Professor
University of California, Davis
Professor Slupsky holds a joint appointment in the Departments of Nutrition and Food Science & Technology at the University of California, Davis, and is the Chair of the Graduate Group in Nutritional Biology. Her research is focused on the nexus between food, the gut microbiome, and health, with a focus on understanding how diet and the environment impact the relationship between the gut microbiome and host metabolism. She is particularly interested in how food / nutrition and environmental exposures impact the microbiome to shape prenatal and postnatal infant and child development. Professor Slupsky is a world-renowned leader in metabolomics and data integration, with more than 130 publications to date. She was named a UC Davis Chancellor’s Fellow in 2015, and the Kinsella Endowed Chair in Food, Nutrition, and Health in 2016.