Graduate Students

• Public health nutrition
• Community nutrition
• Diet and activity related behaviors among diverse families and their children
• Latino father and adolescent nutrition and activity education
• Cooking demonstrations

• Applied Food Science & Product Development
• Food Chemistry
• Carbohydrate Chemistry, Technology and Processing
• Starch Chemistry and Technology
• Sustainable Food Systems
• Food Processing Operations
• Science communication for food science and nutrition
• Food Quality & Regulation

• Food Chemistry
• Product Development
• Food Processing
• Food Carbohydrates
• Modeling and Optimization using Response Surface Methodology
• Lipid Chemistry
• Data Science/Analysis
• Food Sustainability

• Cellular Agriculture
• Microbiomes
• Science Communication

• Microbiology
• Food Chemistry
• Quality in Food
• Research and Development

• Dietary fiber and the gut microbiome
• Human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) and gut microbiome modulation
• Maternal and pediatric nutrition

Mineral metabolism in Chronic Kidney Disease.

• Eating Disorders
• Exercise
• Intuitive Eating
• Gut Microbiome

• New Product Development
• Food Processing & Engineering
• Cold Plasma Technology

Weight stigma experienced during adolescence and young adulthood: associations with disordered eating and weight-related health risk behaviors.

• Plant-based protein
• Protein chemistry
• Ingredient chemistry
• Food applications

• Microbiome
• Prebiotics/Probiotics
• Maternal/Infant Nutrition
• Clinical Nutrition
• Nutrition Support

• Novel Food Proteins
• Food Trends and Innovation
• Food Application and Product Development
• Sustainability and Food Waste Reduction

• Dairy Science Food Chemistry
• Product development
• Continuous Improvement/ Lean six sigma

• Eating Disorders
• Chronic Kidney Disease
• Adolescent Nutrition

-Plant proteins

-Protein chemistry

-Sustainability

-Extrusion -Consumer behavior

-Alternative, innovative food products

• Obesity and aging
• Inflammation
• Extracellular vesicles
• miRNAs

• Nutrition
• Dietetics
• Metabolomics

• Alternative protein R and D
• Sensory and Product Development
• Extrusion/Processing
• Sustainability

Flavor Chemistry of Plant Protein.

Fuel utilization in brown fat.

Adipose tissue metabolism, Ketone metabolism, Iron metabolism

• Polyphenolics and cancer prevention
• Eating disorders
• Integrating nutrition in primary care

• Food Chemistry
• Starch Chemistry
• Plasma Science
• Food Quality and Safety
• Sensory Science
• Product Development and Sustainability

• Food Proteins
• Engineering/ Processing
• Dairy Chemistry
• Product Developement
• Studying the effect of pulsed electric field processing and cold plasma treatments on milk derived protein concentrates (MPC and MCC)

Mineral metabolism in Chronic Kidney Disease.

• Biochemistry
• Metabolomics 

• Plant protein modification & application
• Food research & development (innovation)
• Food waste management/utilization
• Nutrition and health