Speakers

Food scientist by training, Andrea has over 20 years of professional experience in both academic research and in the support to risk assessment activities and the coordination of scientific working groups. He holds a degree and a PhD in food science and technologies and specialised on the assessment of food biomolecules and their characterisation.
Andrea joined the European Food Safety Authority in 2008 where he has been working on the safety assessment of innovative food products and in the support and coordination of cross-cutting scientific activities. Andrea currently leads the Novel Foods team and coordinates the activities of the expert working group on Novel Foods. In his current role he coordinates the support to the safety assessment of Novel foods performed by the EFSA NDA Panel and interfaces in the regulatory context with the European Commission and its committees.

TITLE OF THE LECTURE: Regulatory and safety aspects of novel food and ingredients from plants and herbs

He graduated in Agricultural Biotechnologies from the University of Pisa in 2010 and got a PhD in Plant Science at the University of Pisa and Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in 2014. He was a visitor at the Victoria University of Wellington (NZ), studying the photoprotective role of anthocyanins in wild and cultivated species subjected to abiotic stressors.
Marco Landi is currently professor of Agricultural Chemistry at the Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment - University of Pisa. His scientific interest is mainly focused on the structural, biochemical, molecular and physiological mechanisms through which plants accommodate environmental stress. Recent projects include: (i) photoprotective role of anthocyanins and flavonoids sensu lato in plants subjected to high irradiances; (ii) photosynthetic performances and metabolomic adjustments of tree and herbaceous species to Global Change factors, including drought, salinity and high temperature; (iii) role of red pigments bryophytes with a focus on New Zealand liverwort species.
He is author of more than 250 research/congress papers, 160 of them published in international journals. Associate Editor of Photosynthetica, Frontiers in Plant Science, Heliyon, Marco Landi is a member of the Italian Society of Agricultural Chemistry since 2014.

TITLE OF THE LECTURE: Metabolic responses of mountain species to abiotic stress

He studied Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Innsbruck. After receiving his Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Biology from the University of Munich he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Developmental and Cell Biology of the University of California, Irvine. Since 2001 he is Full Professor of Pharmacognosy at the Institute of Pharmacy of the University of Innsbruck. From 2004 until 2022 he was the Dean of Study Affairs of the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy. He retired in September 2022.
His main research interests are: isolation and structural elucidation of secondary metabolites from higher plants with anti-inflammatory and antitumor activity, analysis and quality assessment of (medicinal) plants and phytopharmaceuticals, discovery of pharmacologically active natural products by means of computer aided models.
He is author of more than 400 publications in international scientific journals. Since 2006 he is president of the Herbal Medicinal Products Platform Austria (HMPPA).

TITLE OF THE LECTURE: Bioactive natural compounds: Alpine plants as promising sources