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NuGO is an Association of Universities and Research Institutes focusing on the joint development of the research areas of molecular nutrition, personalised nutrition, nutrigenomics and nutritional systems biology.

Updated 01.07.2025

NuGO Newsletters, Annual Reports, Flyers and Publications

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!

Title: 'Molecular understandings to promote healthy and sustainable diets’
When: 22-25 September, 2025
Where: Portmarnock, Dublin, Ireland
Abstract submission is closed.
Registration: Open, register here.
Local organiser: Prof. Lorraine Brennan, University College Dublin, IE

Trainings and Courses - 2025

NEW! Nugoweek 2025 PostGraduate Course on Tools and Strategies in Dietary Assessment, find information here.
1 NuGO travel grant of €500 has been awarded.
The NuGO Bioinformatics Course on Creating publication-ready figures has been held in May & June, find information here.

Webinars - 2025

*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.

*Research at the Quadram Institute - Food & Nutrition.
When: 18 November, 15h-16:30h
The organiser of this webinar is dr. Maria Traka, Quadram Institute Bioscience, UK
More information here. Register here.

*The date, time, title and organiser will be announced at a later moment.
When: December 2025
More information here. Register here.

Questions to one of the events? please ask us under nugo[at]wur[dot]nl.

Recordings of past webinars!

NEW *20 years of NuGO – Reflecting on the Past, Present and Future of Nutrigenomics Research
When: 25 June, 15:00-16:00h CEST / 2-3PM BST
Organiser of this webinar is the ECN
More information here. Recording here.

NEW*Research at the Human Nutrition and Exercise Research Centre
When: 18 June, 10:30-12:00h CEST / 9:30-11:00 BST
Organisers of this webinar are Prof. Bernard Corfe and dr. Fiona Malcomson from Newcastle University, UK
More information here. Recording here.

-*The interplay between dietary and lifestyle factors, omics data, and cardiometabolic diseases
Prof. Marta Guasch-Ferré and Dr. Naixin Zang, University of Copenhagen
The organiser of this webinar is the ECN committee.
Recording here. More information here.

-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.

-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]
=> click to recording

- 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.
=> click to recording
- The Path to Personalized Health is Paved with Data
=> click to recording
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
=> click to recording