Carolyn Slupsky, PhD
Principal investigator. cslupsky@ucdavis.edu
Dr. Carolyn Slupsky is currently a professor in the Departments of Nutrition, and Food Science & Technology at the University of California, Davis. She is an NMR spectroscopist, with a PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Alberta, Canada. Her research background includes metabolomics, protein structure and function, receptor-ligand and protein-protein interactions, structure-aided drug design, and software development. She previously served as Chief Scientific Officer for Chenomx Inc., developing software for metabolite analysis by NMR, and pioneered the technique of targeted profiling by NMR. She previously led metabolomics translational research at the University of Alberta for several years, focusing on diagnostics in infectious and pulmonary diseases, gastroenterology and oncology, and is now engaged in research at UC Davis to understand the role of bacteria in health and the onset and progression of disease.
Carolyn Slupsky’s full publications and recent presentations
Current lab members:
| Name | Role | Email (@ucdavis.edu) |
| Carolyn Slupsky, PhD | Professor | cslupsky |
| Xuan He | Lab research Supervisor | xuahe |
| Darya Mishchuk, PhD | Staff Research Associate | domishchuk |
| Kirsten Roslund, phD | Postdoctoral Researcher | kjroslund |
| Natalia Ribeiro | Graduate student – Food Science Graduate Group | nribeiro |
| Abby Galyon | Graduate student – Graduate Group in Nutritional Biology | amgalyon |
| Amara Benn | Graduate student – Graduate Group in Nutritional Biology | adbenn |
| Akiko Kajiura | Graduate student – Graduate Group in Nutritional Biology | akajiura |
| Akanksha Pabari | Undergraduate intern | adpabari |
| Zhangyun (May) Ju | Undergraduate intern | zju |
| Jacqueline Mejia-Plaza | Undergraduate intern | jmejiaplaza |
| Laura Westphal | Undergraduate intern | lkwestphal |
| Annie (Siqi) Wu | Undergraduate intern | anewu |
| Kanghee Bae | Undergraduate intern | khbae |
| Olivia Torres | Undergraduate intern | ogtorres |
| Emily Sun | Undergraduate intern | sqysun |
Slupsky Lab Alumni:
Postdoctoral Scholars:
Zhichao Zhang, PhD, 2021-2023
Shannon McClorry, PhD, 2019- 2023
Hanna Lee, PhD. 2020-2021
Emily Padhi, PhD. 2016-2020
Elizabeth Chin, PhD. 2017-2018
Shin-yu Chen, PhD. 2015-2017
Ann Spevacek, PhD, 2013-2015
Rebecca Lobo, PhD, 2013-2015
Aifric O’Sullivan, PhD, 2011-2012
Graduate students:
Mariana Parenti, PhD, Graduate Group in Nutritional Biology, Class of 2023
Hareem Siddiqi, MS, Graduate Group in Nutritional Biology, Class of 2022
Sydney Thomas, MS, Food Science Graduate Group, Class of 2022
Rachel Lombardi, PhD, Food Science Graduate Group, Class of 2021
Caitlin French, PhD, Graduate Group in Nutritional Biology, Class of 2021
Aidong Wang, PhD, Food Science Graduate Group, Class of 2021
Jules Larke, PhD, Graduate Group in Nutritional Biology, Class of 2021
Yu Hasegawa, PhD, Food Science Graduate Group, Class of 2020
Christopher McNeil, PhD, Food Science Graduate Group, Class of 2020
Hanna Lee, PhD, Food Science Graduate Group, Class of 2020
Laurynne Chetelat Coates, PhD, Microbiology Graduate Group, Class of 2020
Shannon McClorry, PhD, Graduate Group in Nutritional Biology, Class of 2019
Alice Martinic, PhD, Graduate Group in Nutritional Biology, Class of 2019
Jennie Sotelo Orozco, PhD, Graduate Group in Nutritional Biology, Class of 2017
Elizabeth Chin, PhD, Food Science Graduate Group, Class of 2017
Ashneel Krishna, MS, Graduate Group in Nutritional Biology, Class of 2013
Anne Slisz, MS, Food Science Graduate Group, Class of 2012
Elizabeth McNiven (Libby), MS, Graduate Group in Nutritional Biology, Class of 2012
Natasha Stephens, MS, Food Science Graduate Group, Class of 2011
Undergraduate students:
2022-2023: Yixuan Zhang, Liu Shi
2021-2022: Samantha Diaz
2020-2021: Gillian Cabral
2019-2021: Ellie Ahles
2019-2020: Haoxuan (Kimi) Wang, Daniel (Danny) Neyshloss. Janae Yoshida, Yinan (Ada) Huang, Yue-Liang (Yue) Brewerton, Arkady Tveretinov
2018-2019: Tian Gan, Kristine Yada
2014-2018: Duncan Sylvestre
2017-2019: Nicole Finney
2015-2017: Ana Skomal
2015-2016: Vincent Djie, Faustin Saputra, Steven Stearns, Christa Baker, Sohee Cho, Laura Chinh
2015: Fian Louie, Gregory Fong
2014: Katherine Park
2013: Sandy Shi, Bronte Lee Shan Chan
2012-2013: Jae Hun Kim, Roxanne Rubin
2010-2011: Yaqi Lan, Xuedi You, Xiaotian Zhang, Xiaorong Su
Visiting scholars:
2022-2023: Manasaporn Sukmak
2014-2015 Shin-yi Lin
2013-2014, 2017-2018 Maaria Kortesniemi
2012-2013: Yu-Chang Lo, Shin-Yu Chen
2011-2012: Michel Carretta
Summer interns:
2022: Lizbeth Franco Vargas
Research staff:
2021-2022: Gillian Cabral
2019-2021: Jesus Mendez