This Symposium aims to equip young scientists and students doing research in nutrition-related fields to utilize and apply the new 'omics' sciences to their research.

This Symposium aims to give an overview of the application of nutrigenomics in functional food science. Topics to be presented include substantiation of functional ingredients through appropriate molecular biomarkers, assessment of functionality through nutritional epidemiology, and utilizing nutrigenomics as a substantiation tool for functional food claims.

The objective of this workshop is to provide attendees with a fundamental understanding of the various types of intellectual properties (IP), as well as how you could exploit and manage your IPs.

This interactive workshop will comprise of an overview which will bring you through the various IPs, such as copyright, trademarks, patents designs and trade secrets. There will be interactive case studies which will assist you in identifying IPs at your workplace and also how you could protect your IPs to your best advantage. We will also touch on the infringement of IPs and the consequences. The Singapore Copyright and Patents Act may be referred to.