Whistler Center - Belfort Lecture and Technical Conference
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM - Coffee & networking
8:30 AM - 8:40 AM - Introduction - Bruce Hamaker
8:40 AM - 9:40 AM - Belfort Lecture - Francisco Vilaplana - Plant cell walls: an untapped resource to close the dietary fibre gap
9:40 AM - 10:10 AM - Mario Martinez - When starch, cell walls and phenolics meet: shaping digestion and metabolism
10:10 AM - 10:30 AM - Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM - Osvaldo Campanella - Fiber fortification of processed foods
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM - Matheus Zavadinack - Decoding structure-Function relationships in complex carbohydrates
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM - Steve Lindemann - Modulating arabinoxylan fine structure to shape human gut microbiome structure and function