December 2024
Sustainable Food Systems and Healthy Diets Research in FNS
Sustainable Food Systems and Healthy Diets Research in FNS
Lecturer and researcher focusing on alternative protein ingredients and dietary fibre (food tech, nutrition, environment)
Link to researcher profile:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Aylin-Sahin-3
Dr Miriam Clegg joined the School as Senior Lecturer in Nutrition in 2023. Her main areas of research interest include examining the role of food and diet on appetite, incorporating markers of food intake, eating behaviours and nutritional status including gastrointestinal transit, energy expenditure and hormones related to appetite.
Link to researcher profile:
https://research.ucc.ie/profiles/D018/MClegg@ucc.ie
"Meeting nutritional requirements from Diets from Sustainable Sources: recent data and future plans"
Email: m.kiely@ucc.ie
Professor Mairead Kiely is Professor of Human Nutrition in the School of Food and Nutritional Sciences. She is co-director of the Cork Centre for Vitamin D and Nutrition Research and is a PI at the INFANT Research Centre. Her research is mainly in micronutrients, in particular vitamin D, and maternal and child nutrition and development.
Link to researcher profile:
https://publish.ucc.ie/researchprofiles/D018/mkiely
Professor of Human Nutrition, Cornell University
"Bioavailability and Sustainability – a dietary balancing act"
Kimberly O’Brien is a Professor of Human Nutrition in the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University. She received her B.S. in Biology from the University of New Hampshire and her PhD in Nutrition from the University of Connecticut, Storrs. Her professional training included fellowships with the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Laboratory of Theoretical and Physical Biology/Section for Metabolic Analysis and Mass Spectrometry and the Children’s Nutrition Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine. Professor O'Brien joined the faculty in the Division of Nutritional Sciences after working for 10 years as a faculty member in the Center of Human Nutrition at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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