Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences [Dept. of Nutritional Sciences]

Graduate Program Faculty

 

Shawn M. Arent, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Exercise Science & Sport Studies, Rutgers University

Phone: 732-932-9525
Email: smarent@rci.rutgers.edu

  • Research: Exercise physiology and sport and exercise psychology
  Elisa V. Bandera, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
The Cancer Institute of New Jersey, UMDNJ's Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Phone: 732-235-9874
Email: elisa.bandera@umdnj.edu

  • Research: Nutritional epidemiology of cancer, female hormonal cancer
John D. Bogden, Ph.D.
Professor
Dept. of Preventive Medicine & Community Health, UMDNJ New Jersey Medical School

Phone: 973-972-5432
Email: bogden@umdnj.edu

  • Research: Trace element and mineral nutrition and toxicology

Photo: Dawn L. Brasaemle, Ph.D., Associate Professor.

Dawn L. Brasaemle, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Program
Dept. of Nutritional Sciences, Rutgers University

Phone: 732-932-6524
Email: brasaemle@aesop.rutgers.edu

  • Research: Biology of neutral lipid storage and release, functions of lipid droplet-associated proteins

Paul Breslin, Ph.D.
Professor
Office: 134 Thompson Hall
Phone: 732-932-1688
Email: breslin@aesop.rutgers.edu

  • Research: Genetics of human oral perception and fly taste perception and their impact on food and nutrient intake
 

Robert E. Brolin, M.D.
Professor
Dept. of Surgery, UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Phone: 732-565-5450
Email: rbrolin@njbariatricspc.com

  • Research: Gastrointestinal diseases, morbid obesity
Carol Byrd-Bredbenner, Ph.D., R.D.
Extension Specialist
Dept. of Nutritional Sciences, Rutgers University

Phone: 732-932-2382
Email: bredbenner@aesop.rutgers.edu

  • Research: Nutrition education, health promotion & interventions, environmental effects on dietary intake

 

 

 

George Carman, Ph. D.
Professor II
Dept. of Food Science, Rutgers University
Phone: 732-932-9611 x217
Email: carman@aesop.rutgers.edu

  • Research: Regulation of lipid metabolism
Photo: Wendie Cohick, Ph.D. Wendie Cohick, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Dept. of Animal Sciences, Rutgers University

Phone: 732-932-8165 X105
Email: cohick@aesop.rutgers.edu

  • Research: Endocrine regulation of mammary gland biology and breast cancer
Paul R. Copeland, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Molecular Genetics, Microbiology, and Immunology, UMDNJ

Phone: 732-235-4670
Email: paul.copeland@umdnj.edu

  • Research: Selenocysteine utilization, translational regulation of gene expression

Photo: Joseph L. Dixon, Ph.D., Associate Professor.

Joseph L. Dixon, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Dept. of Nutritional Sciences, Rutgers University

Phone: 732-932-9039
Email: dixon@aesop.rutgers.edu

  • Research: Lipoprotein metabolism, lipid metabolism in diabetes and obesity
  Julie M. Fagan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Dept. of Animal Sciences, Rutgers University

Phone: 732-932-8354
Email: fagan@aesop.rutgers.edu

  • Research: Muscle growth, mechanisms of protein breakdown

Nurgül Fitzgerald, Ph.D., R.D.
Assistant Extension Specialist

Dept. of Nutritional Sciences, Rutgers University
Email: nfitzgerald@rcre.rutgers.edu
Office: 229A Davison Hall
Phone: 732-932-3835

  • Research: Community nutrition, chronic disease prevention and health promotion, diabetes
  Ronaldo P. Ferraris, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Dept. of Pharmacology and Physiology, UMDNJ New Jersey Medical School

Phone: 973-972-4519
Email: ferraris@umdnj.edu

  • Research: Gastrointestinal physiology, membrane transport
Photo: Hans Fisher, Ph.D.
 
Hans Fisher, Ph.D.
Professor II Emeritus
Dept. of Nutritional Sciences, Rutgers University

Phone: 732-932-9825
Email: fisher@aesop.rutgers.edu

  • Research: Alcohol metabolism, nutrient interactions and the alcoholic fatty liver syndrome
  Peter J. Guarnaccia, Ph.D.
Professor
Dept. of Human Ecology, Rutgers University

Phone: 732-932-9153 X312
Email: guarnaccia@aesop.rutgers.edu

  • Research: Anthropology of foods and health
 

William K. Hallman
Professor
Department of Human Ecology, Rutgers University

Phone: 732-932-1966 X3103; 732-932-9153 X313
Email: hallman@aesop.rutgers.edu

  • Research: Risk perception, risk communication, consumer attitudes and behavior, food policy
Photo: Daniel Hoffman, Ph.D.
Daniel Hoffman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Dept. of Nutritional Sciences, Rutgers University

Phone: 732-932-6568
Email: dhoffman@aesop.rutgers.edu

  • Research: Energy metabolism and body composition
Photo: R. Ariel Igal, Ph.D., M.D.
 

R. Ariel Igal, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Nutritional Sciences, Rutgers University

Phone: 732-932-9717
Email: igal@aesop.rutgers.edu

  • Research: Regulation of triglyceride and fatty acid metabolism, cell proliferation, lipotoxicity, and cancer
  Barry W. Jesse, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Dept. of Animal Sciences, Rutgers University

Phone: 732-932-8165 X104
Email: jesse@aesop.rutgers.edu

  • Research: Post-natal GI tract development

 

Debra L. Laskin, Ph.D.
Professor II and Chair
Dept. of Pharmacology and Toxicology , Rutgers University School of Pharmacy

Phone: 732-445-5862
Email: laskin@eohsi.rutgers.edu

  • Research: Immunology; mechanisms regulating nonspecific host defense
  Elaine A. Leventhal, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
Dept. of Medicine, UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Phone: 732-235-6577
Email: eleventh@umdnj.edu

  • Research: Nutrition and aging
Photo: Peter Lobel, Ph.D. Peter Lobel, Ph.D.
Professor
Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Phone: 732-235-5032
Email: lobel@cabm.rutgers.edu

  • Research: Cellular protein degradation and disease
Debrah Palmer, Ph.D.
Associate Extension Specialist
Dept. of Nutritional Sciences, Rutgers University

Phone: 732-932-9853
Email: dpalmer@njaes.rutgers.edu

  • Research: Nutrition education, food security
Photo: Loredana Quadro, Ph.D. Loredana Quadro, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Food Science, Rutgers University

Phone: 732-932-9611 X261
Email: quadro@aesop.rutgers.edu

  • Research: Nutrient metabolism and effects on human health throughout the lifecycle
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Associate Professor
Dept. of Animal Sciences, Rutgers University

Phone: 732-932-9404
Email: ralston@aesop.rutgers.edu

  • Research: Equine nutrition

 

Ilya Raskin, Ph.D.
Professor II
Dept. of Plant Biology and Pathology and Biotechnology Center
Phone: 732-932-8165 x227
Email: raskin@aesop.rutgers.edu

  • Research: Botanical therapeutics, biomedical agriculture
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Yana Rodgers, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Women's and Gender Studies
Phone: 732-932-1151 x641
Email: yrodgers@rci.rutgers.edu

  • Research: Feminist economics, development economics           
  Hong Ruan, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Physiology and Biophysics, UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Phone: 732-235-5552
Email: ruanho@umdnj.edu

  • Research: Diabetes, adipose tissue, gene expression, cytokines, lipids, adipogenesis
 

Donald W. Schaffner
Extension Specialist
Dept. of Food Science, Rutgers University

Phone: 732-932-9611 x214
Email: schaffner@aesop.rutgers.edu

  • Predictive Food Microbiology; quantitative microbial risk assessment
Photo: Sue A. Shapses, Ph.D., R.D. Sue A. Shapses, Ph.D., R.D.
ProfessorI
Dept. of Nutritional Sciences, Rutgers University

Phone: 732-932-9403
Email: shapses@aesop.rutgers.edu

  • Research: Osteoporosis, bone metabolism and obesity
Adria R. Sherman, Ph.D.
Professor
Dept. of Nutritional Sciences, Rutgers University

Phone: 732-932-6530
Email: sherman_c@aesop.rutgers.edu

  • Research: Trace elements, nutrition, immunity, and cancer
  Nancy R. Stevenson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Dept. of Physiology and Biophysics, UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Phone: 732-235-4616
Email: stevenso@umdnj.edu

  • Research: Nutrition and physiology
Judith Storch, Ph.D., R.D.
Professor
Dept. of Nutritional Sciences, Rutgers University

Phone: 732-932-1689
Email: storch@aesop.rutgers.edu

  • Research: Cellular lipid transport, structure and function of fatty acid-binding proteins
Photo: Beverly J. Tepper, Ph.D. Beverly J. Tepper, Ph.D.
Professor
Dept. of Food Science, Rutgers University

Phone: 732-932-9611 X221
Email: tepper@aesop.rutgers.edu

  • Research: Food intake regulation, taste in disease
  T. J. Thomas, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Dept. of Medicine, UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Phone: 732-235-8460
Email: thomastj@umdnj.edu

  • Research: Polyamine metabolism, autoimmune disease
  Thresia K. Thomas, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Environmental and Occupational Medicine, UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Phone: 732-235-8458
Email: thomasth@umdnj.edu

  • Research: Estrogens, polyamines, and breast cancer
Malcolm Watford, D.Phil.
Professor
Dept. of Nutritional Sciences, Rutgers University

Phone: 732-932-7418
Email: watford@aesop.rutgers.edu

  • Research: Regulation of glutamine metabolism, glutaminase gene expression
  G. Terence Wilson, Ph.D.
Professor
Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology

Phone: 732-445-2194
Email: tewilson@rci.rutgers.edu

  • Research: Eating disorders
  James H. Wohlt, Ph.D.
Professor
Dept. of Animal Sciences, Rutgers University

Phone: 732-932-9454
Email: wohlt@aesop.rutgers.edu

  • Research: Nutrient requirements for growth and lactation
Photo: John Worobey, Ph.D. John Worobey, Ph.D.
Professor
Chair of Nutritional Sciences, Rutgers University

Phone: 732-932-6517
Email: worobey@rci.rutgers.edu

  • Research: Infant nutrition and behavior, children's diet and activity, eating disorders
  Chung S. Yang, Ph.D.
Professor
Dept. of Chemical Biology and Pharmacognosy, College of Pharmacy, Rutgers University

Phone: 732-445-3400 X248
Email: Email: csyang@rci.rutgers.edu

  • Research: Drug-nutrient interactions, nutrition and cancer
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