Karsten Koehler, assistant professor of nutrition and health sciences, and Jeffrey Stevens, associate professor of psychology, will host a public research symposium entitled "Integrating Exercise, Appetite Regulation and Food Choices for a Healthy Lifestyle: The Role of Behavioral, Physiological and Neural Mechanisms." The symposium will be held in the Center for Brain, Biology and Behavior (CB3, room B60) in UNL's East Stadium.
Funded through the University of Nebraska Food for Health Initiative, the mini-symposium is coordinated by a transdisciplinary research consortium studying the effects of exercise on decision making about future food intake. Speakers include Robin Shook, director of Weighing In, Center for Children's Healthy Lifestyles and Nutrition, Children’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City; Laura Martin, associate professor and associate director of fMRI, Hoglund Brain Imaging Center, University of Kansas Medical Center; and Aron Barbey, associate professor of psychology, neuroscience and bioengineering, and director of the Center for Brain Plasticity, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
The half-day symposium is open to the public, but advance registration is required at http://cehs.unl.edu/nhs/research-symposium-registration/
If you have questions, please contact Karsten Koehler at kkoehler3@unl.edu.