Anna Salvador Receives Travel Award
Anna Salvador, a rising third year nutrition PhD student in Dr. David Threadgill’s laboratory, received a travel award from the American Society for Nutrition at the Aegean Conference. The Aegean Conference is the first International Conference on Precision Nutrition and Metabolism in Public Health and Medicine. The conference was held in Crete, Greece on September 21-26, 2018. Anna presented a platform talk, ‘Implementing precision dietetics to predict metabolic health in a genetically heterogeneous mouse model’, where she described her work toward identifying a biomarker for metabolic sensitive to carbohydrate consumption.