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NuGO Newsletter #50

NuGO's 50 edition of the newsletter is available here. In this newsletter you will find news from the NuGO office with respect to Covid-19 issues, the postgraduate course (on-line), next webinar on 31 July 2020, Oslo-Met, our new member and the NuGO annual report 2019

New ways to understand how foods affect me and my health

NuGO and NuGO ECN are pleased to announce the online launch of a new Frontiers for Young Minds Nutrigenomics Collection that seeks to bring our research to a new generation of young scientists: New ways to understand how foods affect me and my health. From 1st February 2021, you will find the full collection description on Frontiers for Young Minds website (https://kids.frontiersin.org/collections) together with the links for article submission. For more information click here  

NuGO webinar on Vitamin D, immunity and covid-19, 24 February 2021, 1400CET

Guest lecturer is Martin Hewison, PhD, Professor of Molecular Endocrinology at the University of Birmingham. This webinar will be organised on 24 February 2021, 14:00 CET. For more information and registration click here

Seminar: Hands-on 16S rRNA gene amplicon analysis, 12-14 April 2021, Virtual

This workshop, organised by ZIEL - Institute for Food & Health, Technische Universität München, will give a theoretical and most of all practical knowledge on how to analyse high-throughput sequencing data based on 16S rRNA gene amplicon libraries. Seminar leaders and instructors are: PD Dr. Klaus Neuhaus, Dr. Ilias Lagkouvardos, Sandra Reitmeier. NuGO course grants available. Deadline submission 25 March 2021. For more information click here

NuGOweek 2020 postponed till September 2021

The 17th edition of the NuGOweek will be postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic till September 2021. The NuGOweek 2021 will be held in Tarragona, Spain. The title of the 17th edition is "Bioactive food components for disease prevention: omics approaches". Photo: Patronat Municipal de Turisme de Tarragona _ Manuel R. Granell    

Postdoc position at Human Nutrition Group, UCD, Ireland

The project will involve working with Health & Happiness Group to develop new metabolomic based methods to characterise composition and function of key products. It will involve method development and application of methods to enhance our understanding of the composition of food products and link this with key functional properties. For more information visit our job offer page here 

Past EU-funded projects with NuGO as partner >>