15th EMBL|EMBO Science and Society Conference: Foods are us! On eating and becoming

• The main aim of these joint meetings is to present important areas of life science research in a manner accessible to all, and to promote reflection on their implications. At the same time, they should facilitate a broad dialogue between biologists, behavioral and social scientists, students of all disciplines, and members of the public. 

• Topics
  • Food, Science and Human Variation
  • The Nature and Nurture of Food Preferences
  • Food and The Metabolic Environment
  • Food, Health and Disease

Simon Carding
 Institute of Food Research and Norwich Medical School at UEA, United Kingdom

Hannelore Daniel
 Technische Universität München (TUM), Germany

Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson  
Columbia University, USA


Claude Fischler 
 École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France

Paolo Gasparini , 
University of Trieste, Italy


Jason Halford , 
University of Liverpool, United Kingdom

Jim Kaput
   Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences, Switzerland

Hannah Landecker
  UCLA, USA

Michael Müller
 University of East Anglia, UK

José Ordovas
 Tufts University, USA


Michael Richards
 The University of British Columbia, Canada



Erin M. Schuman 
MPI for Brain Research, Germany




Blanche Schwappach
 Göttingen University Medical School, Germany


Charles Spence 
University of Oxford, United Kingdom


Mark Thomas
 University College London, United Kingdom



Ben van Ommen
  TNO, The Netherlands



You can register at:

http://www.embl.de/training/events/2014/SNS14-01/registration/index.html