Call for Abstracts 2025

5th INTERNATIONAL FOOD RESEARCH WORKSHOP.

IN THE CHIHUAHUAN DESERT REGION.


International Cooperation and Food Safety and Availability in a Changing World.

To be held at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, with the participation of the Departments of Chemical-Biological Sciences, Health Sciences and Veterinary Sciences, in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico, on May 19 and 20, 2025.


  • Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez (UACJ).
  • Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua (UACH).
  • New Mexico State University (NMSU).
  • Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila (UAC).
  • Centro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo (CIAD, A.C.), Unidad Cuauhtémoc.

Food research is crucial to address global challenges such as food security, sustainability and nutrition. Through innovation and scientific development, it is possible to improve the quality of life, promote more efficient agricultural practices and create safer and more nutritious food products. Multidisciplinary and inter-institutional collaboration allows for the integration of diverse knowledge and experiences, enriching the proposed solutions and promoting a holistic approach. This symposium seeks to encourage this type of collaboration, understanding that the sum of efforts from different areas of knowledge can generate significant and lasting advances.

Therefore, researchers, teachers and undergraduate and graduate students from the different departments of the participating institutions, as well as from other institutions in the region, are invited to present works that contribute to the advancement of science, technology or food production for humans and animals, according to the following thematic areas.

Call for Abstracts.

In all areas of Food Research carried out in the Chihuahuan Desert region, including food for humans and animals, nutritional, health, and toxicological aspects of food, production, processing, and marketing of food, agricultural practices, animal husbandry, and sensory analysis of food, among others.


Circular economy in human food and animal feed production (use of by-products for the formulation of food products, strategies to optimize the use of resources in food production, etc.) CIE
Food safety (food microbiology, food safety, packaging and transportation, conservation, shelf life, etc.) FSA
New alternatives in food production and processing (new agricultural and animal husbandry practices, innovations in food formulation and processing, sensory evaluation of new food products, etc.) FPP
New challenges in nutrition and health (intestinal microbiome, nutrigenomics, health impact of ultra-processed foods, nutrition in vulnerable populations, malnutrition, obesity, diabetes, etc.) NUH
Functional foods and nutraceuticals (formulation and characterization of functional foods, biological effects of bioactive compounds and foods, etc.) FFN
Non-conventional and ethnic foods for human and animal consumption (edible natural resources, use of new food ingredients, etc.) NCF
Academy-industry interphase (main challenges facing the food industry in the region and its links with academia). IN



The abstract should be written in Arial 12 font, leaving 2.0 cm in the margins and single line spacing, and justified text. It should contain the following sections:

  • Title (bold, centered, first letter capitalized, no period).
  • Full names, ORCID, institution of affiliation, and email address of all authors. The name of the corresponding author must be indicated with an asterisk (*) and the legend "Corresponding Author".
  • Structured abstract, maximum of 250 words, including: Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, and Conclusions.
  • 3-5 Keywords.
  • Thematic area in which it will be presented.
  • Presentation modality.
  1. Poster (P)
  2. Oral Presentation (O)
  3. Video Conference Presentation (V)

Poster presentations must be in English and must conform to the following dimensions: 1.20 m x 0.90 m, oriented vertically, made of any material. At least one of the authors must be present at least 15 minutes before and during the entire poster session, to provide feedback to attendees (questions and answers). Questions and answers may be in English or Spanish.

Oral presentations should preferably be in English, but presentations in Spanish will be accepted if the slides are in English. The presentation time will be 15 minutes with an additional 5 minutes for feedback with the attendees (questions and answers). To keep the schedule on track, all presenters are requested to adhere to these time limits when preparing their slides. The slides should be in 16:9 widescreen format.

Videoconferences will follow the same conditions as oral presentations. A backup video of the videoconference must be submitted no later than 3 days before the presentation date. The presenter should join the virtual room 10 minutes before the scheduled time of the session and remain there during the whole session.