The Nebraska Center for the Prevention of Obesity Diseases (NPOD) hosted his 16th Annual Spring Retreat on Wednesday, April 9, 2025 at the Nebraska East Union.
The symposium was attended by over 60 participants.
Featured speakers were experts on the topics of “Multi-omics Studies in Obesity and Co-morbidities”:
- Zhanghua Chen (University of Southern California)
- Joanne Cole (University of Colorado School of Medicine)
- Kari North (University of North Carolina)
Here are the winners of the best poster award:
1) Aiswariya Ravi - Gradstudent (UNL - Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences), Sathish Kumar Natarajan lab
"Investigate the role of long-chain 3 hydroxy acyl CoA dehydrogenase (LCHAD) deficiency in cardiolipin remodelling and mitochondrial dysfunction in patient derived HADHA mutant fibroblast cells"
2) Fatema Yeasmin Tanni - Gradstudent (UNL - Biochemistry), Xinghui Sun lab
"Identifying MORF4L1 as a regulator of the Vascular Endothelium"
3) Qamar Taban - postdoc (UNL - Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences), Janos Zempleni lab
"Milk Exosomes: Nanoplatforms for Syngap1 Gene Therapy in the Mouse Brain"
Congratulations!
