Graduate Students

Title Degree Areas of Interest Advisor
Fatimah Alsaeed Ph.D.
  • Cereal chemistry
  • Starch structure and functionality
  • Extrusion processing
  • Functional food development
 George Annor
Qianqian Chelsea Chen Ph.D.
  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Separation Science
  • Mass Spectrometry
  • Lipid & Flavor Chemistry
  • Food Product Development
 Fernanda Dias
Zhuo Chen M.S. Kathleen Hill Gallant
Mari Cole
  • Sports Nutrition and Performance
  • GI Health and Disorders
  • Women's Health
  • Eating disorder awareness and treatment
  • Evidence-based nutrition practice
  • Nutrition research and literature evaluation
 Corrie Marion
Medora Creek M.S.
  • Protein Chemistry 
  • Plant-Based Proteins
  • Food Chemistry
  • Sustainability 
  • Side Stream Valorization
  • Ingredient Development 
 B. Pam Ismail
Abiy Dadi Ph.D.
  • Characterization of Dairy Ingredients 
  • Predictive Model Development 
  • Food Extrusion Technology
  • Seed Cleaning/Oil seed Mechanical Extraction/ Edible Oil Extraction and Refining Technologies 
  • Fluidized bed Technologies
  • Supplementary Food Processing Technologies
 Kumar Mallikarjunan
Elie Fayad Ph.D.
  • Microbiology
  • Food Safety
  • Molecular Biology
  • Bioengineering
  • Synthetic Biology
  • Antimicrobial resistance
 Steven Bowden
Alyssa Hiel
  • Medical Nutrition Therapy
  • Diabetes Education
  • Nutrition for Healthy Aging
  • Sports Nutrition, fueling for performance
 Kathleen Hill Gallant
Alec Hovland
Irem Iskender Ph.D.
  • Bacteriophage biology and engineering
  • Cell-free gene expression systems (CFE/TXTL)
  • Phage biomanufacturing and rebooting
  • Phage–host interactions
  • Foodborne pathogen control
  • Transposon sequencing (Tn-seq)
  • Synthetic biology
 Steven Bowden
Xuenan Jin Ph.D.
  • Sexual Dimorphism in Metabolic Homestasis
  • Adipose Tissue Function and Lipid Metabolism
  • Cellular Senescence and Metabolic Diseases
 Xiaoli Chen
Theresa Krista Jolejole Ph.D.
  • BTEX compounds
  • Breast cancer
  • Maternal obesity
  • Gut microbiome
 Leena Hilakivi-Clarke
Myat Min Khant M.S.

Fermentation and microbial biotechnology

 Prasanth Pillai
Abigail Kisch M.S.
  • Mineral metabolism in Chronic Kidney Disease
  • Biochemistry
  • Clinical Nutrition
 Kathleen Hill Gallant
Brittany Kralik Ph.D.
  • Plant proteins
  • Protein chemistry
  • Sustainability
  • Extrusion -Consumer behavior
  • Alternative, innovative food products
 Pam Ismail
Islam Mabrouk Ph.D. Chi Chen
Qingqing Mao Ph.D.
  • Nutrition
  • Dietetics
  • Metabolomics
 Chi Chen
Sophia Mattaini
  • Eating disorders
  • Disease management 
  • Sports nutrition
  • Women's health
 Levi Teigen
Jawadul Misir Ph.D.
  • Food Safety
  • Food Processing
 Kumar Mallikarjunan
Hildah Namigga Ph.D.
  • Mineral Metabolism in Kidney Disease
  • Clinical Nutrition
  • Nutrition education
  • Dietary Phosphorus, Calcium, and Magnesium 
  • Controlled feeding studies
 Kathleen Hill Gallant
Emily Nelson M.S.
  • Alternative Proteins
  • Protein Chemistry
  • Food Chemistry
  • Sustainable Food Systems
 B. Pam Ismail
Kavan O Rourke M.S.
  • Food R&D & Applications
  • Sustainable Food Systems
  • Alternative Proteins
  • Protein Extraction & Processing
  • Dry Separation Technology
 B. Pam Ismail
Erin O Sullivan Ph.D.
  • Gut Microbiota
  • Fecal Microbiota Transplant
  • Fermented Foods
  • Community Building
  • Nutrition Policy
 Levi Teigen
Tsung Yueh Benjamin Peng Ph.D.
  • Food materials science
  • Food processing and technologies
  • Food powder characterization
 Job Ubbink
Sophie Schneblin M.S.
  • Cereal chemistry
  • Plant proteins
  • Sustainable food systems
  • Food product development
  • Food ingredient innovation
 George Annor
Olivia Solano M.S.
  • Oncology
  • Microbiome
  • Behavior change
  • Precision nutrition
  • Food and culture
  • Nutrition informatics
 Levi Teigen
Annie W. Lin
Phanatchakorn Sutham Ph.D.

Food Microbiology | Food Safety | Food Quality

  • Novel biosensor-based foodborne pathogen detection
  • Cold Plasma Technology and Plasma-activated water
  • Antimicrobial & Biodegradable Packaging from Dairy Protein byproducts
 Kumar Mallikarjunan
Vici Thahir M.S.
  • Flavor Chemistry
  • Lipid Chemistry
  • Dairy Foods
  • Analytical Chemistry
 Fernanda Dias
Clara Tietz Aimee Tritt
Hazrat Usman Ph.D.
  • Extrusion processing
  • Product development
  • Food safety
  • Food quality
  • Advanced food analysis
  • Sustainable food system innovation
  • Intermediate wheatgrass research
 George Annor
Xiaohan Wu Ph.D.
  • Food chemistry
  • Lipid oxidation
  • Flavor science
  • Dairy
 Fernanda Dias