24 faculty and 0 courses in Nutrition Sciences at University of California, Berkeley.
- Gunes Parlakgul, Assistant Professor h-index 13
Notable: “Chronic enrichment of hepatic endoplasmic reticulum–mitochondria contact leads to mitochondrial dysfunction in obesity” (2014) · 708 citations
- Alessandra Ferrari, Assistant Professor
Lipid metabolism and trafficking, intestinal physiology, metabolic disorders. Lipids are integral components of cellular membranes. Membrane lipids exhibit significant heterogeneity, with their composition and distribution differing
- Ana Paula Arruda, Assistant Professor
Metabolic adaptation in response to nutritional fluctuations is essential to maintain organismal homeostasis. Many processes supporting metabolic adaptation to transient changes in nutrient availability occur at the level of intracellular o
- Anders Näär, Professor
Gene expression, microRNAs, mammalian cell metabolism, Metabolic Diseases, obesity, Type 2 diabetes, NAFLD/NASH, cancer therapies Role: Metabolic Biology Faculty
- Andreas Stahl, Professor
For the role of lipid uptake in human diseases is liver cancer. In a collaborative effort with researchers at UCSF we are investigating the growth dependence of hepatocellular- and cholangiocarcinomas on the protein mediated uptake of exoge
- Barry Shane, Professor
Health and nutrition, nutritional sciences and toxicology, birth defects, nutritional genomics Role: Emeriti
- Danica Chen, Professor
Investigates how overnutrition and aging perturb metabolic homeostasis, leading to the development of obesity and increased risk of numerous human diseases, such as cardiovascular disease, hypertension, cancer, and type 2 diabetes. We found
- David Moore, Professor
Regulation of basic metabolism and its dysregulation in the metabolic syndrome and diabetes, as well as the impact of nuclear receptors in hepatocellular carcinoma, cholestasis, fibrosis and inflammatory bowel diseases. Education Ph
- Denis Titov, Assistant Professor
Metabolism, aging, systems biology, computational biology Role: Metabolic Biology Molecular Toxicology Faculty
- George Chang, Emeritus
- Gregory Aponte, Professor
Nutrient stimulation of the gut-brain axis: The Aponte Lab has been characterizing how dietary nutrients (before they are metabolized and enter the body and are assimilated) can be signals that cause changes in gene regulation and/or
- Hei Sook Sul, Professor
Biochemistry, molecular and cellular biology, physiology of adipogenesis, thermogenesis, lipogenesis and lipolysis Role: Metabolic Biology Endocrinology Faculty
- James Olzmann, Professor
Lipid droplet, lipotoxicity, ferroptosis, ubiquitin, proteasome, ER protein quality control, metabolism, cancer, drug resistance, metabolic disease Role: Metabolic Biology Molecular Toxicology Faculty
- Janet King, Emeritus
Es on the functions of and the dietary requirements for zinc. Early in her career, Dr. King developed the use of stable isotopes to study zinc metabolism in humans. Today, those techniques are widely used around the world to identify and tr
- Jen Chywan Wang, Professor
- Joni Nikkanen, Assistant Professor
Neurobiology, metabolism, sex differences, neuroendocrinology, innate immunity and infectious diseases Role: Metabolic Biology Faculty
- Joseph Napoli, Ruth Okey Professor of Nutrition and Toxicology
- Leonard Bjeldanes, Emeritus
- Marc Hellerstein, Professor
Plant biology, health and nutrition Role: Metabolic Biology Faculty
- Martyn Smith, Emeritus
- Ronald M Krauss, Adjunct Professor
- Sona Kang, Associate Professor
Metabolism, obesity, adipose tissue, epigenetics Role: Metabolic Biology Molecular Toxicology Endocrinology Faculty
- Susana Matias, Cooperative Extension Specialist
- Veerle Rottiers, Assistant Adjunct Professor
Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.