By bridging disciplines across campus, Tim Carr and Janos Zempleni work on an emerging field called nutrigenomics that, potentially, in the future could be able to match foods with an individual's unique genetic makeup to prevent disease.
NGN Headlines
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Assistant/Associate Faculty Positions in Nutritional Sciences Available at Texas Tech University. Apply by May 1, 2013
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Jing Xue Selected as a Finalist for the American Society for Nutrition’s Nutritional Sciences Council 2013 Graduate Student Research Awards Competition in Boston. February 2013
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Speakers Named for the NGN Annual Retreat - May 13, 2013, Future Leaders in Nutrigenomics
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Biomarkers of Inflammation and Malnutrition Using Metabolomics - Open Rank Position at Penn State, January 2013
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Speakers for Spring NGN Seminar Series 2013 Announced, November 2012
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Baier Receives the Widaman Trust Distinguished Graduate Assistant Fellowship Award, October 2012
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NGN Seminar Speakers Named for Fall Semester
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Save the Date for the Next NGN Retreat – May 13, 2013
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Dr. Qiaozhu Su, Assistant Professor, Joins the Nutrition and Health Sciences Faculty and NGN in the Fall of 2012
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German Exchange Student to be hosted by Drs. Zempleni and Schlegel.
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Dr. Schlegel featured in NU Foundation's 'Pride of Place' May 2012
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Eng, Norwood, and Xue receive Awards for Posters at the NGN 2012 Retreat
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Liz Cordonier Named as a National Advisory Board Member by Nutrient-Gene Interactions Research Interest Section of ASN, May 2012
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Zempleni Selected to Receive Outstanding Investigator Award 2012 by Nutrient-Gene Interactions Research Interest Section of ASN
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Toshinobu Kuroishi, Postdoc 2008 to 2011
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Sarah (Ehlers) Kiester, Nutrition, MS - 2008
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