The Nebraska Center for the Prevention of Obesity Diseases will host this year’s annual retreat on April 18 at the Sheldon Museum of Art. This will be the 8th annual retreat sponsored by Nebraska Gateway to Nutrigenomics, and now NPOD.
The retreat will be a free, daylong event for faculty, postdocs, students, staff, industry partners and other interested parties to provide an opportunity to explore relevant topics and to network with fellow researchers in academia and industry.
The theme this year is “Inflammation, Signaling and Metabolic Disease” and will feature four nationally recognized experts: Dr. Harmeet Malhi from the Mayo Clinic, Dr. Ryan O’Connell from the University of Utah, Dr. Ennio Tasciotti from Houston Methodist Hospital Research Institute and Dr. Mélanie Dieudé from the Canadian National Transplant Research Program.
The retreat will conclude in the afternoon with a poster session that will provide an opportunity for graduate students and postdoctoral researchers to showcase their research. The posters will be judged by NPOD/NGN faculty. Certificates and cash awards will be presented at the end of the day for the top three posters.
While there is no fee to attend the retreat, registration in advance is required. Seating is limited. Registrations will be filled on a first-come basis and will close when all seats are reserved or by April 3 at the latest. Free registration includes continental breakfast, lunch and closing reception with poster competition awards. Graduate students and postdoctoral researchers are invited to enter a poster for the competition when completing the registration form.
For more information and a complete schedule of events, click here.
Funding for this retreat has been provided by generous support through the National Institute Of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number P20GM104320.
