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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.
Claire Connolly
Post-doc
Dr. Connolly works on the JPI-funded project PlantIntake and PROMED projects. PlantIntake aims to combine biomarker panels and dietary intake data to improve the assessment of plant-based diets, while PROMED looks at the impact of the mediterranean diet on the metabolite profile and cognitive function.
Rebecca Finlay
PhD student
Rebecca Finlay's PhD is on the US-Ireland project that aims to use metabolomics techniques to identify biomarkers of commonly consumed foods. This study involves collaboration between UCD, Queens University Belfast and Harvard School of Public Health.
Shubbham Gupta
PhD student
Shubbham Gupta's PhD research is aiming to explore the individual variation in metabolite levels using repeated measurements.
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.
Wenxuan Liu
PhD student
Wenxuan Liu’s PhD research is aiming to develop a soft clustering approach for the analysis of high dimensional metabolomics data.
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.
Rebekah Sweeney
Research Assistant
Rebekah Sweeney works on the Protein-I and HRB funded US-Ireland project. She perfoms metabolomic analysis and data analysis using NMR to identify food based biomarkers.
Recent Team Members
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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