Kendra Byrd
Major Professor: Christine Stewart - Research Interests: Etiology of anemia, maternal and child nutrition.
Students
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Gwen Chodur
Major Professor: Francene Steinberg - Research Interests: Nutrigenomic interactions between diet and disease pathophysiology
Caitlin French
Major Professor: Carolyn Slupsky - Research Interests: Interactions in host and microbial metabolism, maternal/ early child nutrition, cognitive development and nutrition behavior.
Juliana Haber
Major Professor: Lindsay H. Allen - Research Interests: Maternal and infant nutrition, breast milk quality assessment, dietary assessment, micronutrient metabolism, agro-nutritional public heath interventions, food systems
Nazmul Huda
Major professor: Charles B. Stephensen - Research Interests: Effect of vitamin A supplementation on infants’ immunity .
Riley Hughes
Major Professor: Nancy Keim - Research Interests: Personalized nutrition and the gut microbiome.
Sarah Langdon
Major Professor: Francene Steinberg - Research Interests: The impact of nutrition on chronic diseases.
Alice Martinic
Major Professor: Carolyn Slupsky - Research Interests: I am interested in personalized health, particularly the interaction of the gut microbiota and diet. I am especially interested in cholesterol and bile acids.
Andrew Matchado
Major Professor: Christine Stewart - Research Interests: Nutrition and non-communicable disease in low income setting.
Tagreed Mazi
Major Professor: Valentina Medici - Research Interests: Obesity, Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, and the cross talk between bone and energy metabolism.
Shannon McClorry
Major Professor: Carolyn Slupsky - Research Interests: The effects of iron status in infant development.
Zhenzhen Mo
Major Professor: Daniel Hwang - Research Interests: Elucidate how fatty acid increases inflammation and whether a diet rich in antioxidant and omega fatty acid alleviates inflammation.
Zachary Pierce
Major Professor: Charles Stephensen - Research Interests: I'm interested in the relationships between vitamin supplementation and immune responses. More specifically, I'm interested in how vitamin A, and other retinoids, exert an influence on the developing immune system and intestinal microbiota of infants, especially in the context of vaccine responses.
Tara Rogers, M.S., R.D.
Major Professor: Marta Van Loan - Research Interests: inter-relationships among nutrition, hormones, inflammation and bone; the effects of nutritional interventions on bone metabolism in order to prevent and treat osteoporosis and other disorders.
Lyndsey Ruiz
Major Professor: Rachel Scherr - Research Interests: Nutrition education, adolescent nutrition, nutrition knowledge, peer relationships, cross-age teaching, youth development.
Desiree Sigala
Major Professor: Peter Havel - Research Interests: The affects of sugar consumption on lipid metabolism in young adults.
Ashley Tovar
Major Professor: Gretchen Casazza - Research Interests: Endocrine, metabolic, and performance alterations occurring in athletes experiencing low energy availability.
Ziwei Wang
Major Professor: Patricia I. Oteiza - Research Interests: The effects of of (-)-epicatechin on mitigating high-fat diet-induced intestinal permeability and endotoxemia