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Nutrition, Biomarkers, & Health
WHO WE ARE
ABOUT US
ABOUT US
Group members in the Nutrition, Biomarkers, & Health lab
Professor Lorraine Brennan
Professor & Principal Investigator
Professor Brennan investigates metabolism and altered metabolic pathways in health and disease. She previously served as Director of the European Nutrigenomics Organisation (NuGO). She is a recipient of an ERC consolidator grant (2015) and participates in a number of national and European projects.
OUR GROUP
Dr Aoife O'Gorman
Research Project Manager
Dr. Ya Gao
Post-doc
Ya Gao is a Post Doc who is aiming to use metabolomics techniques to identify biomarkers of commonly consumed foods.
Dr. Alix Hughes
Post-doc
Alix is a Post Doc working on the US-Ireland-2 project, which aims to further our understanding of how diet quality and food processing impact cardiometabolic health. This study is a collaboration between UCD, Queens University Belfast, and Harvard University
Aoife Courtney
PhD student
Aoife Courtney’s PhD research is examining the impact of diversification of protein intake on biomarkers of nutrition status and health.
Tilde Martinsen
PhD Student
Tilde Martinsen works on Data-driven Precision Nutrition in the MSCA-project NUTRIOME, focusing on how to handle and combine multi-omics data, to evaluate the response to foods and diets.
Hannah Alley
PhD student
Hannah Alley's PhD is on the US-Ireland project that aims to use metabolomics to identify biomarkers in Ultra-Processed foods. This project is a collaboration between UCD, Queens University Belfast and Harvard School of Public Health.
Niamh Yep
PhD student
Niamh Yep's PhD is on the Co-Centre Sustainable Food System project, focusing on examining the approaches to enable a shift to more sustainable diets in the Irish population
Ayindrila Dutta
PhD student
Ayindrila is a PhD student funded by VistaMilk, working to link dairy omics with human health outcomes.
Recent Team Members
Dr. Claire Connolly (PROMED & PlantIntake)
Ms. Rebecca Finlay (US-Ireland)
Ms. Rebekah Sweeney (Protein-I & US-Ireland)
Shubbham Gupta
Wenxuan Liu
Dr. Xiaofei Yin
Dr. Elaine Hillesheim (PlantIntake)
Dr. Janine Wirth (Protein and Health)
Dr. Teresa Grohmann (PAD-Q)
Dr. Geetha Sundaramoorthy
Dr. Roberta Hack Mendes (Optiage)
Dr. Silva D'Angelo (A-DIET)
Dr. Aoife McNamara (A-DIET)
Ms. Orla Prendiville completed her Masters in 2020
Ms. Maria Heffernan completed her Masters in 2020
Dr Roshaida Abdul Wahab completed her PhD in 2019
Dr S.C. Sri Harsha Pedapati (FOODBALL)
Dr Diana Gonzalez-Pena (A-DIET)
Dr Cassandra Collins (A-DIET)
Dr. Celia Rodriguez Perez (bio4Health)
Dr. Francisco Madrid-Gambin (ALSPAC)
Dr Olga Grant (A-DIET)
Dr Katy Horner (Food for Health Ireland)
Dr Laura Kirwan (Food4Me)
Dr Miriam Ryan (ENPADASI)
Dr. Taciane Alegra (A-DIET & Foodball)
Dr Kaifeng Li completed his PhD in 2016
Dr. Helena Gibbons completed her PhD in 2016
Dr. Aoife Curran completed her PhD in 2017
Dr. Claire Erraught completed her PhD in 2019
Jenny Davison contributed to updating the HMDB schizophrenia metabocard.
Victoria O'Sullivan (FHI & A-DIET)
Ilona Csizmadia (A-DIET)
All are using their skills elsewhere now - we wish them well!
Visiting Researchers
The group often hosts visiting scientists and students undertaking part of their research or training in UCD.
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