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By Emily Ford
Salisbury Post
The UNC Nutrition Research Institute is wasting no time making a name for itself locally and worldwide.
In addition to giving free nutrition classes at Cannon Village starting next month, the institute will host its first international conference in May.
The institute’s new building on the N.C. Research Campus will not even be open, so the May 12-14 conference will be held in Concord. But participants will come to Kannapolis to tour the campus.
Some may want to work there.
Organizers will invite about 70 physicians and scientists to the conference, titled “Multi-disciplinary Workshop on Nutrition, Brain Development and Aging: Genetics, Epigenetics and Behavior.”
It could get rowdy.
Dr. Steve Zeisel, director of the Nutrition Research Institute in Kannapolis, has some help organizing the event from colleagues at Boston University and Duke University.
This conference differs from the one held last spring, which served as a coming out party for the N.C. Research Campus. All seven universities with a presence on campus hosted that event, titled “Who We Are & What We Eat: the Role of Metabolomics and Nutrigenomics in Creating Healthful Foods and Healthier Lives.”
It attracted more than 200 participants, when organizers had to cut off registration.