This area focuses on the metabolism of nutrients and bioactive food materials to elucidate mechanisms of action using genomics, sequencing, biomarker, and big data tools and analyses for health promotion, disease prevention, and survivorship.
Assistant Professor
Nutrition and cardiovascular disease: Investigates the mechanisms of how carotenoids, lipids, and their metabolites interact to mediate atherosclerosis; studies structure and function of vitamin A to mitigate metabolic disease progression, primarily cardiovascular disease.
Associate Professor
Nutrigenomics and epigenetics: nutrient regulation of epigenetic modifications during human development and carcinogenesis.
Professor
Bioactive peptides and proteins in foods with health benefits focusing on reduction of inflammation, markers of type-2 diabetes, cancer and cardiovascular risk; functional properties of food components especially flavonoids in ethnic teas, herbs and berries.
Professor
Pediatric Nutrition: human milk and neonatal intestinal development. Development of the microbiome and host-microbe interactions. Childhood obesity prevention. Determinants of picky eating and strategies to develop healthy eating habits.
Professor Emeritus
Bioactive Food Components and Carotenoids: dietary and non-dietary factors affecting absorption, utilization, and bioavailability of carotenoids; carotenoids and prostate cancer; soy and health; lutein and brain function.
Professor
Nutritional toxicology: food safety and toxicology; effect of natural chemicals present in foods on chronic diseases such as breast cancer.
Associate Professor
Nutrition and the microbiome: dietary manipulation of the microbiome for disease prevention and treatment; clinical nutrition; host-microbe interactions; big data and bioinformatics.
Professor Emerita
Nutritional toxicology and functional foods: anticarcinogenic and anti-inflammatory effects of non-nutritive dietary components, including isothiocyanates and indoles from broccoli.
Associate Professor
Nutrition, genomics, transcriptomics, cistromics, epigenetics, metabolomics, biomarker discovery, biosensors, molecular and physiological effects of phytochemicals present in food and natural and synthetic estrogens to resiliency to chronic diseases like metabolic syndrome and breast cancer, post-menopausal women’s health.
Associate Professor
Biochemical and Molecular Nutrition: function and metabolism of essential fatty acids in reproduction, inflammation and chronic diseases; transcriptional regulation of macronutrient metabolism; dietary weight loss and prevention of obesity.
Associate Professor
Nutrigenomics and epigenetics: nutrient-gene interaction and chronic diseases.