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Updated 06.05.2025
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Annual Conference, NuGO Week 2025
Our 21st annual conference, NuGO week 2025 is organised by University College Dublin & NuGO.
Find all information on the NuGO week 2025 website!
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS IS OPEN! Find all information here.
Title: 'Molecular understandings to promote healthy and sustainable diets’
When: 22-25 September, 2025
Where: Portmarnock, Dublin, Ireland
Abstract submission: Open, find all information here.
Registration: Open, Early Bird ends May 31, register here.
Local organizer: Prof. Lorraine Brennan, University College Dublin, IE
Trainings and Courses - 2025
- NEW! 1 NuGO travel grant of €500 is available here!
- NEW! 10 places for an online NuGO Bioinformatics Tutorial Creating publication-ready figures, information here.
Webinars - 2025
*The interplay between dietary and lifestyle factors, omics data, and cardiometabolic diseases
When: 16 May, 15-16h CEST
Prof. Marta Guasch-Ferré and Dr. Naixin Zang, University of Copenhagen
The organisers of this webinar is the ECN committee.
Register here. More information here.
*Research at the Human Nutrition and Exercise Research Centre
When: 18 June, 15-16:30h CEST
Organisers of this webinar are Prof. Bernard Corfe and dr. Fiona Malcomson from Newcastle University, UK
More information here. Register here.
*Diet, Gut Microbiome and Cardiometabolic Health: Implication of Strain-Level Diversity and Microbial Functions.
When: 14 October 15-16:30h CEST
Organiser of this webinar are Prof. Rikard Landberg and dr Clemens Wittenbecher from Chalmers University of Technology, SE
Confirmed speakers: dr Daniel Wang, Harvard Medical School, USA
More information here. Register here.
*The date, time and title will be announced later.
When: November 2025
The organiser of this webinar is dr. Maria Traka, Quadram Institute Bioscience, UK
More information here. Reigster here.
*The date, time, title and organiser will be announced at a later moment.
When: December 2025
More information here. Reigster here.
Questions to one of the events? please ask us under nugo[at]wur[dot]nl.
Recordings of past webinars!
NEW Preparing gut microbiome data for publication
Speakers: Andrea Azcarate-Peril (Gut Microbiome Editor in Chief) and
Katie Henderson (in-house Publisher for Nutrition Society journals )
The organiser of this webinar is the ECN committee. More information here.
Recording here.
-Introduction to Molecular Nutrition Research at Cornell University
The organiser of this webinar is Prof. Sander Kersten, Cornell University, USA
More information here. Recording here.
-Multi-study multi-omics data integration in precision nutrition research
'Converging Lipidomics Data across Multiple Study Types for Precision Nutrition Research’
Presented by Clemens Wittenbecher (Chalmers University, SE)
Recording can be viewed upon request, please email nugo[at]wur.nl.
-Integrating Omics with other Technologies: A New Era in Dietary Assessment for Nutrition Research
Download the flyer here.
=> Recording here.
-Precision nutrition applied to female reproductive health
Download the flyer here for more information!
Recording upon request
- Opportunities and challenges with digital health data collection and usage
Download the flyer here for more information!
Additional material:
=> click to the recording (you have to register with an email)
- How to use Artificial Intelligence in Nutrition Research [flyer: here]
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- Oral Health, organiser: Heli Viljakainen, the webinar will be shared on a later moment, due to unpublished data that was presented.
Find here the programme!
Want to see the recording, please contact us at nugo[at]wur[dot]nl.
- ZIEL Research Strategy, Food & Microbiome, Human Intervention, Career support for young Scientists.
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- The Path to Personalized Health is Paved with Data
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ELIXIR: How to find, analyse and share data’
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- Lifelines, Biobank for Life Science and Health Research
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- What does FAIR mean to you?
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- Omics for Nutrition Science 1, Nutrition Science, omics data capturing
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- Omics for Nutrition Science 2, Data analysis & infrastructure in food and nutrition
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