Conference program

Wednesday, May 13th 2026

12:00 – 13:00 Registration

13:00 – 14:00 Welcome Buffet

14:00 – 14:30 Opening Isofood Conference. Damiano Gianelle – Director of the Research and Innovation Centre

Session: Non-conventional stable isotopes

14:30 – 15:15 Keynote presentation. Oliver Donard

15:15 – 15:30 Using strontium isotopes and a dynamic confidence interval to counter food fraud in Alpine bread. Felix Bacher

15:30 – 15:45 Inorganic and isotopic analyses for honey traceability. Jordan Furst

15:45 – 16:15 Coffee Break and Poster Session

Session: Food webs and trophic niches

16:15 – 17:00 Keynote presentation. David Soto

17:00 – 17:15 Integrating Elemental-Isotopic Fingerprinting and Blockchain Technology for the Traceability of Molluscs
                                from the Goro Lagoon: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Food Authenticity. Elisa Pignoni

17:15 – 17:30 Step by step: how ungulate individual behaviour can contribute to nutrients' flow in Alpine ecosystems. Francesca Cagnacci

17:30 – 17:45 Multidimensional isotopic niches inform coexistence mechanisms in an Alpine ungulate community. Charlotte Vanderlocht

17:45 – 18:00 Closure Conference Day One

18:00 - 19:00 Guided tour of the historic cellar

Thursday, May 14th 2026

Session: Quality and sources of water

09:00 – 09:45 Keynote presentation. Pascal Boeckx

09:45 – 10:00 Metabolic Profiling of Tomatoes Irrigated with Treated Wastewater: Insights from Explainable Machine Learning. Anja Vehar

10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break and Poster Session

Session: Food quality and safety

10:30 – 11:15 Keynote presentation. Simon Kelly

11:15 – 11:30 Multi-isotopic dilution QQQ-ICP/MS for high geographical discrimination of origin and quality assessment in wine: developing a
                                world database and demonstration of its potential of applications. Véronique Vacchina

11:30 – 11:45 Tracing the Production Chain of Aceto Balsamico Tradizionale di Modena using Carbon Isotope Ratios. Veronica D'Eusanio

11:45 – 12:00 Geographical Origin Authentication of Extra Virgin Olive Oil through Stable Isotope Ratios and Multivariate Statistical Analysis.
                                Francesco Romaniello

12:00 – 12:15 Authenticity assessment of black pepper through isotope, elemental, and IR fingerprinting coupled to statistical and machine
                                learning methods. Ariana Raluca Magdas

12:15 – 12:45 Solutions for elemental and isotopic analysis of food matrices: future perspective with Elementar. Pasquale Carlino

12:45 – 13:00 Elementar Instruments Insights.

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

Session: Metrology and reference materials

14:00 – 14:35 Keynote presentation. Organic stable isotope reference material replacements and new developments at Indiana University.
                                        Arndt Schimmelmann

14:35 – 15:10 Keynote presentation. Federica Camin

15:10 – 15:30 Panel discussion on metrology and reference materials

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break and Poster Session

Session: Foodomics, nutrition and health

16:00 – 16:45 Keynote presentation. Green Extraction of Bioactive Compounds from Algae and Investigation of Their Biological Properties.
                                        Alejandro Cifuentes

16:45 – 17:00 Application of NMR spectroscopy and metabolomics in food science. Pavel Solovyev

17:00 – 17:15 Multi-omics and isotopic data fusion for reliable Italian wine provenance studies. Raffaello Nardin

17:15 – 17:30 Surface Spots Formation in Vacuum-Packaged Speck: Implications for Food Quality Assessed through a Multidisciplinary
                                Approach. Flavia Bianchi

17:30 – 17:45 Ion Mobility Spectrometry Coupled with Gas Chromatography (GC‑IMS) within the ICQRF Analytical Strategy. Stefania Carpino

17:45 – 18:00 Closure Conference Day Two

20:00 – 24:00  Social Dinner Sala Gerola, Castello del Buonconsiglio

Friday, May 15th 2026

Session: Isotopes applied to plants and soil sciences

09:00 – 09:45 Keynote presentation. Kristian Holst Laursen

09:45 – 10:00 Isotope - Based Provenance Mapping for Brazilian of Bioproducts. Luiz Antonio Martinelli

10:00 – 10:15 World Forest ID - High resolution soybean tracing for deforestation-free supply chains. Victor Deklerck

10:15 – 10:30 Sustainable improvement of food: investigating the effects of soybean-microbial interactions using stable N and C isotopes.
                                Raminta Skipitytė

10:30 – 10:45 Coffee Break

Session: Food authenticity and traceability

11:00 – 11:15 Keynote presentation. Nives Ogrinc

11:45 – 12:00 Data fusion strategies integrating EA-IRMS, HRMS and spectroscopic data for improved geographical authentication of extra
                                virgin olive oils. Duccio Tatini

12:00 – 12:15 Evaluation of Sorbitol as an Endogenous Isotopic Reference Marker Compound for the Detection of C4-type Sugar Adulteration
                                in Apple Juice. Mike Seed

12:15 – 12:30 From Fresh Tomatoes to Passata: Fraction-Resolved Stable Isotope Evidence for Processing Traceability and Product Authenticity.
                                Oana-Romina Botoran

12:30 – 12:45 Beyond Accuracy: Comparing ML and Chemometric Models for Food Provenance Verification. Lidija Strojnik

12:45 – 13:00 Vaia Talk and Ceremony Awards

13:00 – 13:15 Conference Closure Day Three

13:15 – 14:15 Light Farewell Buffet