Current Postdoctoral Researchers
Aysegul (Aysha) Baltaci
balta026@umn.edu
she/her
Program: MnOPT T32
Research Area: Home food inventory (HIF) project
Tenzin Namdul
namdu003@umn.edu
he/him
Program: TRACT TL1
Research Area: Meditation, cognitive resilience, and its impact on Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias
Vivienne Hazzard
vhazzard@umn.edu
she/her
Program: Eating Disorders T32
Research Area: Eating disorders prevention
Bree Abernathy
abern041@umn.edu
she/her
Program: MnOPT T32
Research Area: Lipid droplet metabolism, refeeding, aging (mice/cells)
Patrick Brady
bradyp@umn.edu
he/him
Program: MnOPT T32
Research Area: Food insecurity, healthy eating, and social safety nets
Emily Nagel
nagel127@umn.edu
she/her
Program: MnOPT T32
Research Area: Maternal diet and infant growth; stress and lactation, human milk bioactive components
Junia N de Brito
nogue013@umn.edu
she/her
Program: MnOPT T32
Research Area: Eating, physical activity and sedentary behaviors; mental health; weight-related cardiometabolic disease risk; health disparities; behavioral interventions
Sarah Espinoza
espin131@umn.edu
she/her
Program: IRT-CAPC in DOGPAH
Research Area: Physical activity and health, psychological development, social and environmental supports for physical activity, sports and school and community-based activity programs
DJ McDonough
mcdo0785@umn.edu
he/him
Program: CVD T32
Research Area: Behavioral (eg, physical inactivity, dietary intake) and environmental (eg, grey vs. green spaces) risk factors for CVD; relationship between type 2 diabetes and CVD; novel intermediates between the above exposures and cardiometabolic diseases (eg, human gut microbiome)
Brittanny Polanka
polan037@d.umn.edu
she/her
Program: CVD T32
Research Area: Depression, sleep, and cardiometabolic disease risk
Brian Steffen
Program: CVD T32
Research Area: Proteomics and genetics of CVD outcomes
Yuni Choi
choi0518@umn.edu
she/her
Program: Postdoc Scholar
Research Area: Dietary pattern and chronic disease prevention, human milk bioatives, human gut microbiome
Sarah Burnette
james490@umn.edu
she/her
Program: Population Health T32
Research Area: Life course health disparities
Blair Burnette
burne339@umn.edu
she/her
Program: REACH T32
Research Area: Weight stigma, intuitive eating, body image, eating disorder prevention and treatment
Hannah Cory
cory0025@umn.edu
she/her
Program: REACH T32/PPFP
Research Area: Discrimination and chronic disease risk in young people
Eydie Kramer-Kostecka
krame640@umn.edu
she/her
Program: REACH T32
Research Area: Physical activity interventions for underserved youth and families; community health promotion; health and exercise psychology
Samantha Gailey
gaile009@umn.edu
she/her
Program: MN Population Health T32
Research Area: Neighborhoods and health, maternal and perinatal health, racial disparities
Sarah James
james490@umn.edu
she/her
Program: Population Health T32 (MPC)
Research Area: Life course health disparities
Anna Hing
hing0013@umn.edu
she/her
Program: HPM/Center for Antiracism Research for Health Equity
Research Area: Structural racism, voter suppression, maternal/infant health, racial disparities
Anna Hochgraf
ahochgra@umn.edu
she/her
Program: REACH T32
Hannah MacDougall
macdo327@umn.edu
she/her
Program: HPM/Rural Health Research Center
Research Area: Rural Health Equity, social determinants of health, nonprofit hospital community benefits, Medicaid policy
Kelsey Johnson
wang5694@umn.edu
she/her
Program: Postdoc Fellow in Genetics, Cell Biology and Development (CBS)
Research Area: Genetics and genomics of human milk
Wendy Wang
kej@umn.edu
she/her
Program: CVD T32