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Nutritional genomics, also known as nutrigenomics, is a science studying the relationship between human genome, human nutrition and health. People in the field work toward developing an understanding of how the whole body responds to a food via systems biology , as well as single gene/single food compound relationships.
The college is home to four internationally top-ranked academic departments: Agriculture and Resource Economics; Environmental Science, Policy, and Management; Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology; and Plant and Microbial Biology, and one interdisciplinary program, Energy and Resources Group.
Dept. of Pathobiology and Veterinary Science: undergraduate education is designed for students who intend to enter medical (Pre-Med), dentistry (Pre-Dental), veterinary (Pre-Vet), or graduate institutions. The MS and Ph.D. graduate degree programs in Pathobiology include areas of focus in bacteriology, pathology, and virology.
Areas of specialty include the socioeconomic parameters of malnutrition, nutrition program design and implementation, social marketing and development policy. Graduates of the programs in these areas are employed in government and non-governmental agencies as well as private voluntary organizations throughout the world and in the United States.
Faculty, staff, and students in the College of Agricultural Sciences contribute extensively to extension and engagement in agricultural sciences and education. Some notable programs include the Temple Grandin Equine Center, [16] the Colorado Food Systems Program, [17] the Plant Select Program, [18] and the Plant Diagnostic Clinic. [19]
The College of Natural Science (NatSci) at Michigan State University is home to 27 departments and programs in the biological, physical and mathematical sciences. [1]The college averages $83M in research expenditures annually and claims to have more than 6,500 undergraduate majors and nearly 1,000 graduate students.
The comprehensive research program at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center focuses on ten specific research program areas as outlined below. Researchers in these divisions rely on the latest molecular, physiological, clinical, behavioral, and bioinformatics technologies with the ultimate goal of preventing common diseases such as heart ...
These contributions include advancements in the knowledge of the role of dietary calcium [7] [8] and vitamin D in promoting nutrition and bone health, [9] the role of nutrients in maintaining the optimal immune response [10] and prevention of infectious diseases, role of diet in prevention of cancer, obesity research, [11] modifications to the ...