Nutrition and Dietetics
Master of Nutrition and Dietetics
Food, Nutrition & Health
Graduate Degree Programs
Research Supervisors
| Name | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Black, Jennifer | Human nutrition and dietetics; Community Health / Public Health; food banks; food environments; Nutrition; Public health; school food environments; social determinants of health |
| Cohen, Tamara | understanding the interplay between different lifestyle behaviours; how eating behaviours relate to weight management; Obesity |
| Dee, Derek | Enzymes (including kinetics and mechanisms, and biocatalyst); Proteomics; Nanofabrication, growth and self-assembly; Food chemistry (including fermentation); Protein Folding; protein stability; protein aggregation; protein engineering; funtional amyloid; bacterial amyloid; protein nanofibrils; food proteins; legume proteins; aspartic proteases; psychrophilic enzymes; precision fermentation; Biophysics; food chemistry; alternative food proteins; optical tweezers; single molecule force spectroscopy; cryoEM; Proteomics |
| Jessri, Mahsa | Public health nutrition policy; Human nutrition and dietetics, n.e.c.; Nutritional Epidemiology; Population and Public Health; Dietary Assessment and Surveillance; Food and Nutrition Policies; Lifestyle Determinants and Burden of Disease; Artificial Intelligence; Web-based Calculators; Child and Youth Health; Dietary Pattern Modeling; predictive analytics; Diet Quality and Dietary Guidelines; Ultra- and Highly-Processed Foods; Food and Beverage Marketing to Children; Front of Package Food Labelling; Microsimulation; Health Administrative Databases; Dietary and Health Data Linkages; Health Equity; Chronic Disease Prevention |
| Karakochuk, Crystal Dawn | Human nutrition and dietetics; Nutrition; Global Health and Emerging Diseases; Hematology; Biochemical markers of iron status; Clinical dietetics; Determinants and causes of anemia; Inherited blood disorders (sickle cell, thalassemia, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency); International nutrition; Maternal and child nutrition; Micronutrients (namely iron, folic acid, and zinc); Risk-benefit of micronutrient supplementation |
| Kitts, David | Food chemistry and toxicology, cellular and molecular mechanism, oncology |
| Kontogiorgos, Vasileios | Food colloids, gels, foam and emulsions; Food chemistry (including fermentation); Food rheology, food texture and sensory evaluation; Nutraceuticals, functional foods and bioactive; food chemistry; Physical chemistry of foods; Food colloids; Food emulsions; Food polysaccharides; food proteins |
| Lamers, Yvonne | Human nutrition and dietetics; Nutrition; Nutrients; Biological and Biochemical Mechanisms; Breast Feeding and Infant Nutrition; Clinical Chemistry; Maternal and child health; Micronutrients; Newborn Screening; Nutritional Biochemistry; Nutritional Biomarker; Periconceptional folic acid supplementation; Pregnancy; Prenatal Supplements; Toddler Nutrition; Vitamins |
| McKendry, James | Musculoskeletal biology and physiology; Health promotion and disease prevention; Aging process; Human nutrition and metabolism; Nutritional physiology; Clinical nutrition; Exercise physiology; Sports nutrition; Kinesiology; Skeletal Muscle; Protein metabolism; Aging; Nutrition ; exercise; Sarcopenia; Protein ; Muscle Disuse; Stable Isotope Tracers; Omics ; Cell Culture; Microscopy |
| Measday, Vivien | Chromosome segregation in the budding yeast using molecular biology and genomic tools |
| Pratap-Singh, Anubhav | Environment and natural resources economics; Food chemistry (including fermentation); Natural resource management; Agri-food Transformation Products; cold plasma; food engineering; food processing; Functional Foods; heat transfer; high pressure; mass transfer; novel non-thermal processing; Nutriceuticals and Functional Foods; pasteurization; pulsed light; sterilization |
| Stefanska, Barbara | Epigenetics, Cancer epigenetics, Nutritional epigenomics |
| Wang Kazun, Siyun | Food sciences (including food engineering); Agri-food Transformation Products; Microbiology; Bioactive Molecules; Food microbiology; Food safety |
| Xu, Zhaoming | Nutrients, Zinc, growth, and growth regulation, Regulatory role of zinc in apoptosis, Zinc and breast cancer |
| Yang, Tianxi | Food sciences (including food engineering); Analytical chemistry; Nano-technology; Chemical engineering; Develop novel Point-of-Care tools for food safety monitoring; Design smart nanomaterials for sustainable farming and precision agriculture; Create sustainable and multifunctional packaging materials to improve food safety and quality |
| Zulyniak, Michael | Human nutrition and metabolism; Population health interventions; Systems biology; Nutritional epidemiology; Metabolomics; Dietetics and nutrigenomics; Genomics; metabolic diseases; Pregnancy; gestational diabetes; type-2 diabetes; Metabolism; Genetics; health disparity; Nutrition; lifestyle; precision nutrition |