Education

 

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     Educational Opportunities

  • Annual Short Course, each October, about 15 lectures over 2.5 days

  • Webinars, 6 offered each year

  • Belfort Lecture and Technical Conference is held each May, open to the public

  • Archived presentations are available to members

2026 Belfort Lecture

Hear what Francisco Vilaplana has to say about Plant cell walls, an untapped resource to close the dietary fibre gap - Video

2026 Technical Conference 

  • Mario Martinez - When starch, cell walls, and phenolics meet: shaping digestion
    and metabolism - Video
  • Osvaldo Campanella - Fiber fortification of processed foods - Video
  • Matheus Zavadinack - Decoding the structure-function relationship in complex
    carbohydrates - Video
  • Steve Lindemann - Modulating arabinoxylan fine structure to shape human gut
    microbiome structure and function -Video

Did You Know?

What are carbohydrates? 

Why do carbs have a bad rap?

Natural GLP-1 from carbohydrates?

What are dietary fibers?

Where do dietary fiber come from?

What is carrageenan?