Randy Jirtle to keynote 15th annual EACPHS Research Day Nov. 7
Internationally renowned epigenetics expert Randy Jirtle will keynote the 15th annual Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Research Day on Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2018, at 11 a.m. Posters will be on display in the Commons from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., and faculty research recognition and student poster awards will be at noon. The deadline to submit abstracts and/or register is Friday, Oct. 5. It is important that you register to attend even if you are not submitting an abstract. Registration is free.
Submission guidelines
All posters should be made to fit a board measuring 8 feet wide by 4 feet high. Students/Post-docs competing for the poster awards should plan to attend their posters from 9-10:30 a.m. and be prepared to give a 5 minute oral presentation.
Each department (Pharmaceutical Sciences, Pharmacy Practice and Health Care Sciences) will conduct an initial review of abstracts submitted by their students. The department will determine the top four abstracts to be in competition for the Best Poster Award in four categories: Basic Science, Clinical Sciences, Health Care Sciences and Post-doc.
Abstracts should be submitted online by Oct. 5.
About Randy Jirtle
Dr. Randy Jirtle headed the epigenetics and imprinting laboratory at Duke University until 2012. He is now a professor of epigenetics in the Department of Biological Sciences at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, and a senior scientist in the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.
Jirtle's research interests are in epigenetics, genomic imprinting, and the fetal origins of disease susceptibility. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles, and was a featured scientist on the NOVA television program on epigenetics, "Ghost in Your Genes." He has delivered numerous endowed lectures, and was invited to speak at the 2004 Nobel Symposia on Epigenetics. He was honored in 2006 with the Distinguished Achievement Award from the College of
Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
In 2007, Jirtle was nominated for Time Magazine's "Person of the Year." He was the inaugural recipient of the Epigenetic Medicine Award in 2008, and received the STARS Lecture Award in Nutrition and Cancer from the National Cancer Institute in 2009. Jirtle was invited in 2010 to participate in the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado, and Nestlé's 7th International Nutrition Symposium in Switzerland. Jirtle organized the Keystone Environmental Epigenomics and Disease Susceptibility meeting, received the EHP Classic Paper of the Year Award, and was invited to speak again in the Nobel Forum at an epigenomics symposium sponsored by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm in 2011.
Jirtle was invited in 2012 to present the NIH Director's WALS lecture. He participated in the World Science Festival in New York, gave the Killam Lecture at Dalhousie University, and published two books on environmental epigenomics in health and disease in 2013. He received the Jean Andrews Centennial Faculty Fellowship in Human Nutrition from the University of Texas-Austin, delivered the Robert B. Church Lecture in Biotechnology at the University of Calgary, and received the Linus Pauling Award from the Institute of Functional Medicine in 2014. In 2016, Jirtle delivered the commencement address in the Department of Biological Sciences at North Carolina State University. ShortCutsTV did an English documentary in 2017, "Are You What Your Mother Ate?: The Agouti Mouse Study," that is based upon Jirtle's epigenetic research. He received in 2018 the Northern Communities Health Foundation Visiting Professorship Award at University of Adelaide in Australia.
