ASIC 2021

Opening Session

Virtual Room 1

Chair: Astrid Nehlig

•  Astrid Nehlig - ASIC president
•  Benoît Bertrand - ASIC secretary

•  S0-KN - The future of the coffee industry. A strategy for the Green New Deal
  Andrea Illy (President of Illycaffè SpA, Triestre, Italy - Honorary president ASIC)

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Session 9: Consumption, Health & Safety

Virtual Room 1

Chair: Astrid Nehlig

•  S9-KN - Will it keep me awake? Common coffee / caffeine intake habits and sleep in real life situations
  Dr Hans-Peter Landolt (Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology - University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland)

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•  Questions / Answers

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Session 2: Plant pathology & protection

Chair: Maria Do Céu Silva

•  S2-KN - IGlobal change: Adapting coffee pest and disease management
  Prof. Karen A. Garrett and Aaron I. Plex Sulá (Plant pathology department - University of Florida, Gainesville, USA)

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•  Questions / Answers

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Session 8: Coffee chemistry & sensory sciences

Virtual Room 1

Chairs: Valérie Leloup & Imre Blank

•  S8-O-01 - A New (Sensory and Consumer) Coffee Brewing Control Chart
  Jean-Xavier Guinard (UC Davis Coffee Center, University of California, Davis, California, United States)
•  S8-O-02 - Modelling molecular release in coffee brewing
  John Melrose (Consultant, Church Close Great Bourton, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom)
•  S8-O-03 - The role of ethyl esters in green coffee: flavor or off-flavor precursors?
  Valentina Lonzarich (Aromalab - llycaffè spa, Trieste, Italy)

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•  S8-O-04 - Furan formation in coffee - Role of precursors and impact of the roast degree on reaction pathways
  Luigi Poisson (Nestlé PTC Beverage Orbe, Société Produits Nestlé SPN, Orbe, Switzerland)
•  S8-O-05 - Identification of coffee compounds that suppress bitterness of the brew
  Chengyu Gao (Department of Food Science and Technology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States)
•  S8-O-06 - Characterisation of volatile and non-volatile compounds in cascara, a traditional beverage made from dried coffee pulp
  Aileen Pua (Food Science and Technology, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore)

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•  Questions / Answers

Session 1: Plant science

Session 2: Plant pathology & protection

Virtual Room 2

Chairs: Alexandre de Kochko & Maria Do Céu Silva

•  S1-O-01 - Application of phylogenomics to reconstruct the evolutionary origin of Coffea arabica
  Yves Bawin (Plant Sciences Unit, Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food (ILVO), Melle, Belgium)
•  S1-O-02 - Study of circadian regulation of primary metabolism in coffee plant is key to develop coffee varieties adapted to climate change
  Jean-Christophe Breitler (CoffeAdapt team, UMR DIADE, CIRAD, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico)

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•  S2-O-02 - Scaled-up genomic data uncovers a higher level of population genetic structuring in Hemileia vastatrix
  Ana Sofia B. Rodrigues (cE3c – Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes, Lisboa, Portugal)
•  S2-O-03 - ExpeRoya, a comprehensive model to forecast the risk of coffee leaf rust on Coffea arabica in Central America
  Natacha Motisi (PRISM/PHIM/BIOS, Univ. Montpellier, CIRAD, Montpellier, France, CIRAD & CATIE, Turrialba, Costa Rica)
•  S2-O-04 - Identification of Hemileia vastatrix candidate effectors reveals new ways of promoting pathogen variability through alternative splicing
  Silvia Tavares (CIFC, LEAF, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Oeiras, Portugal)

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•  Questions / Answers

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