Food Science and Human Nutrition Research Faculty

Department Head and Professor

Areas:

• Translational studies in cell models, small animals and humans to study the cardiometabolic consequences of obesity
• Role of the gut microbiota in the development of cardiometabolic dysfunction

Associate Professor

Areas:

• Critically examine the clinical efficacy of nutrition and food-related interventions
• Evaluate underlying mechanisms by which nutrition and food-related interventions induce clinical responses

Assistant Professor

Areas:

• Childhood obesity prevention
• Nutrition policy
• Food industry/organizational behavior
• Parent-child interactions
• Community-based interventions

Assistant Professor

Areas:

• Qualitative and mixed methods research
• Diabetes and cardiometabolic disease risk reduction, education, and prevention
• Design, implementation, and evaluation of multilevel interventions addressing food/nutrition related social determinants of health
• Clinical and community-based nutrition education programs
• Equitable partnerships and community-based participatory research with American Indian and Alaska Native communities

Professor and Program Coordinator, Hospitality Management

Areas:

• Cross cultural tourism behaviors and management
• DMO (Destination Marketing Organization) management and marketing
• QOL (Quality of Life) issues in the hospitality and tourism arenas

Associate Professor

Areas:

• Dietary influence on growth and risk of overweight in infants and young children
• The interplay of gut microbiota, inflammation and weight gain in both adult and pediatric populations
• Micronutrient exposure early in life on gut microbiota development
• Identification of bioactive compounds in foods that impact health outcomes in adults

Assistant Professor

Areas:

• Biological functionality of plant-based foods in treating chronic inflammatory diseases
• Understanding how protein-polyphenol interactions can disrupt the pathogenesis of celiac disease and other protein-stimulated inflammatory diseases

Professor

Areas:

• Integration of gut microbial, molecular, and metabolic datasets to understand how interactions between diet and the gut microbiome contribute to chronic diseases
• Diet interventions to modulate the microbiota for decreased risk of colorectal cancer in high-risk populations