the Department of Human Sciences and Promotion of Quality of Life, San Raffaele Open University, Rome, Italy. Specializing in human nutrition, obesity, metabolic disorders, sports nutrition, and eating behavior. Author of over 90 scientific articles and editor of several special issues in high-impact journals. Lecturer in nutrition sciences, with extensive teaching and research experience. Nationally qualified as a first-rank professor in nutrition and food sciences.
Plant-based diet, legumes, obesity, T-MAO, vitamin D
Instituto de Investigación e Innovación Biomédica de Cádiz (INiBICA), Hospital Universitario Puerta del Mar, Universidad de Cádiz, Cádiz, Spain
Principal Investigator of the "Metabolomics & Bioanalysis" research group at Instituto de Investigación e Innovación Biomédica de Cádiz (INiBICA). My research interests are focused on the development and application of state-of-the-art omics approaches (i.e., metabolomics & metallomics) in biomedicine, nutrition, and food science. In particular, I have contributed to the development of bioanalytical key methods employed worldwide for characterizing the role of the gut microbiota, nutrition, and other sources of exposure (i.e., the exposome) in health status, and to unravel the influence of interindividual variability factors in the context of precision medicine. Using these methods in population-based cohorts, clinical trials, and animal models/cell lines, I have great experience in investigating the molecular mechanisms and risk factors behind the onset and progression of a variety of cardiometabolic and neurological diseases.
metabolomics, childhood obesity, inter-individual variability, exposome, polyphenols
Tecnologico de Monterrey, The Institute for Obesity Research, Mexico,
Tecnologico de Monterrey, Department of Bioengineering, Mexico
Dr. Ivan Luzardo-Ocampo is a research professor at the Institute for Obesity Research and the Department of Bioengineering at Tecnológico de Monterrey. He holds a Ph.D. in Food Science and an M.Sc. in Food Science and Technology from the Autonomous University of Querétaro (Mexico), as well as a bachelor’s degree in Food Engineering from the Universidad del Quindío (Colombia). Dr. Luzardo was a visiting scholar in Food Science and Technology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the University of Barcelona (Spain). He also completed a Ph.D. research fellowship at the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Before joining Tecnológico de Monterrey, Dr. Luzardo was a postdoctoral fellow in Obesity and Endocrinology at the Institute of Neurobiology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Dr. Luzardo has authored or co-authored more than 50 peer-reviewed research articles and 8 book chapters. His primary research interests focus on the impact of native corn and bean food prototypes and metabolites in disease models, particularly in obesity, inflammation, and colon cancer.
obesity, inflammation, in vitro digestion, corn, common bean, antioxidants
Department of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC, USA
redox signaling; protein S-glutathionylation; glutathione-dependent antioxidants; monocytes; macrophages; innate immune system; metabolism; metabolic diseases; atherosclerosis; phytochemicals
Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Cardiovascular-Renal Research Center, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA
Dr. David E. Stec, a professor in the Department of Physiology & Biophysics, and director of the Cardiovascular-Renal Research Center. He earned his PhD in physiology from the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee and received postdoctoral training in molecular genetics at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. He has served on the faculty at the University of Mississippi Medical Center since 2001. Stec has received several awards from the American Heart Association, American Physiological Society and the International Society of Hypertension. He has served as Chair or co-Chair for peer review committees for the American Heart Association and has served as an ad hoc member of several study sections for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He has been on the organizing committee for several meetings of the International Conference on Heme Oxygenases. His current research focuses on the cardiovascular complications of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD). He is also an expert in the role of heme oxygenase and its metabolite, bilirubin, in the regulation of metabolism and cardiovascular function. His lab also created the first model of knockout of the bilirubin-generating enzyme biliverdin reductase. His work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and the American Heart Association. He has over 125 publications in leading cardiovascular and metabolic journals.
Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Pharmacology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel
Dr. Yoav Sharoni is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Pharmacology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel. He served as the Chairman of the Department of Clinical Biochemistry and was teaching General Biochemistry and Clinical Biochemistry to medical students and to undergraduate students, as well as supervising graduate student candidates for MSc and DSc / PhD degrees. Dr. Yoav Sharoni's past research interests were in the regulation of mammary and prostate cancer cell proliferation by hormones, growth factors and phyto-nutrients. The main emphasis has been on the role of carotenoids and other dietary derived compounds in cancer prevention and the mechanisms for such effects. In this respect the focus has been on the regulation of basic cellular pathways such as cell cycle machinery, transcription, differentiation and transduction of hormonal signals. Current interests are in the role of carotenoids, polyphenols and sex hormones in skin and bone health and the mechanisms for such effects. In this respect the focus has been on the regulation of the cellular antioxidant defense mechanisms and on modulation of inflammatory pathways. Dr. Yoav Sharoni received his Ph.D. degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1977. He was a researcher at Duke University and Burroughs Wellcome drug company, NC, USA (1978-1980) and a visiting professor at the NIH, MD USA (1987-1988), Cornell University, NY USA (1998) and at Temple University, PA USA (2014-2019).
carotenoids; polyphenols; antioxidants; Nrf2; estrogens; oxidative stress; ROS; skin health; dermal fibroblasts; keratinocytes; bone health; osteoblasts; osteoclasts
Gianluca Rizzo is a freelance nutritionist and independent researcher. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Biology, a PhD in Biotechnology, a 2nd Level Master’s degree in Food Supplements, and a Master’s in Advanced Study in Nutraceuticals from the University of Messina. During his PhD and postdoctoral studies for the Telethon Foundation, he deepened oxidative stress related to iron metabolism in neurodegenerative diseases. As an Author, Reviewer, Section Board Member, Topic, Guest and Associate Editor for peer-reviewed journals, he is a topic expert in human nutrition for the University of Messina (Italy). He is also an invited speaker and scientific manager for continuing medical education courses.
Nutrition; supplements; soy; isoflavones; cobalamin; plant-based diet; vegetarian diet
Head of Department of Pharmacognosy-Phytotherapy, University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Victor Babeș" Timișoara, Romania,
Head of Doctoral School of Pharmacy, University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Victor Babeș" Timișoara, Romania
Prof.dr.habil. Danciu Corina is the head of the Department of Pharmacognosy-Phytotherapy and the head of the Farmacy Doctoral School of “Victor Babeș University of Medicine and Pharmacy”, Timișoara, Romania. Over the years she has published 117 ISI papers , having the fallowing metrics: H index Web of Science:30; H index GoogleScholar:36. The main research interest include (but are not limited): phytochemical characterization; extraction, isolation and characterization of pure bioactive compounds from plants extracts; assessment of the biological activity of plant extracts/pure active phytochemicals; physico-chemical modulations to increase the biological activity; in vitro, in vivo evaluations; clinical trials. She is also involved in different administrative activities within the University.
natural compounds, phytochemical composition, biological evaluation, in vitro-in vivo evaluation
Institute of Animal Reproduction and Food Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Olsztyn, Poland
valorisation of plant-based by-products; bioactive compounds; antioxidant activity; prebiotics; innovative bakery products; nutritional value; functional foods
Department of Biological, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies (SteBiCef), University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
Antonella D’Anneo is an Associate Professor in Biochemistry at the Department of Biological, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies (SteBiCef), University of Palermo. Lecturer in ”Biochemistry” at Bachelor degree in Biological Sciences, University of Palermo. Member of the Italian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SIB). Associate Editor in Chief of Cancer Management and Research, Associate Editor for Frontiers in Pharmacology and Associate Editor for Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences. She began her studies on the field of tumor biology, cell death mechanisms (apoptosis, necrosis, necroptosis, autophagy and anoikis) activated by natural and synthetic compounds and biochemical pathways which can be activated in tumor cells. Since 2000 she has been working at the University of Palermo where she received her PhD in Experimental Oncobiology in 2004. To complement the graduate training in biochemistry, she obtained, as visiting scholar, a training at Rangos Research Center (University of Pittsburgh, USA) taking part in projects concerning gene therapy approaches to determine tolerization of diabetic patients against the cells of islet donor. More recently, her studies were focused on the identification nutraceutical properties (anti-tumor, anti-inflammatory, anti-obesity and antioxidant) of phytochemicals to disclose their biological activity and potential medicinal use. She is the author of over 75 scientific publications in ISI-indexed journals (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1785-8236) with an H-index of 29.
Biochemical pathways in cancer cell death (apoptosis, necrosis, necroptosis, autophagy and anoikis); oxidative stress; signal transduction; targeted therapies; cancer stem-like cells; nutrition and human diseases; analysis of the behaviours of phytocompou
Department of Life Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy
"Federica Pellati is an Associate Professor in Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in Italy, where she is the Principal Investigator of the research group “Natural Products for Medicinal Chemistry”. Her research is dedicated to the study of bioactive natural compounds as new leads in medicinal chemistry. Her interest is focused on the extraction and analysis of molecules from Cannabis sativa L., and on the investigation of their biological activity against hyper-proliferative disorders and central nervous system diseases. She has many international and national research projects and collaborations. In 2022, she has been awarded with the ElSohly Award by CANN for her research on C. sativa. She is the author of more than 110 papers in international scientific journals (h-index = 36 from Scopus), 2 patents and more than 100 congress communications. She is an editorial board member for many international Journals in the areas of medicinal chemistry and pharmaceutical analysis. "
natural products; drug discovery; medicinal chemistry; hyperproliferative disorders; central nervous system (CNS) pathologies
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Boonshoft School of Medicine, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, USA
Dr. Oleg Paliy is an Associate Professor in Boonshoft School of Medicine, Wright State University, USA where he studies the roles of human intestinal microbiota in host health and disease. Dr. Paliy has obtained his Ph.D. from University of Manchester, UK, and has received postdoctoral training in microbiology and systems biology at University of California - Berkeley, USA. Dr. Paliy’s research utilizes novel molecular techniques, which are combined with biocomputational modeling of microbial interactions. Dr. Paliy has been funded by NIH, NSF, Fulbright Commission, and industrial partners, serves as a grant reviewer for NIH, NASA, and BBSRC, and has published frequently on the topic of interest.
gut microbiota, human microbiome, intestinal microbes, nutrition, human diet, prebiotics
Department of Pharmacy, University of Naples Federico II, Via Domenico Montesano 49, Naples, Italy
Maria Daglia's scientific activity has developed along two lines of research: 1) the study of biological properties of components that are either naturally present or also induced following thermo/technological treatments in foods, useful in food and pharmaceutical fields; 2) the development of analytical spectrophotometric and chromatographic methods useful in the identification and determination of biological active compounds occurring in foods. More recently, further research has been carried out, including i) the investigation of the mechanism at the molecular level through which foods with nutraceutical activity and / or their components perform beneficial effects in Humans, with particular reference to polyphenols, secondary metabolites of plants widely distributed in all categories of foods, from current foods to food supplements, and ii) the study of components with nutraceutical activity to be used in the health products industry, with in vitro, in vivo model systems and clinical studies.
Research Institute of Integrative Life Sciences, Dongguk University, Goyang-si, Republic of Korea
antioxidant activity; bioactive compounds; medicinal plants; functional foods; biomolecules; nanobiotechnology
Department of Pharmacy, “G. d’Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy
Prof. Simone Carradori obtained his PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences in 2007 from Sapienza University of Rome. Currently, he is working as an Associate professor in Medicinal Chemistry at the Department of Pharmacy, “G. d’Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara (Italy). He has produced more than 275 papers, 12 chapters and two patents. His research activity focuses on the design and development of small molecules as enzyme modulators as well as the isolation, characterization, and chemical functionalization of natural compounds to improve their pharmacodynamic or pharmacokinetic properties. He is Editor-In-Chief of “Anti-Cancer Agents in Medicinal Chemistry”. He is also included in the World’s Top 2% Scientists list since 2021 by the scientists at Stanford University.
natural compounds; medicinal chemistry; food chemistry; antioxidants; antimicrobials; anti-inflammatory; anticancer; extraction; bioactive compounds; nutraceutical; well-being; food supplement; functional food
Nutrition and Bromatology Group, Department of Analytical Chemistry and Food Science, Faculty of Science, University of Vigo, Ourense, Spain
Miguel A. Prieto holds a multidiscipline graduate record covering disciplines from Agricultural Sciences, Food Science and Technology and Engineering. He completed two Post-Graduate Master courses in Food Science and Technology and Biosystems Engineering, at the University of Vigo (Spain) and the University College Dublin (Ireland). He completed his PhD degree in Food Science Technology at the Institute of Marine Research (IIM-CSIC, Vigo, Spain). Currently, he is an associate professor at the University of Vigo, leading his own independent group. His experience in Food Chemistry and Technology is supported by more than 200 peer-reviewed articles published in journals indexed in Web of Science (Researcher ID G-4516-2011). To date he has achieved a 52 h-index with over 8,400 citations from 2011 to 2024. He has collaborated in 29 research projects (PI in 4 of them) and he holds 5 patents. He has co-authored a total of 306 communications on more than 90 different international and national conferences (see ResearchGate profile). From these 306 contributions 113 are oral presentations and 135 poster communications and he has been invited as plenary speaker in 5 occasions. He is member of the editorial board of different international SCI-journals (JCR), including Food Chemistry Advances, Frontiers in Nutrition, Current Pharmaceutical Design, Food Science & Nutrition, Chemosensors, International Journal of Molecular Sciences and Antioxidants. To date, he is collaborating with 28 PhD students, of which is the main supervisor of 13, and co-supervisor of 15 students.
food chemistry; food technology; bioactive compounds; analytical techniques; natural food products; emerging technologies; green processes; sustainability; chemical engineering; synergy & antagonism; natural and synthetic antioxidants; mathematical modeli
Department of Biochemistry and Crop Quality, Institute of Soil Science and Plant Cultivation—State Research Institute, Puławy, Poland
Full Professor and the former director of the Institute of Soil Science and Plant Cultivation, State Research Institute, Pulawy, Poland. Research interest includes isolation, purification, structural and quantitative determination of plant natural products (saponins, phenolics, glycoalkaloids, glucosinolates, resorcinols, cyanogenic glucosides), natural toxicants of plants - allelopathy, natural pesticides, post-harvest quality of agricultural products, natural antioxidants and anticancerogens, nutraceuticals, biosynthesis of secondary metabolites, food and feed stuff additives, functional food, agronomy, production systems, climate change in relation to agriculture, bioeconomy. Participant/coordinator of the number of EU projects. Former President of the Phytochemical Society of Europe. Member of Polish Academy of Sciences.
chromatography; plant physiology; extraction spectrometry; food chemistry; natural product; chemistry antioxidants
Department of Pharmacy, Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Calabria, Rende, Italy
"Monica Rosa Loizzo graduated cum laude in Pharmacy at University of Calabria (Italy) in 1999. PhD in “Methodology for the development of new molecules of pharmacological interest” 2005, at University of Calabria; Master on Clinical Pathology at University of Calabria. From 2002 to 2004 she spent a period of stage at “Centre for Bioactivity Screening of Natural Products” at King’s College London (UK). In 2008 she spent a period of stage in the laboratory of “Area of Food Industries and technologies” of Politecnica delle Marche University (Ancona, Italy). From 18.12.2008 to 29.12.2017 she is researcher in Food Science Technology at Department of Pharmacy, Health Science and Nutrition of University of Calabria. From 30.12.2017 she become Associate Professor. Prof. Loizzo author of 252 research paper, 17 book chapter and 12 Editorial. Her h index is 53. From 2022 she is Coordinator of the master’s degree course in Nutritional Science. Monica Rosa Loizzo got specific abilities on the main separative techniques with use of different detector systems to determine the chemical composition of different food matrix. She got specific abilities on the main spectrophotometric methods to evaluate the health properties by different in vitro methods (antioxidant, hypoglycaemic, hypolipidemic etc.) of phytochemicals rich food. Moreover, her research interest including the influence of technological processes on the overall quality of food with reference to compounds able to prolong the shelf-life (antioxidant, antimicrobial, anti-browning). She has studied also the chemical composition, sensory evaluation and health properties of extra virgin olive oil, wines, liquor, fish products and sausages. She is referee of several national and international Institutions and member of the Management Committee of COST Action “Eurocaroten” until 2020.
food science technology; bioactives from food by-products; evaluation of shelf-life; development of functional foods
Department of Pharmacy, Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Calabria, Via P. Bucci, Edificio Polifunzionale, CS, Italy
Rosa Tundis is an Associate Professor in Pharmaceutical Biology at the Department of Pharmacy, Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Calabria (Italy). Her research interest is focused on natural compounds. Over the years, she has successfully extracted, purified and characterized several bioactive compounds, mainly including flavonoids and iridoids, from medicinal plants and plant foods and explored their antioxidant, anti-proliferative, hypoglycaemic, antihypertensive, and neuroprotective activities among others. She is an editorial board member for many international Journals including Antioxidants, Plants, and Food Frontiers. She has many international and national collaborations. Her experience in the field of natural products is supported by more than 170 peer-reviewed international papers, more than 100 congress communications, and 14 book chapters. To date she has achieved a 52 h-index with over 9500 citations (Scopus).
natural products; antioxidants; chemical analysis; Mediterranean species; plant bioactivities; agro-food by-products; enzymes inhibition; functional foods
Lucia Panzella is Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Department of Chemical Sciences of University of Naples “Federico II”. Her main research interests include the structural characterization, extraction and evaluation/modulation of the antioxidant properties of natural phenolic compounds with particular reference to the exploitation of these compounds for the development of functional materials to be used in the food, cosmetic, and biomedical sectors. She is coauthor of more than 150 publications on international peer-reviewed journals.
phenolic compounds, antioxidants, lignin, tannins, melanins, organic chemistry
Invited Speakers
Department of Pharmacy, "G. d'Annunzio" University of Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy
Dr. Marialucia Gallorini graduated in 2011 in Pharmacy at the University of Chieti-Pescara. In 2016 she has completed her PhD in Drug Sciences as Doctor Europaeus with a thesis entitled “Adaptive cell responses to oxidative stress towards biomaterials, chemical and chemotherapeutic agents in the oral cavity”. From 2014 to 2021, she is Visiting Scientist at the University Hospital of Regensburg (Germany). Dr. Marialucia Gallorini is currently Senior Researcher and Teaching Assistant of Human Anatomy at the Department of Pharmacy of the University of Chieti. She has been enrolled for this position in 2019, through a Horizon 2014-2020 Grant assigned to the Department of Pharmacy and furtherly confirmed as a permanent researcher. Dr. Marialucia Gallorini has authored more than 60 papers in international peer-reviewed journals (h-index=20; n. of citations=1330). Her main research interests are investigating cell responses towards oxidative stress and inflammation in different cell models, from immunocompetent cells to mesenchymal stem cells and tendon-derived cells, and analyzing biocompatibility and osteoconductive potential of materials for regenerative medicine purposes. She is currently involved in several funded projects regarding the interplay between immunomodulation and cancer or regenerative medicine, with an eye on the key role of the host microbiota in this processes.
Hector-Center for Nutrition, Exercise and Sports Department of Medicine 1, University Hospital Erlangen Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Prof. Dejan Reljic is the head of the Sports Medicine & Exercise Physiology Laboratory at the Hector-Center for Nutrition, Exercise and Sports. They are interested in developing and testing innovative exercise and nutritional interventions in chronic diseases with a special focus on obesity/metabolic syndrome and cancer. The goal of their research is to establish optimized and personalized exercise and nutrition therapies to improve patients' physical performance, quality of life, and disease prognosis.
Research Center for Plants and Human Health, Institute of Urban Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Chengdu, China
Antioxidant compounds extraction from thinned unripe kiwifruits: Optimization, identification and bioactivities
Dr. Hongyan Liu is mainly engaged in the research on the safety and nutrition of agricultural products. Her research interests mainly focus on extraction, isolation, identification and application of natural antioxidants such as phenolic compounds, polysaccharide. She has published more than 50 SCI papers, and currently is the member of editorial board of “Journal of Future Foods”, reviewer editor of “Frontiers in Nutrition”, guest editor of “Foods”, “Nutrition” and “Antioxidants”.
phenolic compounds, antioxidants, lignin, tannins, melanins, organic chemistry
Tecnologico de Monterrey, The Institute for Obesity Research, Mexico,
Tecnologico de Monterrey, Department of Bioengineering, Mexico
obesity, inflammation, in vitro digestion, corn, common bean, antioxidants
Head of Department of Pharmacognosy-Phytotherapy, University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Victor Babeș" Timișoara, Romania,
Head of Doctoral School of Pharmacy, University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Victor Babeș" Timișoara, Romania
Department of Biological, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies (SteBiCef), University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
Department of Pharmacy, University of Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy
Departamento of Physiology School of Medicine, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, CIBERCV, Spain
Instituto de Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación en Biotecnología Sanitaria de Elche, Universidad Miguel Hernández (UMH), Elche, Spain
Genomics and Health Area of FISABIO-Public Health, Valencian Region Foundation for the Promotion of Health and Biomedical Research (FISABIO), Spain
Tannins for Gut Microbiome Modulation
human microbiome; microbial ecology; microbial genomics; metagenomics; genome evolution
Sessions
S2. Oxidative Stress and Inflammation in Cardiovascular Diseases
S3. Antioxidants in Chronic Disease: From Dietary Prevention to Therapeutic Intervention
S4. Antioxidants Intake and Gut Microbiome
S5. Natural and Synthetic Antioxidants and Antioxidant Enzyme Systems
S6. Antioxidants Extraction, Assay and Industrial Applications
Registration
If you are registering several people within the same registration, please do not use the same email address for each person, but rather their individual university email addresses.
Please note that submission and registration are two separate processes. Only scholars who have registered will receive a link to the conference live stream. The deadline for registration is 1 April 2025.
Instructions for Authors
Important Deadlines
Deadline for abstract submission: 8 January 2025
Deadline for abstract acceptance notification: 13 February 2025
Announcement of oral and poster abstract results: 8 February 2025; You will be notified of the acceptance of an oral/poster presentation in a separate email.
Abstract Submission
1. Abstract submissions should be completed online by registering with www.sciforum.net and using the "New Submission" function once logged into the system. No physical submission is necessary.
2. The abstract should include introduction, methods, results, and conclusion sections, and be within 250-300 words in length.
3. All accepted abstracts will be published in the conference report of IECAN2025 in MDPI’s Proceedings journal (ISSN: 2504-3900) after a quality check. If you wish to publish a research article in the journal, please refer to the “Publication Opportunities” Section.
4. All abstracts should be submitted and presented in clear, publication-ready English with accurate grammar and spelling.
5. You may submit multiple abstracts. However, only one abstract will be selected for oral presentation.
6. All abstracts accepted for presentation will be collected in a book of abstracts, which will be published on the website after the conference.
7. The abstracts submitted to this conference must be original and novel, without prior publication in any journals or it will not be accepted to this conference.
1. The submitting author must ensure that all co-authors are aware of the contents of the abstract.
2. Please select only one presenter for each submission. If you would like to change the presenter after submission, please email us accordingly.
The slot for the oral presentation is 15 minutes. We recommend a 12-minute presentation, leaving about 3 minutes for a Q&A session.
Poster Presentation
a. Your submission should include the title, authors, contact details, and main research findings, as well as tables, figures, and graphs where necessary
b. File format: PDF (.pdf)
c. Size in cm: 60 width x 80 height–portrait orientation
d. Font size: ≥ 16
e. Maximum size: 250 MB
Authors who wish to present a poster are invited to upload it to the conference website. Once your submission is accepted, you can upload your poster in the 'My submission' section by selecting the correct conference and submission, then clicking the upload button. Authors who encounter difficulties uploading their poster are invited to send it to the conference email at iecan2025@mdpi.com. All posters will be permanently exhibited online in the Poster Gallery.
It is the authors' responsibility to identify and declare any personal circumstances or interests that may be perceived as inappropriately influencing the representation or interpretation of clinical research. If there is no conflict, please state "The authors declare no conflicts of interest." This should be conveyed in a separate "Conflict of Interest" statement preceding the "Acknowledgments" and "References" sections at the end of the manuscript. Any financial support for the study must be fully disclosed in the "Acknowledgments" section.
MDPI, the publisher of the Sciforum.net platform, is an open access publisher. We believe authors should retain the copyright to their scholarly works. Hence, by submitting an abstract to this conference, you retain the copyright to the work, but you grant MDPI the non-exclusive right to publish this abstract online on the Sciforum.net platform. This means you can easily submit your full paper (with the abstract) to any scientific journal at a later stage and transfer the copyright to its publisher if required.
Publication Opportunities
Participants in this conference are cordially invited to contribute a research article to a Special Issue published in Antioxidants (ISSN: 2076-3921, Impact Factor: 6.0), with a 20% discount on the publication fee. All submitted papers will undergo MDPI’s standard peer-review procedure. The abstracts should be cited and noted on the first page of the paper. Please note if you have IOAP/association discounts, conference discounts will be combined with IOAP/association discounts. Conference discounts cannot be combined with reviewer vouchers.
Manuscripts for the proceedings issue must be formatted as follows:
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Title
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Full author names
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Affiliations (including full postal address) and authors' e-mail addresses
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Abstract
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Keywords
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Introduction
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Methods
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Results and Discussion
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Conclusions
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Acknowledgements
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References.
Event Awards
To acknowledge the support of the conference's esteemed authors and recognize their outstanding scientific accomplishments, we are pleased to announce that the conference will provide 6 awards including Best Oral Presentation Award and Best Poster Award.
The Awards
Number of Awards Available: 6
The Best Oral Presentation Award is given to the submission judged to make the most significant oral contribution to the conference.
The Best Poster Award is given to the submission judged to make the most significant and interesting poster for the conference.
There will be six winners selected for these awards. The winner will receive a certificate and 200 CHF each.
Sponsors and Partners
For information regarding sponsorship and exhibition opportunities, please click here.
Organizers
Media Partners
Conference Secretariat
Ms. Miya Wu
Ms. Esther Leong
For inquiries regarding submissions and sponsorship opportunities, please feel free to contact us.
Email: iecan2025@mdpi.com
