Person Grouping: institute-associate

Waylon Hastings
Beth Racine

Texas A&M AgriLife Research Center at El Paso Center Director and Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Associate Department Head for Nutrition Extension Project: Precision Nutrition research in adolescent females. The 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) indicates that the population group with the greatest differences between recommended food group amounts and current intakes is adolescent females…
Matthew Taylor

Professor, Meat Science Project: Microbial Food Safety. The use of raw or improperly composted manure by small farms is a common practice that may result in contamination of produce with foodborne pathogens originated from livestock intestinal reservoirs. Additionally, a contributing factor to the dissemination of pathogen-contaminated food crops is the opportunity for harvest equipment and…
Robert Chapkin

Allen Endowed Chair in Nutrition & Chronic Disease Prevention, Distinguished Professor, Regents Professor, University Faculty Fellow, and NCI R35 Outstanding Investigator Project: Human milk Oligosaccharides in gut health. Epidemiologic studies support numerous benefits of breastfeeding compared to formula feeding, particularly related to gut and immune outcomes. Gastrointestinal and immune development are influenced by dietary intake…
Heidi Vanden Brink

Assistant Professor, Nutrition Building an interdisciplinary research program that intersects nutrition, metabolism, and reproductive physiology and is guided by the overarching aim: to detect, understand, and prevent the integrative mechanisms responsible for aberrant reproductive development during the adolescent reproductive transition. The Vanden Brink Lab studies how polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) can manifest during adolescence and the…