Alumni

Alumni

Megan Bragg

Megan Bragg

  • GGNB Alumni
Major Professor: Christine Stewart - Research Interests: international maternal and infant nutrition, especially micronutrient deficiencies and cognitive development in children.
Alex Brito

Alex Brito

  • GGNB Alumni
Class of 2015 - Major Professor: Lindsay H. Allen
Kendra Byrd

Kendra Byrd

  • GGNB Alumni
Class of 2017 - Major Professor: Christine Stewart
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Yimeng Cai

  • GGNB Alumni
Major Professor: Liping Huang - Research Interests: Zinc transporters and type 2 diabetes.
Prae Charoenwoodhipong

Prae Charoenwoodhipong

  • GGNB Alumni
Major Professor: Robert Hackman - Research Interests: The effects of diets rich in flavanoids on vascular function and health promotion.
Gwen Chodur

Gwen Chodur

  • GGNB Alumni
Major Professor: Francene Steinberg - Research Interests: investigates the effects of dietary fat intake on microRNA profiles and the relationship of these profiles to HDL activity and inflammatory signaling pathways.
Katherine Cox

Katherine Cox

  • GGNB Alumni
Major Professor: Elizabeth Prado - Research Interests: socio-economic, cultural, and environmental determinants of maternal and child nutrition and health; infant and young child feeding practices, including complementary feeding; and relationships between diet, child growth and development.
Dave Dallas

Dave Dallas

  • GGNB Alumni
Class of 2012 - Major Professor: J. Bruce German
Jennie Davis

Jennie Davis

  • GGNB Alumni
Major Professor: Reina Engle-Stone - Research Interests: Maternal-child nutrition in global settings focusing on flux points for nutrition policy and prevention.
Sarah Dimitratos

Sarah Dimitratos

  • GGNB Alumni
Major Professor: Kevin Laugero - Research Interests: Understanding the role of psychological stress on eating behavior and chronic disease risk in humans.
Daphna Dror

Daphna Dror

  • GGNB Alumni
Class of 2009 - Major Professor: Lindsay Allen
Vivien Fam

Vivien W Fam

  • GGNB Alumni
Major Professor: Robert Hackman - Research Interests: Effects of whole foods and whole food products consumption on human's health, with an emphasis on skin and cardiovascular health.
Caitlin French

Caitlin French

  • GGNB Alumni
Major Professor: Carolyn Slupsky - Research Interests: Global and community nutrition; effects of maternal and early child nutrition and metabolism on neurodevelopment; modeling population nutritional status and effects of interventions; food environments and systems; health justice.
Juliana Haber

Juliana Haber

  • GGNB Alumni
Class of 2016 - Major Professor: Lindsay H. Allen
Mary Henderson

Mary Henderson

  • GGNB Alumni
Class of 2012 - Major Professor: Carl Keen / Louise Lanoue
Brian Hong

Brian Hong

  • GGNB Alumni
Major Professor: Angela Zivkovic - Research Interests: Precision health, HDL functionality and its relevance to diseases.
Md. Iqbal Hossain

Md. Hossain

  • GGNB Alumni
Class of 2009 - Major Professor: Kenneth Brown
Nazmul Huda

Nazmul Huda

  • GGNB Alumni
Class of 2017 - Major professor: Charles B. Stephensen
Riley Hughes

Riley Hughes

  • GGNB Alumni
Class of 2020 - Major Professor: Nancy Keim
Kristen James

Kristen James

  • GGNB Alumni
Major Professor: Brian Bennett - Research Interestes: identifying gene by environment interactions in the context of health and disease and applying this knowledge to promote precision health and precision nutrition.
Jea Woo Kang

Jea Woo Kang

  • GGNB Alumni
Major Professor: Angela Zivkovic - Research Interests: Gut microbiota and HDL relationship.
Jiye Kang

Jiye Kang

  • GGNB Alumni
Major Professor: Patricia Oteiza - Research Interests: effects of (-)-epicatechin on brain and cognition.
Myungsuk Kim

Myungsuk Kim

  • GGNB Alumni
Major Professor: Brian Bennett - Research Interests: Identifying genetic, microbial, and dietary factors that regulate TMAO and atherosclerosis using Diversity Outbred mice.
Sarah Langdon

Sarah Langdon

  • GGNB Alumni
Class of 2017 - Major Professor: Francene Steinberg
Jules Larke

Jules Larke

  • GGNB Alumni
Major Professor: Carolyn Slupsky - Research Interests: understanding the role of nutrition in the context of infant development; by resolving the components of human milk and their interactions with the host and microbiota, better strategies for enhancing infant care may be devised.
Xiang Li

Xiang Li

  • GGNB Alumni
Major Professor: Robert Hackman - Research Interests: Effects of whole foods and phytonutrients on cardiovascular health and eye health.
Xiuzhen Liu

Xiuzhen Liu

  • GGNB Alumni
Major Professor: Patricia Oteiza - Research Interests: 1) how zinc deficiency could affect early fetal brain development and behavioral alterations 2) environmental toxicant affects zinc bioavailability to the fetus and consequences of lower zinc status on early neurogenesis.
Britt Loofbourrow

Britt Loofbourrow

  • GGNB Alumni
Major Professor: Rachel Scherr - Research Interests: Food security concerns of college students, particularly those within the University of California system.
Tagreed Mazi

Tagreed Mazi

  • GGNB Alumni
Major Professor: Valentina Medici - Research Interests: Obesity, Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, and the cross talk between bone and energy metabolism.
Shasta McMillen

Shasta McMillen

  • GGNB Alumni
Major Professor: Bo Lönnerdal - Research Interests: iron supplementation; infant nutrition; microbiota-gut-brain axis; milk; lactation
Zhenzhen Mo

Zhenzhen Mo

  • GGNB Alumni
Class of 2017 - Major Professor: Daniel Hwang
Lauren Ober

Lauren Ober

  • GGNB Alumni
Major Professor: Andrea Fascetti - Research Interests: Cat and dog nutrition and metabolism; nutrient requirements for cats and dogs; the role of nutrition in adult cat and dog care and maintenance; alternate protein sources for sustainability; the improvement of commercial pet foods.
Leslie Olivares

Leslie Olivares

  • GGNB Alumni
Major Professor: Reina Engle-Stone - Research Interests: Chronic diseases among low income communities.
Mariana Parenti

Mariana Parenti

  • GGNB Alumni
Major Professor: Carolyn Slupsky - Research Interests: Effects of maternal diet, evironmental exposures, and metabolism in the perinatal period on long-term infant outcomes.
Joy Pieper

Joy Pieper

  • GGNB Alumni
Class of 2012 - Major Professor: Lindsay Allen
Zachary Pierce

Zachary Pierce

  • GGNB Alumni
Class of 2016 - Major Professor: Charles Stephensen
Marcela Radtke

Marcela Radtke

  • GGNB Alumni
Major Professor: Francene Steinberg & Rachel Scherr - Research Interests: Clinical nutrition and public health; research explores the physiological and cognitive impacts of food insecurity.
Jingyan Ren

Jingyan Ren

  • GGNB Alumni
Class of 2015 - Major Professor: Carl Keen
Emily Roberts

Emily Roberts

  • GGNB Alumni
Class of 2019 - Major Professor: Jennifer Falbe
Kirsten Roslund

Kirsten Roslund

  • GGNB Alumni
Major Professor: Carolyn Slupsky - Research Interests: The effects of a ketogenic diet on hippocampal metabolism and age-related memory loss.
Lyndsey Ruiz

Lyndsey Ruiz

  • GGNB Alumni
Major Professor: Rachel Scherr - Research Interests: Food-based nutrition education and how cross-age teaching can impact adolescent and youth health outcomes.
Anna Sadovnikova

Anna Sadovnikova

  • GGNB Alumni
Major Professor: Russell Hovey - Research Interests: Glucocorticoid regulation of milk production.
John Solitro

John Solitro

  • GGNB Alumni
Class of 2019 - Major Professor: Gerardo Mackenzie
Jennifer Stern

Jennifer Stern

  • GGNB Alumni
Class of 2011 - Major Professors: Jon Ramsey / Chris Calvert
Debra Tacad

Debra Tacad

  • GGNB Alumni
Major Professor: Nancy Keim - Research Interests: The effects of diet and exercise in appetite regulation, eating behavior, and energy metabolism.
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Ashley Tovar

  • GGNB Alumni
Class of 2020 - Major Professor: Nancy Keim
Bineti Vitta

Bineti Vitta

  • GGNB Alumni
Class of 2012 - Major Professor: Kathryn Dewey
Ziwei Wang

Ziwei Wang

  • GGNB Alumni
Major Professor: Patricia I. Oteiza - Research Interests: The effects of of (-)-epicatechin on mitigating high-fat diet-induced intestinal permeability and endotoxemia
Rochelle Werner

Rochelle Werner

  • GGNB Alumni
Major Professor: Christine Stewart - Research Interests: Dietary assessment of maternal, infant, and child nutrition in low and middle-income countries.
Anne Williams

Anne Williams

  • GGNB Alumni
Class of 2015 - Major Professor: Caroline Chantry
Demewoz Haile Woldegebreal

Demewoz Haile Woldegebreal

  • GGNB Alumni
Major Professor: Reina Engle-Stone - Research Interests: Modeling Maternal and Child Nutrition interventions in low and middle-income countries.
Zeyu Zhou

Zeyu Zhou

  • GGNB Alumni
Major Professor: Jon Ramsey - Research Interests: Dietary interventions that promote healthy aging.
Chenghao Zhu

Chenghao Zhu

  • GGNB Alumni
Class of 2019 - Major Professor: Angela Zivkovic
Michelle Zuelch

Michelle Zuelch

  • GGNB Alumni
Major Professor: Carl Keen and Roberta Holt - Research Interests: Cardiovascular disease; Atherosclerosis; Phytonutrients; Metabolomics.
Sarah Zyba

Sarah Zyba

  • GGNB Alumni
Class of 2018 - Major Professor: Janet King