Scientists

Andres Ardisson Korat

Thomas Biederer

Senior Scientist

The biology of synapses, the cellular structures that connect neurons into networks, and how they are supported by bioactive dietary compounds

Sarah L. Booth

Vitamin K status and chronic disease, bioavailability, food composition

Lisa Ceglia

Effects of dietary and hormonal factors on muscle metabolism and morphology

Sai Krupa Das

Senior Scientist

Energy metabolism; calorie restriction and nutritional modulation of aging, obesity and body weight regulation in humans; body composition, dietary intake capture methodology.

Bess Dawson-Hughes

Senior Scientist

Dietary and hormonal determinants of bone and muscle mass and function

Naglaa El-Abbadi

Sustainable diets and food systems

Roger A. Fielding

Senior Scientist

Impact of exercise and physical activity on successful human aging; skeletal muscle alterations with advancing age in disabled and non-disabled populations; and age-related alterations in the control of skeletal muscle protein turnover

Xueyan Fu

Research Scientist I

Vitamin K bioavailability and role of vitamin K in inflammation and insulin resistance

Andrew S. Greenberg

Senior Scientist

Etiology of obesity and its complications; the role of inflammation in metabolic disorders and the regulation of adipocyte metabolism, inulin resistance, and diabetes

Paul F. Jacques

Senior Scientist

Diet patterns and diet quality, protein, hydration, and B vitamins and their relation to healthy aging assessed through maintenance of physical function, and cardiometabolic health and cognitive health

Bruce Kristal

Senior Scientist

Developing workflows and informatics tools to advance personalized analysis of future health

Chao-Qiang Lai

Research Molecular Biologist/Geneticist

Nutrition, genetics, and healthy aging; epigenomics, gene by diet interaction, risk prediction and prevention of cardiovascular and metabolic disease

Stefania Lamon-Fava

Nutritional and hormonal regulation of the expression of genes involved in lipoprotein metabolism. Omega-3 fatty acids, inflammation and cardiometabolic risk.

Jennifer Lee

Aging and Gut Health/Function

Alice H. Lichtenstein

Senior Scientist

Dietary fatty acids, nutrition, lipoproteins, and cardiovascular disease risk, biomarkers of nutrient intake and disease risk, nutrition policy

Michael Lustgarten

The role of the gut microbiome and serum metabolome on muscle mass and function in older adults

Joel B. Mason

Senior Scientist

Carbon nutrients (modulation of carcinogenesis); Obesity (modulation of carcinogenesis, colonic microbiome and carcinogenesis)

Nirupa Matthan

Nutrition and cardiovascular disease, dietary fatty acids, cholesterol and bile acid metabolism, fatty acid and lipoprotein kinetics, sphingolipids, plant sterols, glycemic index

Eric Miller

Senior Scientist

Machine Learning and Data Analytics

José M. Ordovás

Senior Scientist

Molecular biology, nutrition, and genetics; lipoproteins and cardiovascular disease risk

Laurence D. Parnell

Computational Biologist

To understand how the human genome and its numerous genetic polymorphisms interpret the lifestyle of the individual – diet and physical activity among others – in ways that affect risk of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, hypertension and obesity. This is done with computational tools and databases, with a goal of describing factors pertinent to personalized nutrition.

Daniel Promislow

Senior Scientist

Systems biology of aging in genetically variable populations

Sheldon Rowan

The role of the dietary glycemia in the development of age-related macular degeneration and its role in aging, metabolism and microbiome. Discovery of networks that involve diet, multiple metabolites and the microbiome. Role of the ubiquitin proteolysis pathway in regulating lens development and differentiation. Elucidation of molecular mechanisms that direct lens fiber cell denucleation

Kyla Shea

Understanding the role of vitamin K in age-related disease

Barbara Shukitt-Hale

Research Psychologist, USDA

Age-related behavioral (cognition and motor performance) and neurochemical changes and nutritional treatments

Xiang-Dong Wang

Senior Scientist

Carotenoids, retinoids and cancer prevention

Elizabeth Whitcomb

Defining the function of specific ubiquitinating enzymes in regulation of cell division and differentiation in lens and retina cells/tissues; determining roles for the ubiquitin pathway in recognition and removal of damaged proteins

Christopher Wiley

Tong Zheng

Research Scientist I

Characterization of neural stem cells that may be appropriate as therapeutic sources as well as in vivo and in vitro bioassays to test the role of nutritional supplements in maintaining brain health and preventing age-related neurological diseases.