OUR EXPERTS

Dr Philippa Jackson

Director of the Brain Performance and Nutrition Research Centre

• Effects of bioactive lipids on brain function and behaviour (cognition, psychological state, stress, sleep)
• Effects of nutrients and dietary supplements on cognitive performance
• Nutritional support for sleep
• Brain health across the lifespan
• Individual differences in response to treatment

Professor Glyn Howatson

Professor of Molecular Nutrition and Executive Dean, Faculty of Health & Life Sciences

• Understanding fatigue / stress, recovery and adaptation to optimising human performance
• Use of functional foods to manipulate physiological function for health and improved exercise capacity
• Integrated applied physiology that use molecules-to-man approach to understand the brain to muscle interaction

Dr Jose Lara Gallegos

Senior Lecturer in Human Nutrition

• Lycopene and Tomato and risk of cardiovascular diseases
• Relationship between sodium and hypertension
• Dietary nitrite supplementation on blood pressure

Professor Jason Ellis

Director of the Northumbria Centre for Sleep Research (NCSR)

• The causes and consequences of insomnia
• The assessment, diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders
• The mechanisms underpinning sleep and wakefulness

Dr Darren Smith

Professor of Bacteriophage Biology within the Department of Applied Biology, Cellular and Molecular Sciences/Microbiology Group

• Microbiome studies
• Whole genome sequencing
• RNA-Seq
• Isoform sequencing and epigenetics

Dr Iain Brownlee

Associate Professor in Biology, Food and Nutrition

• Dietary assessment
• Dietary quality and dietary patterns
• Dietary fibre, whole grains and seaweeds on cardiovascular, metabolic and gastrointestinal health
• Novel technology for nutrition and health assessment