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Dietary Fibre: effects on appetite, wellbeing and cognitive function
Louise Dye, Professor of Nutrition and Behavior, University of Leeds, UK
Betaglucan as part of the treatment in Diabetes and Hypercholesterolemia
Fredrik Andersson, Managing Director Prorsum Healthcare AB, Sweden
Extinction or Evolution
Chris Green, Director Senova Ltd, UK
Oat milling process - Technological update
Urs Santschi, Oat Process Specialist, Speciality Milling Solutions, Bühler
The Positioning and Branding of Oatly Oat Milk
Åsa Lundströn, Marketing Director Oatly, Sweden
Swedish Seal/Svenskt Sigill - the use of a quality label too communicate quality
Anders Karlsson, Swedish Seal/Svenskt Sigill, Sweden
Title to be announced
Sonja Klemsdal, Bioforsk, Norway
Resistance to fusarium infection in oatS (Avena sativa l.)
Åsmund Bjørnstad, Professor at Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway
Oat benefits & Credibility: The Most Effective Way To Communicate Health Claims To Consumers
Adrian Meyer, Sales and Marketing Director CreaNutrition AG, Switzerland
Beta-glucan as novel ingredient for fiber-eniched functional beverages
Juhani Sibakov, PhD VTT, Epso, Finland
Oat Breeding for Europe – Impossibility or Challenge?
Steffen Beuch, PhD, Oat breeder Nordsaat Saatzuchtgesellschaft mbH, Germany
Structures, Quantitative Analysis and Chemical Syntheses of Avenanthramides from Bran of “False Malted” Oats
Bill Collins, PhD, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Eastern Cereal and Oilseed Research Centre (ECORC), Canada
Nutritional Quality in Oat Genetic Resources – a European
Initiative (AVEQ)
Matthias , PhD Julius Kuehn Institute, Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants Institute for Breeding Research on Agricultural Crops
The Collaborative Oat Research Enterprise (CORE): a global collaboration for oat innovation
Eric Jackson, PhD, Project coordinator for the North American Collaborative Oat Research Enterpise (North American CORE), USDA ARS Aberdeen, USA
Phenotyping the CORE: the foundation
Don Obert, PhD Research Geneticist, USDA ARS Aberdeen, USA
CORE Accociation Field Trails Project Leader
Snips in a Snap: a new pipeline for in silico SNP discovery in a complex genome
Gerard Lazo, PhD Geneticist, USDA ARS PWA WRRC-GGD, USA
CORE Bionformatics
Oat SNPs: a new frontier
Shiaoman Chao, PhD Research Molecular Geneticist, USDA ARS Fargo, USA
CORE SNP Development Project Leader
More of oats through processing
Pekka Lehtinen, PhD, Senior Research Scientist VTT, Finland
Title to be announced
Susanne Bryngelsson, PhD Managing Director SNF, Sweden
Editor Norisk Nutrition
Food and Feed markets for Oats.
Randy Strychar, President Ag Commodity Research, Canada
OPPORTUNITIES FOR OATS - Key trends in food and health
Patricia Wiklund, Managing Director Invenire, Finland
Integrated Total Dietary Fibre Procedure; analytical and implementation challenges
Barry McCleary, CEO of Megazyme International, Ireland
President-elect AACC International
Adjunct professor of agriculture, food and natural resources at University of Sydney
Sales promotion and communication as tools to increase oat usage
Anu Kaukovirta-Norja, PhD Vice President, R&D Health Promoting Foods, Cereal technology, Malting, Brewing and Fractionation at VTT, Epso, Finland
Title to be announced
Ren Changzhong, Professor, President of the Jilin Baicheng Academy of Agriculture Science, China
Oat, β-Glucan and Health Benefits: The Viscosity Story
Susan Tosh, PhD Researcher at Guelph Food Research Centre, Canada
Studies on the quality of oat milk products
Rickard Öste, Professor of Applied Food Chemistry, University of Lund, CEO of Aventure AB, Founder of Oatly, Sweden
Dietary fibre; effects on glucose regulation
Elin Östman, Associate Professor of Applied Nutrition and Food Chemistry, University of Lund, Sweden
Developement of a mass spectrometry based high-throughut screening method of sitosterol and triglyceride composition in oat seeds
Thomas Moritz, Professor at Umeå Plant Science Center, SLU Umeå, Sweden
Title to be announced
Olof Olsson, Professor of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Gothenburg, Co-Founder of CropTailor AB , R&D Manager at CropTailor AB, Sweden
Antioxidants in Avena genetic resources
Lena Dimberg, Associate Professor at Department of Food Science, SLU, Sweden
From markers to sequence to QTL associations and back: tying modern genomics to classical breeding applications in oat.
Nicholas Tinker, PhD Research Scientist at Eastern Cereal and Oilseed Research Center, Canada
Fusarium mycotoxins in UK oat production
Simon Edwards, Research Scientist at Harper Adams University College
Trichothecenes in Oats - Occurrence, Toxicity and Risks
Hans Pettersson, Professor, Research Director at Deparment of Animal Nutrition and Management, SLU, Sweden
Title to be announced
Marcus Bräutigam, Director of the Nordic and Swedish Oat Assocations
Researcher at CropTailor AB, Co-Founder of CropTailor AB, Sweden
Title to be announced
David Cameron Sutherland, Caledonian Science Press Ltd, Spain
Fusarium Infection on Oats in Finland
Päivu Parikka, MTT Agrifood Research, Finland

Confirmed Speakers