End symposium
On 6 October 2026, the ALLPreT consortium organised its online end symposium: a half-day programme open to researchers, regulators, policymakers and anyone interested in advancing allergenicity prediction and risk assessment of novel foods.
Scientific webinar
The ALLPreT end symposium is structured as a scientific webinar, in which we combine the research presentations with opportunities for Q&A and discussion.
The scientific presentations will cover new data and methods related to:
- Protein structure and stability
- Digestion, immune responses, and sensitisation
- Data that can feed into vitro, in vivo and in silico prediction tools
- Computational modelling and data integration for evidence-based risk assessment
Topics for discussion include:
- The current readiness level of different prediction tools
- What is still needed for further development and validation for regulatory application
- Priorities for future collaborative research initiatives
Date: 6 October 2026
Time: 9.00 - 13.00 CEST
Location: Online
Watch the video to learn more about ALLPreT and to get an overview of the research projects that we presented.
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Programme
| 9.00 | Welcome and introduction | Kitty Verhoeckx |
| Theme 1: Threshold of sensitisation, in silico models, epitope mapping | ||
| 9.15 | Food allergy and threshold of sensitisation | Sim Ray Yue (DTU) |
| 9.30 | AllerGenesis: An integrated cleavage-to-structure pipeline for allergenicity risk assessment | Nida Ansari (MUS) |
| 9.45 | What makes a protein an allergen? Epitope mapping towards the assessment of novel legume allergenicity | Ana Laura Olivares Martinez (PEI) |
| 10.00 | Q&A Theme 1 | |
| Theme 2: Intestinal and endolysosomal digestion, skin and intestinal models | ||
| 10.15 | Brush Border Membrane Vesicles as a supplementary step in the INFOGEST in Vitro Gastrointestinal Digestion Model: Implications for proteolysis | Elva Zenaida Gonzales Nieto (INRAE) |
| 10.30 | Endolysosomal Degradation Assay to Determine Food Allergen Stability and Immunogenicity | Elif Öztemiz Topcu (PLUS) |
| 10.45 | Models for skin sensitization and activation | Birte Hell (UMCU) |
| 11.00 | Modeling early events in food allergy sensitization: insights from intestinal epithelial barrier models | Faiza Zafar (UBFC) |
| 11.15 | Q&A Theme 2 | |
| 11.30 | Break | |
| Theme 3: In vivo models | ||
| 11.45 | Different routes, different reactions? Understanding food allergy through experimental mouse models | Maysam Taheri (MUW) |
| 12.00 | In vivo prediction model | Katrine Lindholm Bøgh on behalf of Behnaz Shafie (DTU) |
| 12.15 | Biomarkers of in vitro immune responses in legume allergy | Isabela Assugeni (LIH) |
| 12.30 | Q&A Theme 3 | |
| 12.45 | Allergenicity risk assessment of innovative proteins in the EU: requirements, knowledge gaps and research needs | Antonio Fernandez Dumont (EFSA) |
| 13.00 | Closure |
Registration
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