Powell-Young, YM (2015, July). Association of Black Nursing Faculty Annual Conference, New York, NY.

Powell-Young, YM and Baker, JR (2014, December). Ancestry, Genetic Variation and Pedia International Symposium on Minority Health and Health Disparities, National Harbor, MD.

Baker, JR and Powell-Young, YM (2014, December). E-Health and Health Literacy in Older African Americans. International Symposium on Minority Health and Health Disparities, National Harbor, MD.

Zabaleta, J., Estrada, J., Valesco-Gonzalez, C., Pelligrino, M., Mohler, R., Scribner, T., Tseng, A., Arguello, A., Sothern, M., Rauvussin, E., & Powell-Young, Y. (2013, November). Inflammation is not a driver of abnormal metabolic parameters in Pre-Pubertal Youth. The Obesity Society Annual Scientific Meeting, Atlanta, GA.

Pelligrino, N., Velasco-Gonzalez, C., Bennet, B., Augustus, A., Sothern, M. Estrada, J., Zabaleta, J., Powell-Young, Y., Larson-Meyer, E., Boulares, H. (2013, November) Race and Gender Disparities in Body Composition Methodologies in Relation to Inflammatory Biomarkers in Pre-Pubertal Youth. The Obesity Society Annual Scientific Meeting, Atlanta, GA.

Powell-Young, Y., Sothern, M.S., Zabaleta, J., Ravussin, E., Larson-Meyer, E., Velasco-Gonzalez, C., Pelligrino, N., Augustus, A., Bennett, B., Boulares, H., Estrada, J. (2012, September). Resistin is Associated with Pro-inflammatory Adipokines in Healthy, Pre-pubertal Youth. The Obesity Society Annual Scientific Meeting, San Antonio, TX.

Zabaleta, J., Estrada, J., Ravussin, E., Larson-Meyer, E., Velasco-Gonzalez, C., Pelligrino, N., Augustus, A., Bennett, B., Powell-Young, Y., Boulares, H., Sothern, M.S. (2012, September). Role of Ghrelin in Inflammation in Healthy Pre-pubertal Children. The Obesity Society Annual Scientific Meeting, San Antonio, TX.

Powell-Young, Y.M. & Clark, M.K. (2011, October). Molecular characterization of body fat patterning and association analysis of the FTO gene. International Society of Nurses in Genetics Annual Conference, Montreal, QC, CA.

Powell-Young, Y.M., Sothern, M.S., Velasco-Gonzalez, C., Kamboj, S., Zabaleta, J., & Estrada, J. (2011, October). Risk of overweight and low socioeconomic status on global self-esteem competence among female African American adolescents. Obesity Society Annual Scientific Meeting, Orlando, FL.

Powell-Young, Y.M. & Clark, M.K. (2009). The recovery of genomic DNA from archival sera: Suitability for amplification and genotyping assays in studying obesity susceptibility genes. International Society of Nurses in Genetics Annual Conference, San Diego, CA.

Clark, M.K. & Powell-Young, Y.M. (2008, October). BMI misclassification. Obesity Society Annual Scientific Meeting, Phoenix, AZ.

Powell-Young, Y.M. & Clark, M.K. (2008, October). Self-report height and weight accuracy and overweight misclassification among African American adolescents. Obesity Society Annual Scientific Meeting, Phoenix, AZ.

Powell-Young, YM, Sothern, MS, Velasco-Gonzalez, C, Zabaleta, J. (2013, November). Pilot Assessment of Polymorphic Variation by Ancestry in Obesity Risk Genes: Implications for Pediatric Research and Personalized Intervention. Caribbean Exploratory Research Center's 6th Annual Health Disparities Institute, St. Thomas, Virginia Islands, USA

Johnson, V.A., Powell-Young, Y.M., Torres, E.R. & Spruill, I.J (2013, June). Systematic Review of Strategies that Increase Recruitment and Retention of African American Adults in Genetic and Genomic Studies, Association of Black Nursing Faculty Annual Conference, Los Angeles, CA

Powell-Young, Y.M., Zabaleta, J., Velasco-Gonzalez, C. & Sothern, M.S. (2013, February). Pediatric obesity risk and genetic variation in the β2-adrenergic receptor (ADRB2) gene, Southern Nurses Research Society Annual Conference, Little Rock, AK