Person Grouping: Postdoctoral Researchers

Hyewon Han, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral researcher at the Texas A&M AgriLife Institute for Advancing Health Through Agriculture, IHA. She earned her Ph.D. in Nutrition from Texas A&M University under the mentorship of Yuxiang Sun, Ph.D., M.D., and received her Master’s degree in Food and Nutrition from Yonsei University. Han’s research focuses on immunometabolism in…

Prabina Bhattarai, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral researcher at the Texas A&M AgriLife Institute for Advancing Health Through Agriculture, IHA. Her research focuses on how environmental and nutritional factors influence maternal and offspring health, with a particular interest in developmental programming and its role in long-term chronic disease. Bhattarai earned her Ph.D. in Exercise and Nutrition…

Ana Nava holds a Ph.D. in Food Science and Technology from Texas A&M University. She earned her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Biotechnology from Tecnológico de Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico. Her doctoral research focused on investigating the effects of dark sweet cherry anthocyanins on triple-negative breast cancer drug resistance and metastasis, with an emphasis on…

Ravi Yadav, Ph.D., is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Texas A&M AgriLife Institute for Advancing Health Through Agriculture, IHA, where he works with Teresa A. Davis, Ph.D., Director of IHA and Principal Investigator of the Precision Nutrition for Healthy Preterm Growth Laboratory. Under Davis’s mentorship, Yadav conducts research in pediatric and translational nutrition, focusing…

Hannah Jeffery, Ph.D., works in the laboratory of Tim Paape, Ph.D., USDA-ARS, as an employee of the Texas A&M AgriLife Institute for Advancing Health Through Agriculture, IHA. She uses mRNA-sequencing, genotyping, whole-genome sequencing, co-expression network analysis, metabolomics, ionomics and more to improve the nutritional value of maize, Zea mays, and sorghum, Sorghum bicolor. Her work…