Environmental Health Sciences Center

Dr. Carolyn Slupsky is a Nutritionist and a Professor in the Department of Food Science and Technology. Her research focuses on understanding the impact of diet on human health from the perspective of nutrition, the gut microbiome, and host-microbial co-metabolism.

Positions at UC Davis

• Principal Investigator, Slupsky Lab
• Nutritionist in AES
• Professor, Department of Food Science & Technology
• Kinsella Endowed Chair in Food, Nutrition, and Health

Areas of Expertise

• Food
• Nutrition
• Personalized Health

Major Research Papers

Impact of milk secretor status on the fecal metabolome and microbiota of breastfed infants, A Wang, A Diana, S Rahmannia, RS Gibson, LA Houghton, CM Slupsky, Gut Microbes 15 (2), 2257273, 2023

The essential roles of FXR in diet and age influenced metabolic changes and liver disease development: a multi-omics study, G Yang, PK Jena, Y Hu, L Sheng, SY Chen, CM Slupsky, R Davis, ...Biomarker Research 11 (1), 1-19, 2023

Type 2–resistant starch and Lactiplantibacillus plantarum NCIMB 8826 result in additive and interactive effects in diet-induced obese mice, J Barouei, A Martinic, Z Bendiks, D Mishchuk, D Heeney, CM Slupsky, ...Nutrition Research 118, 12-28, 2023

Milk oligosaccharide-driven persistence of Bifidobacterium pseudocatenulatum modulates local and systemic microbial metabolites upon synbiotic treatment in …JA Larke, BE Heiss, AM Ehrlich, DH Taft, HE Raybould, DA Mills, ...Microbiome 11 (1), 194, 202