Faculty Members

Research Interest: Vitamin A (retinoid) homeostasis in health and human disease

Research Interest: Triacylglycerol and cholesterol metabolism (cell biology of obesity, cardiovascular disease, fatty liver disease and production of hepatitis C virus)

Research Interest: Etiology of obesity, T2DM and other chronic diseases.

Research Interest: Nutrition, metabolism, physiology, behaviour, food health and chronic disease

Research Interest: Molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration in Huntington's disease

Research Interest: Regulation of phosphatidylcholine (PC) biosynthesis in mammalian cells and the function of PC synthesis in liver failure, obesity, and diabetes.

Research Interest: Intracellular lipid trafficking in mammalian cells, role of ER-mitochondria contacts (MAM) in phospholipid import into mitochondria and cholesterol in the brain, particularly in relation to Niemann-Pick type C disease

Research Interest: Evaluating the impact of nutrition and pharmacotherapies on intestinal lipid metabolism and cardiometabolic risk

Research Interest: Characterize stress-related hormone signalling pathways in the brain and the neurocircuitry that drive the regulation of hepatic fuel production

Research Interest: Regulation of cholesterol homeostasis