The conference will be held at the Nordic house , Sturlugata 5 101 Reykjavik.

Day 0: Sunday, September 14th 2008

12.00-17.00 Registration and poster/exhibition setup in Nordic house.

Day 1: Monday, September 15th 2008

8.00 Registration and poster/exhibition setup

9.00 Welcome by Sjöfn Sigurgísladóttir, Director of Matís, Food Research, Innovation and Safety.

Session 1: New Techniques

9.15 Adrian Charlton (UK) High Resolution NMR Analysis of Complex Mixtures (abstract )

10.35 Coffee

10.35 Tina Salomonsen (DK): Seaweed Polysaccharides Studied by Solution- and Solid-State NMR and Chemometrics (abstract )

10.55 John van Duynhoven (NL): NMR-based metabonomics approaches for the assessment of the metabolic impact of dietary polyphenols on humans (abstract )

11.15 Nanna Viereck (DK): HR MAS NMR: Profiling Metabolites in Single-Kernels (abstract )

11:35 Francois Mariette (FR): Microstructure Investigations of Concentrated Dairy Gels by Real-Time NMR Diffusion Experiments (abstract )

11.55 Lunch

12:55 Gisela Guthausen (D): Developments in Time Domain and Single Sided NMR (abstract )

13.45 Mohamed Mouaddab (FR): Absolute Quantification and Localization of ²³Na Bound Fraction by Double-Quantum Filtered NMR Spectroscopy and Imaging (abstract )

14.05 Mallory Gobet (FR): Investigation of Sodium Ions in Food Models by ²³Na NMR Spectroscopy (abstract )

14.25 Simona Baroni (IT): Applications of Field Cycling Relaxometry to Food Characterization (abstract )

14.45 Tea

15.15 Petra Först (D): A Low Resolution ¹H NMR Study to Investigate the Protective Mechanism of Sorbitol during Vacuum Drying of a Probiotic Micro-organism (abstract )

15.35 Dirk Mertens (D): A Low-Field-NMR Capillary Rheometer (abstract )

15.55 Gianfranco Mazzanti (CA): Development of a Rheo-NMR System to Study the Crystallisation of Bulk Lipids under Shear Flow (abstract )

16.15 Eberhard Humpfer (D): NMR-based Multi Parametric Quality Control of Fruit Juices (abstract )

16.35 Bruce J. Balcom (Can): SPRITE MRI of Food Materials - Oil Migration Chocolate Confections (abstract )

17.05 Close and posters

18:00 Dinner at Thorvaldssen bar, downtown Reykjavík

Day 2: Tuesday, September 16th 2008

Session 2: Food systems and processing

9.00 Yael Vodovotz (US) Effect of Soy on Water Mobility of Microwavable Frozen Doughs (abstract )

9.50 Corinne Rondeau-Mouro (FR) ³¹P Solid-State NMR of Cheese (abstract )

10.10 Maja Musse (FR) MRI for Studying of Tomato Fruit (abstract )

10.30 Coffee

11:00 Marit Aursand (N), NMR Studies of Fish and Fish Products with Emphasis on Industrial Challanges (abstract )

11.50 Antonio G. Ferreira (BR): SNIF-NMR and Chemometrics Methods Applied to ¹H NMR in the Study of Brazilian Brandy Authenticity (abstract )

12.20 Liezel Retief (SA): Identification and Quantification of Major Components in Selected South African produced Vegetable Oils by ¹³C NMR Spectroscopy (abstract )

12.40 Francesco Savorani (DK) Pomodoro di Pachino: An Authenticity Study Using ¹H-NMR and Chemometrics Protecting its P.G.I. European Certification (abstract )

13.10 Lunch

14.10 Audrey Tardieu (FR): Quantitative 1D and 2D ¹H-NMR Analysis of Taste Compounds from Raw and Fried Tissues of Allium cepa L. Investigation of Aqueous Solutions Made from these Tissues (abstract )

14.30 Jan Schripsema (BR): Analysis of Butter and Margarine by High-Resolution ¹H NMR (abstract )

14.40 Matthieu Adam Berret (FR): Effect of Fat Chrystal Network Organization on Time Domain NMR Parameters (abstract )

15.10 Tea

Session 3 ESR and other techniques

15.40 Eric Marchioni (FR) ESR for Food Irradiation Detection (abstract )

16.25 Andreas Kamlowski (D): Applications of CW-EPR for in Food Irradiation Control and R&D (abstract )

16.45 Posters

18.00 Conference dinner at Blue Lagoon - Departure from Fosshotel Baron at 18:00

Day 3: Wednesday, September 17th 2008

Session 3 ESR and other techniques (cont)

9.00 Jun Jie Yin (US): ESR Studies on Anti- or Pro-Oxidant Activities of Dietary Supplements (abstract )

9.50 Peter Belton (UK): Water/Biopolymer Interactions: Comparison of NMR with Other Techniques (abstract )

Session 4: Fish and meat

10.10 Maria Gudjonsdottir (IS), Low Field NMR study on Wild and Farmed Atlantic Cod (Gadus morhua) (abstract )

11.00 Inger B. Standal (N) : Positional Distribution of Fatty Acids in Triacylglycerols and Phospholipids of Different Fish Species Obtained by HR ¹³C NMR (abstract )

11.20 Coffee

11.50 Hanne Bertram (DK) NMR Studies of Meat and Meat Products (abstract )

12.40 Ida G. Aursand (N): Water Dynamics in Cod and Salmon Studied by Low-Field ¹H NMR T2 relaxation (abstract )

13.00 Emil Veliyulin (N): Use of SPRITE MRI for Quantitative Sodium Imaging of Model Food Samples (abstract )

13.20 Conference close and summing up

13.30 Lunch

14.00 Golden Circle Excursion - Departure from the Nordic House