IPC 2025 Posters & Presentations

Molecular Nutrition & Food Research - Special Issue

Molecular Nutrition & Food Research will be publishing a Special Issue based on contributions to the 18th International Scientific Conference on Probiotics, Prebiotics, Gut Microbiota and Health - IPC 2025, June 24th to 26th in Athens, Greece - “From Probiotics to Postbiotics”.

The special issue will be gratefully guest-edited by Svetoslav Dimitrov Todorov (University Sao Paolo, Brazil) and Arthur Ouwehand (IFF Health, Finland).

For centuries, the beneficial properties of microorganisms have been utilized in several ways - from their use as starter and biopreservation cultures in fermented food production to their metabolites in traditional medicine, pharmaceutical products, and other health-promoting supplements. This practice relied heavily on empirical knowledge, passed down through generations and nowadays serving as a basis for the sophisticated and personalized approaches for control and improvement of general health and specific wellbeing-related cases.

In the early 20th century, the scientific basis of the modern probiotic understanding and groundbreaking scientific interest began to emerge. In France, Ilia Metchnikoff and his collaborator Stamen Grigorov proposed that yogurt and its associated lactic acid bacteria played a significant role in promoting health. Similarly, in Japan, Dr. Shirota emerged as a visionary pioneer, introducing fermented milk products and scientifically validating the benefits of selected bacterial cultures. The fundament was lain and the remainder of the century saw a sophisticated probiotic industry grow. A century later, we can state that numerous strains of lactic acid bacteria and other microbes can be linked to a wide array of health-promoting properties and intimate mechanisms behind these processes were mapped. Slowly but surely, we are inching closer to realizing Hippocrates’ ancient wisdom: that food shall be our medicine, and medicine our food.

The scientific focus of the IPC2025 was clearly associated with fermented functional food; probiotics for humans, animals, and agriculture; probiotics and host metabolism; probiotics, prebiotics and mental health; probiotics and gut health; probiotics and host immune response; next generation probiotics; prebiotics, postbiotics and bacterial metabolites; bacteriocins and antimicrobial peptides; mechanisms of action of probiotics; formulation, production, and delivery vehicles; future visions for probiotics and opportunities; beneficial microbes and metabolites: challenges and opportunities; and all new ideas that can fit between terms “probiotics” and “postbiotics”.

The special issue will be gratefully guest-edited by Arthur C. Ouwehand, IPC Conference President (IFF Health, Kantvik, Finland) Svetoslav Dimitrov Todorov, member of the Scientific committee (Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil), both well-known representatives in the field.

The issue will publish high-quality peer-reviewed contributions, presented at IPC 2025 Athens, Greece, focusing on most recent findings of great novelty and interest.

A Dive into Molecular Nutrition & Food Research

In the realm of scientific inquiry, few fields hold as much promise and relevance to daily life as nutrition. At the forefront of this research is the esteemed journal, Molecular Nutrition & Food Research (please see some metrics, including Impact Factor).

Molecular Nutrition & Food Research serves as a source for researchers and scholars, providing a platform for the dissemination of cutting-edge research on all aspects of nutrition and food science. With over 60 years of publishing high quality original research, the journal aims to advance the field in a sustainable manner. Find out more about the journal HERE.

All contributing attendees to IPC 2025 have been invited to submit. If you have any queries or have not found your invitation to submit, please contact IPC@wrbm.com