The Nebraska Center for the Prevention of Obesity Diseases (NPOD) hosted his 10th Annual Research Symposium on Tuesday, October 8, 2024 at the Nebraska East Union.
The symposium was attended by over 60participants.
Featured speakers were experts on the topics of “Epigenetics in Obesity and Co-morbidities”:
- Paul Cohen (Rockefeller University)
- Heather Lawson (Washington Univ. School of Medicine in St. Louis)
- Alina Maloyan (Oregon Health & Science Univ.)
Here are the winners of the best poster award:
1) Xu Shi - Gradstudent (UNL - Food Science & Technology), Amanda Ramer-Tait lab
"The gut microbiota modulates the severity of experimental autoimmune myocarditis"
2) Weilun Ai - Gradstudent (UNMC - Department of Internal Medicine), Viswanathan Saraswathi lab
"Antagonism of Thromboxane-Prostanoid Receptor Attenuates Alcohol-Induced Myocardial Inflammation"
3) Peerzada T. Mumtaz - postdoc (UNL - Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences), Janos Zempleni lab
"Bifidobacterium infantis Extracellular Vesicles: Composition and Potential to Modulate Host Biological Processes via Cross-Kingdom Communication"
Congratulations!
