Faculty

Gregory Aponte

Professor
health and nutrition, nutritional sciences, signaling between the gut and the brain, neuropeptides, G-protein coupled receptors

Ana Paula Arruda

Assistant Professor
remodeling of the ER structure and contact sites with other organelles translate in alterations in metabolic regulation during nutritional fluctuations in physiology and metabolic diseases.

Danica Chen

Professor
Aging, stem cell, metabolism, diseases of aging

Alessandra Ferrari

Assistant Professor
cholesterol trafficking, lipid metabolism, non-vesicular transport, cell biology, metabolic disease

Marc Hellerstein

Professor
plant biology, health and nutrition

Sona Kang

Associate Professor
metabolism, obesity, adipose tissue, epigenetics

Susana Matias

Cooperative Extension Specialist
About Susana Matias

Dr. Matias is a Cooperative Extension Specialist in the Department of Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology (NST) at the University of California, Berkeley. She has 10+ years of experience in public health nutrition and a training profile that blends nutrition, epidemiology and psychology. Her research focuses on food access and its connection with dietary patterns and health. She studies maternal and child nutrition, immigrant health, food security, and obesity and diabetes prevention through nutritional and behavior change. Prior to joining NST, Dr. Matias was an...

David Moore

Professor
nuclear receptor molecular biology, gene regulation

Anders Näär

Professor
gene expression, microRNAs, mammalian cell metabolism, Metabolic Diseases, obesity, Type 2 diabetes, NAFLD/NASH, cancer therapies

Joni Nikkanen

Assistant Professor
neurobiology, metabolism, sex differences, neuroendocrinilogy, innate immunity and infectious diseases