- DAY DAY 1 - March 17 , 2022 (10-12 CET)
- Presenters Desmarchelier (AMU), Gratiela Gradisteanu (UB), Ionela Avram (UB), Presenters Desmarchelier (AMU), Gratiela Gradisteanu (UB), Ionela Avram (UB), - Chair - Consuelo Prado (UAM)
- Presentations:
- 1.Overview of food digestion - Charles Desmarchelier, Aix-Marseille University - This course will present the major steps of food digestion: organs involved, mechanical and chemical processes and the digestive fate of carbohydrates, proteins and lipids.
- 2. The microbiota response to diet and dietary components Gratiela Gradisteanu, University - of Bucharest - Students will be introduced to the world of microbiome and omic technologies (metabolomics) and be familiarised with the mechansims behind the diet-microbioem interplay
- 3. to modify the microbiota through dietary interventions 3. to modify the microbiota through dietary interventions - Ionela Avram, University of Bucharest - the course will answer 2 important questions in the field - Can we change the composition of our gut microbiota? What are the factors that affect the structure of our gut microbiota and how can we control them? The presentation will focus on probitoics - definitions, examples, use of probiotics for different diseases, impact of probiotics on the host microbiome
- DAY DAY 2 - March 18 , 2022 (10-12 CET)
- Presenters Prado (UAM), Bianca Tihauan (UB), Chair-Gratiela Gradisteanu (UB) Presenters Prado (UAM), Bianca Tihauan (UB), Chair-Gratiela Gradisteanu (UB) -
- Presentations
- 1. Novel foods -Bianca Tihauan , University of Bucharest .The presentation will focus on regulatory frameworks and policies needed to support the uptake of novel foods with health beneficial effects
- 2. - Body composition, impact of overnutrition and undernutrition on the gut Social aspects microbiota -Consuelo Prado, University of The presentation focus Autonoma Madrid. - on the different possibilities to estimate body composition and its variation by sex and age.

#### Biosketches of the presenters (listed in alphabetical order):

Ionela Avram (Sarbu), Senior Researcher and Lecturer at University of Bucharest , Faculty of Biology, Department of Genetics. Her main research interests include probiotics, prebiotics, synbiotics, the gut microbiota and dairy microbiology. Charles Desmarchelier is an Assistant Professor at the Center for CardioVascular and Nutrition research (C2VN), a joint research unit under the triple supervision of Aix-Marseille University, INSERM and INRAE, France (https://c2vn.univ-amu.fr/equipes/equipe-1-micronutrition- humaine/?lang=en). He earned his engineering degree from AgroParisTech (France), his PhD in Nutrition from the Technical University of Munich (Germany) and his PharmD from Aix-Marseille University (France). His research focuses on the identification of factors influencing the bioavailability of fat-soluble vitamins and phytochemicals, such as carotenoids. His researches include clinical trials, cell experiments (mainly Caco-2 as a model of human enterocyte) and in vitro gastro-intestinal digestions. He teaches nutrition and analytical chemistry for pharmacy students and for health professionals. Gratiela (Pircalabioru) Gradisteanu - Senior Researcher at the Research Intitute of University of Bucharest (ICUB), she teaches Medical Microbiology (6 ECTS) and Newtargets for developing