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
 

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
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
  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
Photo: Sue A. Shapses, Ph.D., R.D. Sue A. Shapses, Ph.D., R.D.
Professor I
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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