Directory
Researchers
Daniela Barile, Ph.D.
- Associate Director of International Programs
- Foods For Health Institute
- Assistant Professor and Chemist
- Food Science and Technology
(530) 752-1057
Peter Belafsky
- Associate Professor
- Director of Voice and Swallowing
- UC Davis Health System
- Department of Otolaryngology
(916) 734-7470
David E. Block
- Ernest Gallo Endowed Chair in Viticulture and Enology
- Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Viticulture and Enology
- Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Jacquelyn Gervay-Hague
- Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis
(530) 754-9577
Rudolph Grimm
- Adjunct Professor, Food Science and Technology
- Director of Science and Technology, Agilent Technologies
Peter Havel
- Professor, Foods for Health Institute
- Professor, Department of Molecular Biosciences, School of Veterinary Medicine
- Professor, Department of Nutrition
(530) 752-3114
Carlito B. Lebrilla
- Professor and Department Chair, Chemistry
- Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine (School of Medicine)
(530) 752-6364
Danielle Lemay, PhD
- Head of Bioinformatics Initiative, Foods for Health Institute
David A. Mills
- Professor, Robert Mondavi Institute of Wine and Food Science, Department of Viticulture and Enology
(530) 754-7821
Helen Raybould
- Professor and Department Chair, Anatomy Physiology and Cell Biology, School of Veterinary Medicine
(530) 752-1174
Sara E. Schaefer, Ph. D.
- Associate Director of Educational Programs
- Foods For Health Institute
(530) 752-9211
Carolyn Slupsky
- Assistant Professor and Nutritionist, Foods For Health Institute
- Department of Food Science and Technology
(530) 752-6804
Jennifer T. Smilowitz, Ph. D.
- Associate Director of Human Studies Research
- Foods For Health Institute
(530) 752-1057
Mark A. Underwood
- Assistant Professor, Pediatric Neonatology, School of Medicine
Bart C. Weimer
- Professor, Population Health & Reproduction, School of Veterinary Medicine
(530) 752-5819
Angela M. Zivkovic, Ph.D.
- Associate Director of Scientific Development & Translation
- Foods For Health Institute
(530) 752-9211
Postdocs
Dan Bricarello
- Postdoctoral Researcher, UC Davis, Food Science & Technology
Katie Hinde, PhD
- Post-Doctoral Scholar
- Comparative Lactation Laboratory
- Brain, Mind, and Behavior Unit
- California National Primate Research Center
Executive Committee
Lindsay H. Allen
- Professor Emerita
- Nutritionist in Agricultural Experiment Station, Department of Nutrition
- Director, USDA ARS Western Human Nutrition Research Center
(530) 752-5268
Alan B. Bennett
- Professor, Department of Plant Sciences
- Associate Vice Chancellor for Research
(530) 752-1411 office #1 (530) 297-4496 office #2
Lars Berglund
- Professor and Associate Dean of Clinical and Translational Research, School of Medicine
- Director, Clinical & Translational Science Center
(916) 703-9120
Andrew Hargadon
- Soderquist Chair in Entrepreneurship
- Professor, Graduate School of Management
- Faculty Director, Center for Entrepreneurship
- Associate Director, Energy Efficiency Center
(530) 752-2277
Clare Hasler
- Founding Executive Director
- Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science
- University of California, Davis
Peter Havel
- Professor, Foods for Health Institute
- Professor, Department of Molecular Biosciences, School of Veterinary Medicine
- Professor, Department of Nutrition
(530) 752-3114
Charles E. Hess
- Department of Nutrition Chair 2007-2009
- Dean Emeritus, College of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences
Lovell Jarvis
- Professor
- Divisional Associate Dean for Human Sciences
- College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
(530) 752-0110
Carl L. Keen
- Chairman of the Department of Nutrition
- Professor in Nutrition and Internal Medicine
(530) 752-6331
Karen McDonald
- Professor, Associate Dean of Engineering
John C. Rutledge
- Professor
- Vice Chair of Research, Internal Medicine
- Chief of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Clinical Nutrition
(916) 734-3761
Andrew L. Waterhouse
- Professor of Enology
- Interim Department Chair
- John E. Kinsella Chair in Food, Nutrition and Health
- Department of Viticulture and Enology
(530) 752-4777
Ralph W. deVere White
- Professor
- Director of the UC Davis Cancer Center
- Assistant Dean for Cancer Programs
- UC Davis Cancer Center
(916) 734-5800
Heather M. Young
- Associate Vice Chancellor for Nursing at UC Davis
- Dean, Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis
Graduate Students
David Dallas
- PhD in Nutritional Biology, Department of Food Science and Technology
Laura Fischer
- PhD Candidate, JB German Lab, Nutritional Biology Graduate Group
Daniel Garrido
- PhD Student, Food Science and Technology
Laura Gillies
- PhD Candidate, J.B. German Lab, Food Science Graduate Group, Designated Emphasis in Biotechnology
Hyeyoung Lee
- PhD Student, Food Science Graduate Program
Stephanie Maroney
- Content Editor, Foods for Health Institute
- Ph.D. Student, Cultural Studies
Elizabeth McNiven
- PhD Student in Nutritional Biology
Natasha Stephens
- Graduate Student, Department of Food Science and Technology
Leadership
Daniela Barile, Ph.D.
- Associate Director of International Programs
- Foods For Health Institute
- Assistant Professor and Chemist
- Food Science and Technology
(530) 752-1057
Samara Freeman, Ph.D.
- Associate Director of Business Development
- Foods for Health Institute
(530) 752-9211
Sara E. Schaefer, Ph. D.
- Associate Director of Educational Programs
- Foods For Health Institute
(530) 752-9211
Jennifer T. Smilowitz, Ph. D.
- Associate Director of Human Studies Research
- Foods For Health Institute
(530) 752-1057
Angela M. Zivkovic, Ph.D.
- Associate Director of Scientific Development & Translation
- Foods For Health Institute
(530) 752-9211
FFHI Faculty
Nilesh Gaikwad
- Assistant Professor, Department of Nutrition/ Department of Environmental Toxicology
- Assistant Nutritionist in Agricultural Experiment Station
(530) 752-5255
Peter Havel
- Professor, Foods for Health Institute
- Professor, Department of Molecular Biosciences, School of Veterinary Medicine
- Professor, Department of Nutrition
(530) 752-3114
William Ristenpart
- Assistant Professor and Chemical Engineer
- Department of Food Science and Technology
(530) 752-8780
Carolyn Slupsky
- Assistant Professor and Nutritionist, Foods For Health Institute
- Department of Food Science and Technology
(530) 752-6804
Li Tian
- Assistant Professor
- College of Biological Sciences
- Department of Plant Sciences
(530) 752-0940
