Nutrient Regulation, Obesity and Diabetes
Orfeu M Buxton
Causes and consequences of sleep deficiency.
Associate Professor of Biobehavioral Health
Margherita Cantorna
Vitamin A and vitamin D regulation of the microbiota and host immunity. Utilizing animal models of multiple sclerosis, inflammatory bowel disease and gastrointestinal infection.
Distinguished Professor in Molecular Immunology
Chair, Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Immunology and Infectious Diseases
Michael Green
Vitamin A metabolism; vitamin A delivery to milk. Lipoprotein
metabolism; lipid absorption. Tracer kinetics/mathematical modeling.
Professor of Nutrition Science and Physiology
Kevin Harvatine
Investigation of dietary factors that modify ruminal fatty acid biohydrogenation, regulation of synthesis of milk components, and basic regulation of lipid synthesis with the continual goal of developing feeding strategies to improve the efficiency and performance of dairy cows
Associate Professor of Nutritional Physiology
Leonard Jefferson
Evan Pugh Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology
Laura Klein
Professor of Biobehavioral Health
Matam Vijay Kumar
Innate Immunity-Gut Microbiotal Interactions in Metabolic Diseases such as diabetes and obesity; Host Metabolic Adaptations to Inflammation; Lipocalin 2 - mediated Iron Homeostasis in Inflammation.
Assistant Professor, Nutritional Science
Joshua Lambert
Dietary polyphenols in prevention of obesity and fatty liver disease; efficacy and mechanisms of action of food-derived phytochemicals in prevention of lung cancer; biotransformation, bioavailability and potential hepatotoxicity of dietary phytochemicals
Assistant Professor, Food Science
Andrew Patterson
The Patterson lab is focused on understanding the host-metabolite-microbiome axis
Director/Faculty Oversight, Metabolomics Core Facility (University Park)
Associate Professor of Molecular Toxicology
A. Catharine Ross
Vitamin A metabolism; hepatic retinoid function and gene expression; vitamin A in infection and immunity.
Professor in Nutritional Science and Occupant of Dorothy Foehr Huck Chair
Greg Shearer
We seek to understand disease-related functional changes in the context of global changes in lipid mediators (bioactive metabolites of dietary fatty acids) and use them to identify markers of disease and better ways to prevent or manage disease
Assoc. Professor, Nutritional Sciences
Regina Vasilatos-Younken
Role of endocrine and metabolic factors in the regulation of muscle and adipose tissue growth.
Dean of the Graduate School
Professor of Poultry Science, Endocrine Physiology, and Nutrition