Important dates:

Short course: July, 7^th, 2025.
Conference: July, 8^th to 10^th, 2025.
Submission deadline: February, 15^th, 2025.
Notification of acceptance: Avril, 15^th, 2025.
Inscriptions close: June, 10^th, 2025.

• MAIN PROGRAM

• BOOKLET OF ABSTRACTS - oral presentations

• BOOKLET OF ABSTRACTS - Posters

For PhDs and postdocs, two lectures (one-and-a-half hour) will be given on Monday, 7th.

Lecturer 1: Dr Claire Berton-Carabin (BIA INRAE Nantes) - "Interface-dominated food systems".

Lecturer 2: Dr Maciej Lisicki (University of Warsaw, softmatter.fuw.edu.pl) - "Culinary fluid mechanics".

A trip to Saint-Malo (by the sea) will be organized on the afternoon. Don't forget your swim suit !

• PICKFOOD PROGRAM

Dr. Marta Martínez-Sanz - Instituto de Investigación en Ciencias de la Alimentación (Madrid) - "Edible architectures: Linking multi-scale structure to digestibility in seaweed-based food systems"

Dr. Clément de Loubens - Laboratoire Rhéologie et Procédés (Grenoble) - "Aggregation and gelation of whey proteins under flow"

On Monday morning, the 7th.

Are you an early-career scientist looking to connect with peers at a similar career stage? We invite assistant and associate professors (or equivalent positions) to join us for the young faculty networking event. The event will take place on the monday morning at Rennes university. This is a great opportunity to meet like-minded researchers, pitch your work, and spark potential collaborations in a supportive community. We look forward to welcoming you to the Young Faculty Network in Food Soft Matter!

For more information or to sign up - email jack.yang@wur.nl

On Wednesday evening, in the city center of Rennes : at the Roof-Origines.

The building 2A is located on the Beaulieu Campus : Maps link.
Access by bus (from the city center) : Take the lines C4 or C6, and stop at « Tournebride » (10mins from the city center).
Access by Metro : use the B line up to « Beaulieu Université » station, then 10 minutes walk to building 2A.

All the hotels in the city center of Rennes, close to the train station, etc... are of high quality and can be contacted for reservation. You can use all the standard web plateforms for booking your hotels ; you may also check HERE at the Rennes Tourism Office.

Click on the following link for registration and payment through 'azur-colloque' : REGISTER HERE

With your registration, please fill the following form, providing the organisers with some practical details about your stay: information form