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Advisor, Kathleen Keller
Metabolic Kitchen and Children's Eating Behavior Laboratory
Summary Statement

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

Department
  • Graduate Student
Advisor, Karolina Skibicka
Summary Statement

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

 

Department
  • Graduate Student
Summary Statement

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

Department
  • Graduate Student
Advisor, Kristina Petersen
Diet and Cardiometabolic Health Lab
Summary Statement

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.

Department
  • Graduate Student
Advisor, Kathleen Keller
Metabolic Kitchen and Children's Eating Behavior Laboratory
Summary Statement

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

Department
  • Graduate Student
Advisor, Kristina Petersen
Summary Statement

Tricia's research interests include chronic disease and diet. 

Department
  • Graduate Student
Advisor, Travis Masterson
Health, Ingestive Behavior, and Technology Lab (HIT)
Summary Statement

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.

Department
  • Graduate Student
Advisor, Meg Bruening
NuConnection
Summary Statement

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

Department
  • Graduate Student
Advisor, Kristina Petersen
Diet and Cardiometabolic Health Lab
Summary Statement

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.

Department
  • Graduate Student
Advisor, Karolina Skibicka
Skibicka Lab
Summary Statement

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. 

Department
  • Graduate Student
Advisor, Vishal Singh
Singh Lab
Summary Statement

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

Department
  • Graduate Student
Advisor, Travis Masterson
Health, Ingestive Behavior, and Technology Lab (HIT)
Summary Statement

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

Department
  • Graduate Student
Advisor, Jennifer Savage Williams
Center for Childhood Obesity Research (CCOR)
Summary Statement

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.

Department
  • Graduate Student
Advisor, Alison Gernand
Micronutrients and Pregnancy Lab (MAP)
Summary Statement

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.

Department
  • Graduate Student
Advisor, Stephen R. Kodish
Summary Statement

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

Department
  • Graduate Student
Advisor, Gregory Shearer
Summary Statement

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.

Department
  • Graduate Student
Advisor, Kathleen Keller
Metabolic Kitchen and Children's Eating Behavior Laboratory
Summary Statement

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

Department
  • Graduate Student
Advisor, Alison Gernand
Micronutrients and Pregnancy Lab (MAP)
Summary Statement

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

Department
  • Graduate Student
Advisor, Jennifer Savage Williams
Center for Childhood Obesity Research (CCOR)
Summary Statement

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.

Department
  • Graduate Student
Advisor, Kristina Petersen
Diet and Cardiometabolic Health Lab
Summary Statement

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.

Department
  • Graduate Student
Advisor, Vishal Singh
Summary Statement

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

Department
  • Graduate Student
Advisor, Stephen R. Kodish
Summary Statement

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

Department
  • Graduate Student