Assistant Clinical Professor in Nutrition and Dietetics, Mississippi State University Mandy Conrad, Ph.D., RDN, LD received her doctorate in nutrition from Mississippi State University in 2021. She received her master’s degree in health promotion, as well as two bachelor’s degrees in food and nutrition and in fitness management from Mississippi State. Dr. Conrad completed a dietetic internship at the University of Delaware and has been a registered dietitian since 2004. She has many years of experience in clinical and community settings and served as a registered dietitian on staff at Mississippi State from 2008 until joining the Department of Food Science, Nutrition and Health Promotion in an academic role in 2017. Dr. Conrad teaches a variety of nutrition classes and serves as the Didactic Program in Dietetics Director. Her professional interests are motivated by a desire to understand factors influencing health-impacting choices, which has inspired research related to food insecurity and the pursuit of continued community and global outreach.
Senior Lecturer, Te Huataki Waiora School of Health, University of Waikato I am a PhD candidate and Senior Lecturer at the University of Waikato. My areas of research are with young Māori and Pasifika wāhine (women) and their engagement and experiences with physical activity and sport.
Professor of Sustainability, Lancaster University Mike Berners-Lee is an expert in sustainable organisation development, climate change and carbon metrics. He is the author of 'There Is No Planet B', 'How Bad Are Bananas? The carbon footprint of everything' and co-author of 'The Burning Question'. He is a founding director at Small World Consulting, and a professor at Lancaster University's Institute for Social Futures, where he looks at better futures, how to get there and how to think practically about these questions.
Étudiant la maîtrise en biologie, Université Laval Je réalise actuellement une maîtrise en biologie à l'Université Laval, où je me penche sur la prédation du renard arctique sur les nids d'oies des neiges. À partir d'observations comportementales et d'expériences sur le terrain nous vérifions des hypothèses concernant les mécanismes influençant la force de l'interaction de prédation. Le baccalauréat en biologie à l'Université du Québec à Montréal, m'a permis de participer durant deux étés à des études sur la faune cavicole en Abitibi. Les projets étaient surtout centrés sur le Grand pic et les utilisateurs secondaires des cavités qu'il creuse dans les arbres.
Senior Research Fellow in the Collaboration on Energy and Environmental Markets and the School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering, UNSW Sydney Mike is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering (SPREE) and in the multi-disciplinary Collaboration on Energy and Environmental Markets (CEEM) at UNSW Sydney. His research aims to address the inter-related technical, economic and social challenges to deploying more renewables and integrating them into the energy system. Mike's particular interests include distributed energy resources (including solar photovoltaics, batteries and electric vehicles), household electrification and demand flexibility, energy resilience, user engagement and behaviour, community energy and energy justice.
Visiting Postdoctoral Scientist, Food Microbiome Interactions, Quadram Institute I joined the Quadram institute as a visiting post-doc. scientist, at the Kroon Group in January,2023. I work on studying the effects of different polyphenols and plant extracts on the gut microbial metabolism and the associated health benefits accompanied with their consumption. I also work on extracting, fractionating, metabolic profiling of polyphenol-rich extracts and isolating the bioactive constituents of promising extracts for further in-depth studies of their individual influence on gut microbial metabolism. I am originally from Egypt where I got my bachelor degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences (excellent degree with honors) from the Faculty of Pharmacy, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt (July, 2008). Then, I started my academic and research career working as Teaching Assistant and MSc. student at the department of pharmacognosy and phytochemistry (April 2009 to July 2013) then as Assistant Lecturer and PhD student at the same department (July 2013 to January 2020). Since February 2020, I am an Assistant Professor of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry and Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. My research interest is mainly focused on food microbiome interactions, medicinal chemistry and plant metabolomics. I am highly experienced in the field of extraction, isolation and purification of naturally occurring secondary metabolites from natural origin especially terrestrial plants manipulating different chromatographic techniques as well as structure elucidation of isolated bioactive molecules utilizing the various techniques of spectroscopy (UV, IR, NMR) and mass spectrometry. During my scientific visit at Quadram Institute, I gain a lot of experience in the field of quantitative metabolomics and in vitro colon model experiments.
