Food
Aug. 19, 2026
Shelley Curry
Curry is an Assistant Professor of Meat Science in the Division of Animal Sciences at the University of Missouri. Curry’s research program focuses on fresh meat quality and lipid biology, with an emphasis on understanding how animal nutrition, physiology and pre-harvest stress influence muscle lipid metabolism, carcass composition and subsequent meat quality. Research themes encompass: 1) determining how nutritional and environmental factors alter lipid deposition and metabolism in skeletal muscle, 2) investigating relationships among muscle lipid characteristics, fatty acid composition and fresh meat quality, 3) developing pre-harvest strategies to improve meat quality, consistency and shelf life, and…
July 25, 2023
Dojin (DJ) Ryu
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May 22, 2023
Ruojie Vanessa Zhang
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Feb. 21, 2023
Zipei Zhang
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Aug. 15, 2021
Kantha Channaiah
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July 13, 2021
Rui Yao
Rui Yao’s research focuses on consumer and family financial decision-making and well-being. Specific topics include financial resilience, debt management, saving and investment behavior and motives, risk tolerance, financial capability, consumption patterns, employment-leisure decisions, as well as mental and physical health outcomes of financial events. Her interdisciplinary work targets at providing implications to stakeholders of consumer and family well-being and impacted millions of consumers and families through her publications, presentations, and media interviews. She received the best paper award from the CFP Board, AARP, American Council on Consumer Interests, and American Association of Family & Consumer Sciences. She is the…
June 29, 2021
Jaapna Dhillon
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June 29, 2021
Victoria Vieira-Potter
The Vieira-Potter laboratory studies sex differences in adipose tissue metabolism, and how sex hormones (namely, estrogen) and exercise affect fat cell metabolism. This is done via use of a variety of animal models and state-of-the-art molecular tools. Our goal is to determine adipose (i.e., fat) tissue-specific mechanisms by which hormone shifts and obesity affect cardiometabolic disease risk, and to discover novel interventions to mitigate this risk by specifically targeting adipose tissue. Our work has demonstrated that female hormone loss adversely affects adipose tissue both directly, via loss of the protective effects of estrogen receptor signaling, and indirectly, via brain-specific…
June 23, 2020
Pavel Somavat
Pavel Somavat has a joint appointment in the Division of Food, Nutrition & Exercise Sciences and the Department of Chemical & Biomedical Engineering. His research interests are multi-disciplinary and include extraction optimization of anthocyanins and other polyphenolic compounds from pigmented corn varieties and utilizing them for novel, value-added applications as active food ingredients. Examples include formulation of anthocyanin-based natural red food colorants for the economic replacement of synthetic FD&C Red 3 and FD&C Red 40 dyes and evaluation of their thermal and storage stabilities in different food matrices. His group also specializes in environmentally friendly soy processing for improved…
Sep. 6, 2019
Jay J. Thelen
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