Current Graduate Students

Carmen's research aims to identify individual differences that may cause differences in treatment effectiveness and disease progression, specifically regarding the use of circulating fatty acids and genetics to identify individuals who can benefit from fatty acid supplements.

Amrita's research interests include gestational diabetes mellitus; placental morphology and histology; micronutrient deficiency; nutrition and pregnancy.
 

Yashaswini's research interests include predictive modeling and machine learning applications for childhood obesity and eating behaviors.

Suyeun's research focuses on understanding the neural mechanisms by which metabolic peptides regulate feeding behavior and emotionality.

Paige's research interests include mechanisms that drive eating behavior, with a focus on energy density, portion size, and sensory specific satiety.

Zachary's research interests include ketogenic diets and hypercholesterolemia in healthy individuals and metabolomic and microbiome analysis and factors that lead to individual variation in response to dietary interventions.

Ashley's research focuses on investigating predictive factors for variability in diet quality and nutritional status in relation to neurodegenerative diseases and cognitive decline among older adults.

Bari's research interests include examining cognitive-affective correlates of pediatric food intake, including functional activation and connectivity during exposure to food cues and reward-related decision-making.
 

Kyle's neural and cognitive mechanisms underlying eating behavior and appetite regulation in children. 

Tricia's research interests include chronic disease and diet. 

Daisuke is passionate about studying the psychosocial and environmental determinants of human health and eating behaviors, and the development of individualized and community-based approaches to promote healthy eating practices across the lifespan.

Tran's research interests include food and nutrition insecurity, promotion of healthy nutrition, and disease prevention in the community.

Fatemeh's research interests include the role of micro- and macro-nutrients, individual foods, and dietary patterns in the prevention and management of established/emerging risk factors for diet-related chronic disorders such as cardiovascular diseases and obesity.

Mya's research interests include the social and emotional behaviors in rodent models in relations to food intake and eating behaviors, the relationship between neural components (the reward pathway), and eating behaviors. 

Tina's research interests involve processed fermentable dietary fiber effects in the intestines and liver in colitis and colorectal cancer populations

John's research explores the drivers of food intake and longitudinal weight gain. 

Yining’s research interests include childhood obesity prevention interventions, parent feeding practices, and health disparities in early childhood, particularly among children living in low-income contexts.

Leigh's research interests include global maternal and child nutrition, micronutrient deficiencies in vulnerable populations, adverse pregnancy outcomes, maternal nutritional status, plasma volume expansion, and nutritional biomarkers during pregnancy.

Nick's research interests include the eating behaviors and cognitive processes that affect childhood obesity risk.

Raphia's research interests include maternal nutrition, women empowerment, international health and nutrition, and gender equity. 

Lois' research interests include examining the interaction between lipids and iron in ferroptosis and how that is implicated in different disease processes, cardiovascular disease prevention, and mathematical modeling of biological systems.

Sara's research interests include food marketing and adolescent eating behavior. 

Rhea's research interests include ingestive Behavior, appetite regulation, satiety response, eating in absence of hunger (EAH), and fMRI.

Teresa's research investigates the role of sociocultural and behavioral factors and their influence on maternal and child health and nutrition globally.

Gwen's research interests include maternal and child health, micronutrients, mineral and transition metal metabolism, biomarkers, and deep learning.

Evaniya's research investigates the maternal and child health and complementary feeding practices in low- and middle-income countries. 

Nicole's research interests include understanding determinants of healthy eating behavior in preschool-aged children in low-income families and parent feeding practices and factors for more responsive and less control-based feeding practices to manage children's behavior.

Kayla's research interests include studying the relationship between dietary patterns and cardiometabolic diseases, and how this knowledge can be translated into public health policy.

Sangshan's research interests include understanding the interaction between dietary fibers and the host intestinal immune system in health and disease. 

Daphne's research interests include nutritional behavior in indigenous communities.