Major Professor: Peng Ji - Research Interests: How dual micronutrient deficiency (vitamin A and iron) impacts the developing brain, intestine, and gut microbiome in a translational mice model.
Major Professor: Carolyn Slupsky - Research Interests: Utilizing multi omics to determine mechanisms through which dietary fiber and bioactives interact with the host and microbiome to promote health.
Major Professor: Brian Bennett - Research Interests: Nutrigenomics, gut microbiome, and precision nutrition. Employing a systems genetics/multi-omics integrative approach to assess chronic metabolic disease development.
Major Professor: Francene Steinberg - Research Interests: mechanisms through which dietary (poly)phenols modulate gut microbial composition/functionality and what effect this modulation might have on cardiometabolic disease risk of the host.
Major Professor: Lauren Au - Research Interests: Use of novel technology for dietary assessment and addressing food insecurity among low-income populations.
Major Professor: Jennifer Falbe - Research Interests: Reducing disparities in cardiometabolic diseases in underserved communities, particularly through the development of interventions and policies that increase health awareness and nutrition literacy.
Major Professor: John Newman - Research Interests: Precision nutrition and nutrimetabolomics. Working on mass spectrometry-based lipidomics and small-molecule quantitative analytical chemistry for dietary biomarker discovery.
Major Professor: Carolyn Slupsky - Research Interests: Exploring the impact of dietary patterns on the development of young children through metabolic and gut microbiome modulation.
Major Professor: Elizabeth Prado - Research Interests: Maternal and child health in low-income populations; early nutrition and cognitive development; global nutrition program development and evaluation.
Major Professor: Fawaz Haj - Research Interests: The effects of protein tyrosine phosphatase activity and inhibition on the development and progression of diabetic nephropathy.
MS Plan II - Research Interests: Effect of education and intervention on improving nutritional outcomes, public health nutrition, food systems, and improving food access and security.
Major Professor: Gerardo Mackenzie & Patricia Oteiza - Research Interests: Effects of dietary fat quantity and composition on the intestinal barrier in the context of pancreatic cancer development and progression.
Major Professor: Brian Bennett -Research Interests: Gaining a deeper understanding of the intricate relationships between diet, gut microbiota, and overall human well-being. Investigating the impact of varied diets on genetically diverse mouse populations, exploring correlations between diet-induced changes in microbiome composition and the consequential effects on liver health.
Major Professor: Reina Engle-Stone - Research Interests: Research Interests: Public health nutrition, social determinants of health, micronutrient nutrition and fortification, nutrition policy for the promotion of health equity.
Major Professor: Patricia Oteiza - Research Interests: Effects of cyanidin intervention on anxiety and depressive like behavior and cognitive dysfunction.
Major Professor: Elizabeth Prado - Research Interests: Maternal-child nutrition and health; gut-brain axis; early life nutrition on child brain development.
Major Professor: Debbie Fetter - Research Interests: Food insecurity in college student populations and how the long-term effects of nutrition deficits correlate to human health and chronic diseases.
Major Professor: Angela Zivkovic - Research Interests: The effects of diets and exercise on lipid structures and functions, and aiming to find personalized approaches for optimizing health through tailored dietary and exercise interventions.
Major Professor: Debbie Fetter - Research Interests: Nutritional psychology; food insecurity and the development and evaluation of effective nutritional messaging strategies in the college student population.
Major Professor: Reina Engle-Stone and Christine McDonald - Research Interests: Nutritional epidemiology, maternal, infant and child nutrition, micronutrient fortification, mathematical modeling and data science for nutrition.
Major Professor: Mary Kable - Research Interests: Effects of diet and chronic stress on host microbiome composition and immune function, particularly in relation to systemic inflammation, gut health, and host resilience against pathogens.
Major Professor: Francene Steinberg - Research Interests: Using metabolomics to study the mechanistic effects of dietary nutrients on physiological responses.
Major Professor: Danielle Lemay - Research Interests: Bioinformatics in nutrition, human gut microbiome community in relation with dietary intake and dietary and physical status.
Major Professor: Guodong Zhang - Research Interests: My research focuses on the effects and mechanisms of bioactive lipids, as well as food and environmental contaminants, on gut microbiota and gut health.
Major Professor: Francene Steinberg - Research Interests: Implementation and effectiveness of nutrition interventions for clinical populations; equity in nutrition and dietetics education.
Major Professor: Roberta Holt - Research Interests: Understanding the impact of dietary components and whole foods on cardiovascular outcomes and physiology. Specific interest in zinc absorption and phytic acid.
