Carolyn Slupsky, PhD
Dr. Carolyn Slupsky is a professor at the University of California, Davis, and holds dual appointments in the Departments of Nutrition and Food Science & Technology. Dr. Slupsky actively participates in multiple graduate groups at UC Davis, including nutritional biology (GGNB), food science (FSGG) and microbiology (MGG). She is also a member of various research initiatives and centers, such as the UC Davis Milk Group, UC Davis Microbiome Research Working Group, Environmental health Sciences Center, Perinatal Origins of Disparities Center, UC Davis Coffee Center, Foods for Health Institute, Innovation Institute for Food and Health, and the Dietary Biomarker Development Consortium.
Dr. Slupsky is a world-renowned leader in metabolomics and data integration, with over 175 publications and has mentored over 40 graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and junior faculty members. She was named a UC Davis Chancellor’s Fellow in 2015, the Kinsella Endowed Chair in Food, Nutrition, and Health in 2016, and received the UC Davis Graduate Program Advising and Mentoring Award in 2023.
Dr. Slupsky’s research is at the nexus of food, nutrition, and health, where she extensively studies the impact of food on human health. From 2003-2005, she developed the core algorithm that continues to be used in the Chenomx software, which simultaneously analyzes many polar molecules from complex biological samples using NMR spectroscopy. This method (described in PMID: 16808451. doi: 10.1021/ac060209g) is now utilized by numerous laboratories worldwide. Additionally, her work extends into systems biology, where she excels in analyzing and integrating data across transcriptomics, proteomics, and microbial ecology/metagenomics with metabolomics.
Carolyn Slupsky’s full publications and recent presentations
Current lab members:
| Name | Role | Email (@ucdavis.edu) |
| Carolyn Slupsky, PhD | Principal Investigator | cslupsky |
| Laurynne Coates, PhD | Assistant Project Scientist | lnchetelat |
| Xuan He | Lab research Supervisor | xuahe |
| Darya Mishchuk, PhD | Staff Research Associate | domishchuk |
| Abigail (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 |
| Zhangyun (May) Ju | Graduate student – Graduate Group in Nutritional Biology | zju |
| Dylan Hayes | Graduate student – Food Science Graduate Group | dhayes |
| Nandini Jagarlamudi | Undergraduate intern | njagarlamudi |
| Nicholas Wu | Undergraduate intern | nchwu |
Slupsky Lab Alumni:
Postdoctoral Scholars:
Kirsten Roslund, PhD, 2023-2024
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:
Natalia Ribeiro, MS, Food Science Graduate Group, Class of 2025
Kirsten Roslund, PhD, Graduate Group in Nutritional Biology, Class of 2023
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:
2024-2025: Olivia Torres, Emily Sun
2024: Kanghee Bae
2023-2025: Laura Westphal
2023-2024: Jacqueline Mejia-Plaza
2022-2023: Yixuan Zhang, Liu Shi
2021-2023: Akanksha Pabari
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:
2025: Stine Karstenskov Østergaard, Yifan Bao
2024: Elisabeth Chasse
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:
2025: Laura Westphal
2021-2022: Gillian Cabral
2019-2021: Jesus Mendez