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NGx: a short course on Nutrigenetics, Nutrigenomics and Precision Health
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Designed for graduate students, health professionals and nutrition scientists from academia, agencies, and industry
This course delivers fundamental NGx concepts and addresses barriers that impede translation of research results from laboratories to people by bringing together researchers and practitioners in NGx concepts ranging from cell biology to dietetics.
Presented by: UNC Nutrition Research Institute (NRI) and UNC Nutrition and Obesity Research Center (NORC)
Speakers include:
Keynote Speaker: Robert A. Waterland, PhD
Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Department of Molecular & Human Genetics
USDA/ARS Children’s Nutrition Research Center
Baylor College of Medicine
Brian Bennett, PhD
Research Leader, Obesity and Metabolism Research
US Department of Agriculture
Cory Brouwer, PhD
Director of the Bioinformatics Services Division and
Associate Professor of Bioinformatics and Genomics
UNC Charlotte
Carol L. Cheatham, PhD
Associate Professor, Psychology & Neuroscience
UNC Nutrition Research Institute
Stephen Hursting, PhD
Professor, Nutrition
Director, UNC Nutrition Research Institute
Martin Kohlmeier, MD, PhD
Professor, Nutrition
UNC Nutrition Research Institute
Natalia Krupenko, PhD
Associate Professor, Nutrition
UNC Nutrition Research Institute
Katie Meyer, ScD
Assistant Professor, Nutrition
UNC Nutrition Research Institute
Kari North, PhD
Professor
UNC Department of Epidemiology
Susan Smith, PhD
Professor of Nutrition
UNC Nutrition Research Institute
Susan Sumner, PhD
Professor, Nutrition
UNC Nutrition Research Institute
Elizabeth Tejero, PhD
Head of the Laboratory
Laboratory of Nutrigenomics and Nutrigenetics
National Institute of Genomic Medicine,
Mexico City, Mexico
Margarita Teran-Garcia, PhD
Assistant Dean for Integrated Health Disparities Programs
Integrated Health Disparities
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Felipe Vadillo Ortega, PhD
Professor, School of Medicine, U.N.A.M.
National Institute of Genomic Medicine (INMEGEN)
Mexico City, Mexico
Saroja Voruganti, PhD
Associate Professor, Nutrition
UNC Nutrition Research Institute