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Program

2nd IUPAC - International Symposium on Sweeteners
(2nd IUPAC-ISS-2001)
Comprehensive Studies on Sweetness and Human Health for the 21st Century
Date: November 13 (Tue) - 17 (Sat), 2001

Meeting Schedule (Tentative)

DATE	MORNING	AFTERNOON	EVENING
Nov. 13 (Tue.)	Opening Ceremony, Oral Sessions	Oral Sessions, Poster Sessions, Exhibition, Accompanying Person Program 1	Welcome Reception
Nov. 14 (Wed.)	Oral Sessions, Poster Sessions, Exhibition, Accompanying Person Program 2
Nov. 15 (Thu.)	Oral Sessions, Poster Sessions, Exhibition, Accompanying Person Program 3		Symposium Banquet (optional)
Nov. 16 (Fri.)	Oral Sessions, Poster Sessions, Exhibition, Closing Ceremony	Symposium Tour 1 --Miyajima Afternoon Tour (optional)--
Nov. 17 (Sat.)	Symposium Tour 2 --Setouchi Shimanami Kaido Express Tour (optional)-- (end in Kobe through Seto-Inland Sea National Park)

Language: The official language of the Meeting is English.

Luncheon Lectures: Luncheon Lectures will take place during the Symposium. Detailed information will be announced in the Preliminary Program.

Program

Simultaneous interpretation (English to Japanese) for Plenary Lectures and Symposium Lectures is available.

(PL: Plenary Lectures, S: Symposium Lectures, C: Contributed Lectures)

Nov. 13 (Tue)
9:00-9:30 Registration
9:30-10:00 Opening Ceremony
10:00-10:45 PL-1: G. G. Birch (The role of water in sweet taste chemoreception)
10:45-11:30 PL-2: M. Goodman (The molecular basis of taste of peptide and peptidomimetic sweeteners)
11:30-13:00 Lunch
13:00-13:45 PL-3: D. E. Walters (High potency sweeteners and their receptors)
13:45-14:15 S-1: C. Nofre (A GPCR-based molecular model of the human sweet-taste receptor)
14:15-14:45 S-2: A. Ohnuma (Interactions of acesulfame potassium and other high intensity sweeteners with flavors in different food products)
14:45-15:00 C-1: A. S. Szabo (Investigation of interaction in perceptibility of sweet and bitter taste)
15:00-15:30 Coffee Break
15:30-16:15 PL-4: R. F. Margolskee (Recent insights into sweet taste transduction from molecular, biochemical and transgenic studies)
16:15-16:45 S-3: G. K. Beauchamp (Genes controlling sweet perception and preference)
16:45-17:15 S-4: G. Hellekant (Neural self-organizing maps for studying sweet-taste chemoreception; Phylogeny of sweet: Mammalian species differences)
17:15-17:45 S-5: K. Sugimoto (Ion channels and second messenger systems involved in sweet taste transduction)
17:45-18:00 C-2: D. Glaser (Specialization and phyletic trends of sweetness reception in animals)
18:00-18:15 C-3: K. Isono (Drosophila sweet taste receptor)
18:30- Welcome Party

Nov. 14 (Wed)
9:00-9:45 PL-5: A. D. Kinghorn (Discovery of terpenoid and phenolic sweeteners from plants)
9:45-10:30 PL-6: L. Merlini (Isovanillyl sweeteners: From molecules to receptor(s))
10:30-10:50 Coffee Break
10:50-11:35 PL-7: I. Kitagawa (Licorice root, a natural sweetener and an important ingredient in Chinese Medicine)
11:35-12:05 S-6: T. Nomura (Biological activities of phenolic constituents of Licorice Glycyrrhiza species)
12:05-12:35 S-7: A. Higurashi (Utilization of glycoside-sweeteners from licorice and stevia in Japan)
12:35-14:15 Lunch (& Luncheon Lecture)
14:15-15:45 Poster hour (+ Coffee service) -- see below
15:45-16:15 S-8: S. V. Molinary (Benefits of Sucralose for the Diabetic Population)
16:15-16:30 C-4: A. S. MD Sofian (Synthesis and taste properties of mono-, tri- and tetra-halogenated sucrose analogues)
16:30-16:45 C-5: T. Machinami (Design and Synthesis of new sweetener)
16:45-17:15 S-9: M. G. B. Drew (Computational studies of sweet tasting compounds)
17:15-17:30 C-6: K. Jarzembek (A search for new glucophores containing sulfonyl group)
17:30-17:45 C-7: W. J. Spillane (Aspects of structure-taste studies of sulfamates RNHSO₃Na)

Nov. 15 (Thu)
9:00-9:45 PL-8: J. L. Markley (Brazzein, a potential low-calorie protein sweetener: High-resolution solution structure of the protein determined from multi-dimensional, multi-nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy)
9:45-10:15 S-10: M. Kohmura (Structure-taste relationships of the sweet protein monellin)
10:15-10:45 S-11: K. Kondo (Production of a sweet protein, monellin, in the food yeast Candida utilis)
10:45-11:05 Coffee Break
11:05-11:50 PL-9: S. Kimura (Nutritional aspects of sugars: Evaluation of new findings)
11:50-12:35 PL-10: T. Nakakuki (Present status and future of development of functional oligosaccharides in Japan)
12:35-14:05 Lunch
14:05-14:35 S-12: T. Oku (Digestion, absorption and fermentation of newly developed sugar substitutes and their available energy)
14:35-15:05 S-13: M. Munir (Some sucrose-derived sweeteners and functional oligosacchareides)
15:05-15:35 S-14: Higashiyama (Novel functions of trehalose and its application)
15:35-16:05 Coffee Break
16:05-16:35 S-15: H. Koseki (Current situation of maltitol in Japan)
16:35-17:05 S-16: K. Sawada (Current situation of sugar alcohol in Japan -focusing on erythritol-)
17:05-17:20 C-8: P. Cock (Erythritol-functionality in noncaloric functional beverages)
17:20-17:50 S-17: S. Miyagawa (Trends in the market for sugarless/low-calorie foods)
19:00- Banquet (optional)

Nov. 16 (Fri)
9:00-9:45 PL-11: S. Hamada (Role of Sweeteners in the Etiology and Prevention of Dental Caries)
9:45-10:15 S-18: M. Hirayama (Novel physiological functions of oligosaccharides)
10:15-10:30 C-9: K. Eriknauer (D-tagatose, a novel hexose: non-insulin demand and production of SCFA, especially butyrate)
10:30-11:00 S-19: H. Matsuda (Antidiabetogenic constituents from several natural medicines)
11:00-11:30 S-20: T. Konoshima (Cancer chemopreventive effects of natural sweeteners and the related compounds)
11:30-11:45 C-10: M. Nishizawa (Synthesis and anti-tumor activity of four stereoisomers of trehalose dicorynomycolates)
11:45-12:00 Closing Ceremony
Miyajima Afternoon Tour (optional)

Nov. 17 (Sat)
Setouchi Shimanami Kaido Express Tour (optional)

Poster program (Tentative):
P-1 H. Miura Molecular genetic identification of a candidate receptor gene for sweet taste
P-2 R. Nakamura Pharmacophore model of high-potency sweeteners
P-3 H. Morita Functional analyses of the gustatory taste receptor gene Tre in Drosophila: Tre alters sensitivities to a subset of sugars
P-4 J. P. Roozen Sensory evaluation of mixtures of sweeteners for soft drinks
P-5 Y. Takemura Analysis of foods containing the high intensity sweetener sucralose
P-6 W. J. Spilane Is the negative charge on RNHSO₃^-M⁺ an essential requirement for sulfamate sweetness?
P-7 J. Nuessli Dynamic sensory studies on the perception of sweet and sour in hard boiled candies based on isomalt, acesulfame-K and citric acid
P-8 M. M. Tabekha Physical, chemical and technological properties of four natural sweeteners and its using potentiality as pie filling
P-9 M. A. Zeitoun Physicochemical properties of stevia sweeteners as natural low caloric sweetener
P-10 R. Ikan Breeding Stevia rebaudiana for high production of natural sweeteners, particulary Rebaudioside A
P-11 Y. H. Choi Supercritical fluid extraction and liquid chromatography-ESI/MS analysis of stevioside from Stevia rebaudiana
P-12 E. Koyama Intestinal degradation, absorption, and hepatic metabolism of the glycosidic sweeteners, stevia mixtures
P-13 M. Takasaki Cancer chemopreventive effects of stevioside and related compounds
P-14 K. Yasukawa Inhibitory effect of crude stevioside on tumor promotion in two-stage carcinogenesis in mouse skin
P-15 A. Bassoli Design and synthesis of taste active monatin analogues
P-16 K. Nakano New sweet triterpene saponins from Albizzia myriophylla: structures of albizziasaponins
P-17 K. Ohtani Sweet pregnane glycoside from Vietnamese plant, Telosma procumbens
P-18 T. Machinami Aminoacylglycyrrhetinic acids as highly potent sweeteners
P-19 T. Machinami Sweet tasting anhydrosugars and their novel complexation of methal ion
P-20 D. Sugita Strogins induce sweet taste responses to cold water
P-21 T. Fukai Anti-Helicobacter pylori activity of triterpenoids and phenols from licorice
P-22 F. M. Assadi-Porter Brazzein, a potential low-calorie protein sweetener: correlation between the sweetness and stability of recombinant brazzein variants and hydrogen bonds detected by trans-hydrogen-bond NMR couprings
P-23 K. Maehashi Relationship between the structure and the sweetness of lysozyme
P-24 S. Nirasawa Expression of sweet and sweetness-inducing proteins in Escherichia coli
P-25 T. Ogasawara Application of ELISA method to the determination of thaumatin in foods
P-26 S. Nakamura Cellobiose tolerance test and breath hydrogen excretion in female subjects
P-27 T. Morikawa Aldose reductase inhibitory activity of several flavonoids

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9:00-9:30	Registration
9:30-10:00	Opening Ceremony
10:00-10:45	PL-1: G. G. Birch (The role of water in sweet taste chemoreception)
10:45-11:30	PL-2: M. Goodman (The molecular basis of taste of peptide and peptidomimetic sweeteners)
11:30-13:00	Lunch
13:00-13:45	PL-3: D. E. Walters (High potency sweeteners and their receptors)
13:45-14:15	S-1: C. Nofre (A GPCR-based molecular model of the human sweet-taste receptor)
14:15-14:45	S-2: A. Ohnuma (Interactions of acesulfame potassium and other high intensity sweeteners with flavors in different food products)
14:45-15:00	C-1: A. S. Szabo (Investigation of interaction in perceptibility of sweet and bitter taste)
15:00-15:30	Coffee Break
15:30-16:15	PL-4: R. F. Margolskee (Recent insights into sweet taste transduction from molecular, biochemical and transgenic studies)
16:15-16:45	S-3: G. K. Beauchamp (Genes controlling sweet perception and preference)
16:45-17:15	S-4: G. Hellekant (Neural self-organizing maps for studying sweet-taste chemoreception; Phylogeny of sweet: Mammalian species differences)
17:15-17:45	S-5: K. Sugimoto (Ion channels and second messenger systems involved in sweet taste transduction)
17:45-18:00	C-2: D. Glaser (Specialization and phyletic trends of sweetness reception in animals)
18:00-18:15	C-3: K. Isono (Drosophila sweet taste receptor)

18:30-	Welcome Party

9:00-9:45	PL-5: A. D. Kinghorn (Discovery of terpenoid and phenolic sweeteners from plants)
9:45-10:30	PL-6: L. Merlini (Isovanillyl sweeteners: From molecules to receptor(s))
10:30-10:50	Coffee Break
10:50-11:35	PL-7: I. Kitagawa (Licorice root, a natural sweetener and an important ingredient in Chinese Medicine)
11:35-12:05	S-6: T. Nomura (Biological activities of phenolic constituents of Licorice Glycyrrhiza species)
12:05-12:35	S-7: A. Higurashi (Utilization of glycoside-sweeteners from licorice and stevia in Japan)
12:35-14:15	Lunch (& Luncheon Lecture)
14:15-15:45	Poster hour (+ Coffee service) -- see below
15:45-16:15	S-8: S. V. Molinary (Benefits of Sucralose for the Diabetic Population)
16:15-16:30	C-4: A. S. MD Sofian (Synthesis and taste properties of mono-, tri- and tetra-halogenated sucrose analogues)
16:30-16:45	C-5: T. Machinami (Design and Synthesis of new sweetener)
16:45-17:15	S-9: M. G. B. Drew (Computational studies of sweet tasting compounds)
17:15-17:30	C-6: K. Jarzembek (A search for new glucophores containing sulfonyl group)
17:30-17:45	C-7: W. J. Spillane (Aspects of structure-taste studies of sulfamates RNHSO₃Na)

9:00-9:45	PL-8: J. L. Markley (Brazzein, a potential low-calorie protein sweetener: High-resolution solution structure of the protein determined from multi-dimensional, multi-nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy)
9:45-10:15	S-10: M. Kohmura (Structure-taste relationships of the sweet protein monellin)
10:15-10:45	S-11: K. Kondo (Production of a sweet protein, monellin, in the food yeast Candida utilis)
10:45-11:05	Coffee Break
11:05-11:50	PL-9: S. Kimura (Nutritional aspects of sugars: Evaluation of new findings)
11:50-12:35	PL-10: T. Nakakuki (Present status and future of development of functional oligosaccharides in Japan)
12:35-14:05	Lunch
14:05-14:35	S-12: T. Oku (Digestion, absorption and fermentation of newly developed sugar substitutes and their available energy)
14:35-15:05	S-13: M. Munir (Some sucrose-derived sweeteners and functional oligosacchareides)
15:05-15:35	S-14: Higashiyama (Novel functions of trehalose and its application)
15:35-16:05	Coffee Break
16:05-16:35	S-15: H. Koseki (Current situation of maltitol in Japan)
16:35-17:05	S-16: K. Sawada (Current situation of sugar alcohol in Japan -focusing on erythritol-)
17:05-17:20	C-8: P. Cock (Erythritol-functionality in noncaloric functional beverages)
17:20-17:50	S-17: S. Miyagawa (Trends in the market for sugarless/low-calorie foods)

19:00-	Banquet (optional)

9:00-9:45	PL-11: S. Hamada (Role of Sweeteners in the Etiology and Prevention of Dental Caries)
9:45-10:15	S-18: M. Hirayama (Novel physiological functions of oligosaccharides)
10:15-10:30	C-9: K. Eriknauer (D-tagatose, a novel hexose: non-insulin demand and production of SCFA, especially butyrate)
10:30-11:00	S-19: H. Matsuda (Antidiabetogenic constituents from several natural medicines)
11:00-11:30	S-20: T. Konoshima (Cancer chemopreventive effects of natural sweeteners and the related compounds)
11:30-11:45	C-10: M. Nishizawa (Synthesis and anti-tumor activity of four stereoisomers of trehalose dicorynomycolates)
11:45-12:00	Closing Ceremony
	Miyajima Afternoon Tour (optional)

P-1	H. Miura	Molecular genetic identification of a candidate receptor gene for sweet taste
P-2	R. Nakamura	Pharmacophore model of high-potency sweeteners
P-3	H. Morita	Functional analyses of the gustatory taste receptor gene Tre in Drosophila: Tre alters sensitivities to a subset of sugars
P-4	J. P. Roozen	Sensory evaluation of mixtures of sweeteners for soft drinks
P-5	Y. Takemura	Analysis of foods containing the high intensity sweetener sucralose
P-6	W. J. Spilane	Is the negative charge on RNHSO₃^-M⁺ an essential requirement for sulfamate sweetness?
P-7	J. Nuessli	Dynamic sensory studies on the perception of sweet and sour in hard boiled candies based on isomalt, acesulfame-K and citric acid
P-8	M. M. Tabekha	Physical, chemical and technological properties of four natural sweeteners and its using potentiality as pie filling
P-9	M. A. Zeitoun	Physicochemical properties of stevia sweeteners as natural low caloric sweetener
P-10	R. Ikan	Breeding Stevia rebaudiana for high production of natural sweeteners, particulary Rebaudioside A
P-11	Y. H. Choi	Supercritical fluid extraction and liquid chromatography-ESI/MS analysis of stevioside from Stevia rebaudiana
P-12	E. Koyama	Intestinal degradation, absorption, and hepatic metabolism of the glycosidic sweeteners, stevia mixtures
P-13	M. Takasaki	Cancer chemopreventive effects of stevioside and related compounds
P-14	K. Yasukawa	Inhibitory effect of crude stevioside on tumor promotion in two-stage carcinogenesis in mouse skin
P-15	A. Bassoli	Design and synthesis of taste active monatin analogues
P-16	K. Nakano	New sweet triterpene saponins from Albizzia myriophylla: structures of albizziasaponins
P-17	K. Ohtani	Sweet pregnane glycoside from Vietnamese plant, Telosma procumbens
P-18	T. Machinami	Aminoacylglycyrrhetinic acids as highly potent sweeteners
P-19	T. Machinami	Sweet tasting anhydrosugars and their novel complexation of methal ion
P-20	D. Sugita	Strogins induce sweet taste responses to cold water
P-21	T. Fukai	Anti-Helicobacter pylori activity of triterpenoids and phenols from licorice
P-22	F. M. Assadi-Porter	Brazzein, a potential low-calorie protein sweetener: correlation between the sweetness and stability of recombinant brazzein variants and hydrogen bonds detected by trans-hydrogen-bond NMR couprings
P-23	K. Maehashi	Relationship between the structure and the sweetness of lysozyme
P-24	S. Nirasawa	Expression of sweet and sweetness-inducing proteins in Escherichia coli
P-25	T. Ogasawara	Application of ELISA method to the determination of thaumatin in foods
P-26	S. Nakamura	Cellobiose tolerance test and breath hydrogen excretion in female subjects
P-27	T. Morikawa	Aldose reductase inhibitory activity of several flavonoids