INVITED SPEAKERS

Aedin Cassidy
Director for Interdisciplinary Research at the Institute for Global Food Security
Chair in Nutrition & Preventive Medicine and Director for Interdisciplinary Research
Institute for Global Food Security, Queen’s University, Belfast.
College of Science and Technology, Temple University
The title of the lecture: Plant-rich diets, dietary flavonoids and health
Biographical note: She is currently the Co-Director of a €35M Co-Centre on Sustainable Food Systems. Her research has focused on determining the relative importance of different flavonoids for health, leading clinical trials, combined with large population-based prospective data, bioavailability and mechanistic studies.


