Faculty

Gregory Aponte

Professor
MBN Faculty
Metabolic Biology
Endocrinology
health and nutrition, nutritional sciences, signaling between the gut and the brain, neuropeptides, G-protein coupled receptors

Ana Paula Arruda

Assistant Professor
MBN Faculty
Metabolic Biology
Endocrinology
remodeling of the ER structure and contact sites with other organelles translate in alterations in metabolic regulation during nutritional fluctuations in physiology and metabolic diseases.

Danica Chen

Professor
MBN Faculty
Endocrinology
Molecular Toxicology
Aging, stem cell, metabolism, diseases of aging

Alessandra Ferrari

Assistant Professor
MBN Faculty
Metabolic Biology
cholesterol trafficking, lipid metabolism, non-vesicular transport, cell biology, metabolic disease

Marc Hellerstein

Professor
MBN Faculty
Metabolic Biology
plant biology, health and nutrition

Sona Kang

Associate Professor
MBN Faculty
Metabolic Biology
Endocrinology
Molecular Toxicology
metabolism, obesity, adipose tissue, epigenetics

Susana Matias

Cooperative Extension Specialist
MBN Faculty
MNSD
About Susana Matias

I am a public health nutrition researcher with a training profile that blends nutrition, epidemiology and psychology. Prior to joining the department, I was an Assistant Project Scientist in the Department of Nutrition at the University of California, Davis.

Research Description

My research centers on topics that promote health through nutrition and prevent nutrition related conditions, with a focus on disadvantaged populations. A central theme in my research is access to food and its connection with dietary patterns and health. I study these connections in the...

David Moore

Professor
MBN Faculty
Metabolic Biology
Endocrinology
Molecular Toxicology
nuclear receptor molecular biology, gene regulation

Anders Näär

Professor
MBN Faculty
Metabolic Biology
gene expression, microRNAs, mammalian cell metabolism, Metabolic Diseases, obesity, Type 2 diabetes, NAFLD/NASH, cancer therapies

Joni Nikkanen

Assistant Professor
MBN Faculty
Metabolic Biology
neurobiology, metabolism, sex differences, neuroendocrinology, innate immunity and infectious diseases