Christian Lynch, is a 14 year resident of Bryan/College Station. A graduate student in Nutrition at Texas A&M University, he earned his BS in Nutrition from Texas A&M and anticipates completion of graduate coursework in May of 2019. His hobbies, aside from the art of cigars, include exercising, baroque music and art, and enjoying good food with his wife and best friend of 3 years. Christian’s research interests include lifestyle diseases and their mechanisms, specifically maternal epigenetic factors on fetal programming, NAFLD, and adolescent and pre-adolescent obesity. With the knowledge and tools gained from undergraduate and graduate work, Christian plans to pursue a medical degree beginning in 2019. As a cancer survivor, he places a high value on nutrition and its application in disease course and prevention.