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Lydia Afman
Lydia Afman

Courtesy Professor

Department
Nutritional Sciences
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Elizabette Andrade

Senior Extension Associate
Associate Director of Downstate Partnerships and Programs

Department
Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University Cooperative Extension - NYC
Tolunay Beker Aydemir
Tolunay Beker Aydemir

Associate Professor

Department
Nutritional Sciences
Focus areas
Micronutrient-gene, Micronutrient-macronutrient, Micronutrient-disease
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Laura Barre

Assistant Clinical Professor

Department
Nutritional Sciences
Focus areas
Obesity, Disordered eating, Age related weight gain and weight cycling
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Joeva Barrow

Assistant Professor

Department
Nutritional Sciences
Focus areas
Mitochondrial disease, Metabolic disease, Obesity
Laura Bellows
Laura Bellows

Professor
Director, Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research

Department
Nutritional Sciences, Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research
Focus areas
maternal child nutrition, physical activity, community-engaged research
Andre Bensadoun

Professor Emeritus

Department
Nutritional Sciences
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Daniel Berry

Andre Bensadoun Associate Professor

Department
Nutritional Sciences
Focus areas
Adipose tissue biology, Systemic metabolism
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Department
Nutritional Sciences
Tom Brenna
Tom Brenna

Professor Emeritus

Department
Nutritional Sciences
Steve Broll

Postdoctoral Associate

Department
Nutritional Sciences
T. Colin Campbell

Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus

Department
Nutritional Sciences
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Richard Canfield

Senior Research Associate Emeritus

Department
Nutritional Sciences
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Patricia Ann Cassano

The Alan D. Mathios Professor Emerita in the College of Human Ecology

Department
Nutritional Sciences
Focus areas
Nutritional genomics of lung phenotypes, Nutrition translation and evidence synthesis, Nutrition for precision health
Marie Caudill

Professor Emerita

Department
Nutritional Sciences
Nathaniel Cole

Postdoctoral Associate

Department
Nutritional Sciences
Gerald F. Combs Jr.

Professor Emeritus

Department
Nutritional Sciences
Janine Macayle Cecile Comrie

Postdoctoral Associate

Department
Nutritional Sciences
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Paige Cunningham

Assistant Professor

Department
Nutritional Sciences
Focus areas
Eating behavior, Sensory science, Obesity, Satiation and energy intake
Mingjuan Deng

Postdoctoral Associate

Department
Nutritional Sciences
Carol Devine

Professor Emerita

Department
Nutritional Sciences
Jamie Dollahite

Professor Emerita

Department
Nutritional Sciences
David Erickson
David Erickson

Joint Professor

Department
Nutritional Sciences
Rong Fan

Postdoctoral Associate

Department
Nutritional Sciences
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Martha Field

Associate Professor

Department
Nutritional Sciences
Focus areas
Mitochondrial one-carbon metabolism, Erythritol as a biomarker
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Roger Figueroa

Assistant Professor in Social and Behavioral Science in Nutrition

Department
Nutritional Sciences
Focus areas
Community-based interventions to promote nutrition security, Local agriculture and food insecurity, Urban food environments
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Julia Finkelstein

Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition

Department
Nutritional Sciences
Focus areas
Epidemiology, One-carbon metabolism, Maternal and child nutrition
Alisha Gaines

Extension Associate

Department
Nutritional Sciences
Focus areas
Food and nutrition education in communities, Farmer's market nutrition programs
Cutberto Garza
Cutberto Garza

Professor Emeritus

Department
Nutritional Sciences
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Shibani Ghosh

Associate Professor

Department
Nutritional Sciences
Focus areas
Global nutrition (maternal and infant), Food systems, Nutritional and environmental determinants, Public health interventions and policy
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Emily Wilcox Gier

Associate Professor of Practice
Director, Dietetic Internship

Department
Nutritional Sciences
Focus areas
Dietetics education and accreditation, Medical nutrition therapy + management
Raymond Glahn

Courtesy Professor

Department
Nutritional Sciences
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Yarden Golan Maor

Assistant Professor

Department
Nutritional Sciences
Focus areas
Molecular regulation of human milk production, Human milk composition
Erin Green

Lecturer
Director, Didactic Program in Dietetics (DPD)

Department
Nutritional Sciences
Focus areas
Dietetics, Early adolescent food choice, Community nutrition
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Zhenglong Gu

Courtesy Professor

Department
Nutritional Sciences
Jere Haas

Professor Emeritus

Department
Nutritional Sciences
Jean-Pierre Habicht

Professor Emeritus

Department
Nutritional Sciences
Abiel Berhane Haile

Postdoctoral Associate

Department
Nutritional Sciences
Rongrong He

Postdoctoral Associate

Department
Nutritional Sciences
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John F. Hoddinott

H.E. Babcock Professor of Food and Nutrition Economics and Policy

Department
Nutritional Sciences
Focus areas
Food security, Early life nutrition, Poverty
Samantha Lee Huey
Samantha Lee Huey

Research Associate

Department
Nutritional Sciences
Focus areas
Maternal/child nutrition, Gut microbiome, Precision nutrition
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Elizabeth Johnson

Associate Professor

Department
Nutritional Sciences
Focus areas
Host-microbe interactions, Infant nutrition, Sphingolipids
Catherine Herminia Kagemann

Postdoctoral Fellow

Department
Nutritional Sciences
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Gunisha Kaur

Courtesy Associate Professor

Department
Nutritional Sciences
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Sander Kersten

Division Director
Schleifer Family Professor

Department
Nutritional Sciences
Focus areas
Lipid metabolism, Molecular response to fasting, Precision nutrition
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Tashara M. Leak

Associate Professor
Associate Dean for CHE in NYC

Department
Nutritional Sciences
Focus areas
Nutrition and health equity, Adolescents, Community-based interventions
Yujin Lee

Postdoctoral Associate

Department
Nutritional Sciences
Focus areas
microbiome-host interaction, personalized therapeutics, multiomics
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Xingen Lei

Joint Professor

Department
Nutritional Sciences
Focus areas
Sustainable animal agriculture, Food security, Environmental protection
David Levitsky

Professor Emeritus

Department
Nutritional Sciences
Marla Lujan
Marla Lujan

Professor

Department
Nutritional Sciences
Focus areas
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), Ovarian morphology and follicle development, Nutritional and metabolic regulation of ovulation
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Leigh Ann Martin

Postdoctoral Associate

Department
Nutritional Sciences
Paraskevi Massara

Postdoctoral Fellow

Department
Nutritional Sciences
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Mduduzi Mbuya

Courtesy Assistant Professor

Department
Nutritional Sciences
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Department
Nutritional Sciences
Focus areas
Biomedical sciences, Biochemistry, Breastfeeding and viral disease transmission
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Saurabh Mehta

Janet and Gordon Lankton Professor

Department
Nutritional Sciences
Focus areas
Precision nutrition, Global health, Point-of-care diagnostics
Christopher Anthony Mellor

Postdoctoral Associate

Department
Nutritional Sciences
Andrew R. Milewski

Lecturer Visiting

Department
Nutritional Sciences
Focus areas
Human rights, Medicine
Eva Monterrosa
Eva Monterrosa

Courtesy Lecturer

Department
Nutritional Sciences
Elsie Moore

Postdoctoral Associate

Department
Nutritional Sciences
Malden Nesheim

Professor Emeritus; Provost Emeritus

Department
Nutritional Sciences
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Marion Nestle

Courtesy Professor

Department
Nutritional Sciences
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Department
Nutritional Sciences
Focus areas
Maternal/fetal nutrition, Vitamin D + iron, Gut microbiome
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Angela Odoms-Young

Nancy Schlegel Meinig Associate Professor of Maternal and Child Nutrition

Department
Nutritional Sciences
Focus areas
Health equity/racism, Food and nutrition security, Social and structural determinants
Christine Olson

Professor Emerita

Department
Nutritional Sciences
Joan Paddock

Senior Extension Emeritus

Department
Nutritional Sciences
Pilar Parra

Senior Lecturer Emerita

Department
Nutritional Sciences
David Pelletier

Professor Emeritus

Department
Nutritional Sciences
Juan Pablo Peña-Rosas
Juan Pablo Peña-Rosas

Courtesy Professor

Department
Nutritional Sciences
Focus areas
nutritional epidemiology, global policy, international nutrition
Erica Phillips
Erica Phillips

Joint Professor

Department
Nutritional Sciences
Focus areas
Cancer prevention
Per Pinstrup-Andersen

Professor Emeritus and Graduate School Professor

Department
Nutritional Sciences
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Angela Poole

Assistant Professor

Department
Nutritional Sciences
Focus areas
Precision nutrition, Gut microbiota and metabolic health, Oral microbiota and pathologies
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Shu-Bing Qian

James Jamison Professor

Department
Nutritional Sciences
Focus areas
Translational reprogramming, Nutrient stress response, mRNA epigenetics
Kelly Quinn
Kelly Quinn

Lecturer

Department
Nutritional Sciences
Focus areas
Community-engaged learning, Dietetics
Department
Nutritional Sciences
Kathleen Rasmussen
Kathleen Rasmussen

Professor Emerita

Department
Nutritional Sciences
Annett Richter

Research Associate

Department
Nutritional Sciences
Caitlin Romagnola
Caitlin Romagnola

Courtesy Lecturer

Department
Nutritional Sciences
Philip Ruppert

Research Associate

Department
Nutritional Sciences
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David Sahn

Professor

Department
Nutritional Sciences
Focus areas
Global health, Nutrition + economics in developing countries, Global food policy
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Patrick Schrauwen

Courtesy Professor

Department
Nutritional Sciences
Focus areas
Muscle metabolism, Mitochondria, Exercise, Brown Fat + Nutrition
Shengchao Shi

Postdoctoral Associate

Department
Nutritional Sciences
Srishti Sinha

Postdoctoral Associate

Department
Nutritional Sciences
Erin Sley

Postdoctoral Fellow

Department
Nutritional Sciences
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Christina Stark

Senior Extension Associate Emerita

Department
Nutritional Sciences
Martha Stipanuk

Professor Emerita

Department
Nutritional Sciences
Rebecca Stoltzfus

Professor Emerita

Department
Nutritional Sciences
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Barbara Strupp

Professor Emerita

Department
Nutritional Sciences
Focus areas
Maternal choline intake and impacts, Choline and cognition
Vinni Novi Thekkudan

Postdoctoral Associate

Department
Nutritional Sciences
Sharon Clare Thompson

Postdoctoral Associate

Department
Nutritional Sciences
Erik Thorbecke

Professor Emeritus

Department
Nutritional Sciences
Saori Uematsu

Postdoctoral Associate

Department
Nutritional Sciences
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Meng Wang

Assistant Professor

Department
Nutritional Sciences
Focus areas
Nutrition and metabolism in DNA damage, Cancer and aging, Targeted treatments for DNA damage
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Yuhan Wang

Lois and Mel Tukman Assistant Professor

Department
Nutritional Sciences
Focus areas
Brain-body interactions that govern metabolic regulation
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Jennifer Wilkins

Courtesy Professor of Practice

Department
Nutritional Sciences
Shuchang Zhao

Postdoctoral Associate

Department
Nutritional Sciences
Victor Wenze Zhong
Victor Wenze Zhong

Courtesy Assistant Professor

Department
Nutritional Sciences