Lab News
Senior completes Thesis for Distinction
Congratulations to Beatriz dos Santos Bechara (Sargent ’25, B.S. Human Physiology) for completing her Senior Thesis for Distinction research with Dr McCrory entitled, “Eating Timing Variability Across BMI: A Study of Weekdays vs. Weekends” in May 2025. Plans are underway to submit her work to a scholarly journal for publication.
Undergraduate presents research at the International Conference on Diet and Activity Methods 2025 in Toronto
Congratulations to Carly Von Halle (Sargent ’25, B.S. Health Science) who presented her work at the International Conference on Diet and Activity Methods (ICDAM) in Toronto, Canada in April. Carly compared eating frequency measured by a simple questionnaire to that objectively measured when participant wore the AIM-2 wearable camera. Carly was supported by BU’s Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) in Spring 2025, and she received a Sargent Student Research Travel grant to support her travel to the meeting. Carly graduated in May 2025 and is attending graduate school.
Dr McCrory organizes and chairs symposium at international meeting
Dr McCrory organized and chaired a symposium on “Dietary Assessment and Applications in the Nutrition for Precision Health (NPH) Study” at the International Conference on Diet and Activity Methods (ICDAM) 2025 annual meeting in Toronto, Canada. She also presented, along with her colleagues from the University of Hawaii; Scripps Institution of Oceanography; Curtin University (Perth, Australia); Université Laval (Quebec, Canada); and the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada). Topic covered included dietary assessment tools and protocol in the NPH Study, timing of eating and energy intake and 24 hour glycemic patterns, and dietary intake and the microbiome.
Nutrition for Precision Health study featured on CBS Sunday Morning
Dr McCrory is part of the research team tracking dietary intake using novel, cutting-edge methods in this research featured on CBS Sunday Morning Nov 24, 2024. Nutrition for Precision Health, powered by the All of Us Research Program, is breaking new ground in nutrition research. This NIH-led study is exploring how and why our bodies respond differently to food, thanks to cutting-edge methods and the participation of diverse volunteers!
🎥 Watch the segment now: https://allof-us.org/3UY1zkm
Student presents research at UROP Symposium 2024
Undergraduate student Beatriz Dos Santos Bechara (Sargent ’25, B.S. Human Physiology) presented her research on the timing of eating across the week at the Fall 2024 Boston University Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Symposium. Beatriz was awarded the Student Research Award to conduct this research throughout the summer 2024. She is extending the research as a Sargent Senior Thesis for Distinction.
Graduate and undergraduate students present research at Nutrition 2024 in Chicago
Congratulations to Helena Ge (Sargent ’25, M.S./DPD/DI) and Sorochi Anyaibe (Sargent ’25, B.S. Health Science) whose who presented their research on July 1, 2024 at Nutrition 2024 - American Society for Nutrition.
Ms Ge presented preliminary results of her study on the safety, feasibility, and compliance with wearing the AIM-2 for assessing dietary intake in patients with chronic kidney disease. The study is a collaboration with Dr Vipul Chitalia at Boston Medical Center and Edward Sazonov from the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. Several Eating Patterns and Metabolism Lab members assisted with the study including Sorochi Anyaibe (Sargent ’25, B.S. Health Science), Yunkeli Lin (Sargent ’24, B.S. Nutrition/Dietetics), Manan Patel (Sargent ’24, B.S. Human Physiology; Sargent ’25 M.S. Human Physiology), and Tianran Ye (Sargent ’22, B.S. Nutrition/Dietetics; Sargent ’24, M.S./DPD) coauthored the abstract.
Ms Anyaibe presented some results of her study investigating the timing of eating and energy intake in urban and rural households in Ghana which were assessed using images time stamps from the AIM-2, a wearable camera. That study was part of a larger research project funded by the Bill&Melinda Gates Foundation and with research collaborators from the University of Georgia, the University of Alabama, the University of Pittsburgh, Baylor College of Medicine, University College London, and the University of Ghana.
Graduate and undergraduate students to present research at Nutrition 2024 in Chicago.
Congratulations to Helena Ge (Sargent ’25, M.S./DPD/DI) and Sorochi Anyaibe (Sargent ’25, B.S. Health Science) whose abstract submissions on their research with Dr McCrory to Nutrition 2024 were accepted. The meeting takes place in June/July 2024.
Ms Ge will be presenting some results of her study on the safety, feasibility, and compliance with wearing the AIM-2 for assessing dietary intake in patients with chronic kidney disease. The study was a collaboration with Dr Vipul Chitalia at Boston Medical Center and Edward Sazonov from the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. Several Eating Patterns and Metabolism Lab members assisted with the study including Sorochi Anyaibe, Yunkeli Lin (Sargent ’24, B.S. Nutrition/Dietetics), Manan Patel (Sargent ’24, B.S. Human Physiology), and Tianran Ye (Sargent ’22, B.S. Nutrition/Dietetics; Sargent ’24, M.S./DPD) and coauthored the abstract.
Ms Anyaibe will be presenting some results of her study investigating the timing of eating and energy intake in urban and rural households in Ghana which were assessed using images time stamps from the AIM-2, a wearable camera. That study was part of a larger research project funded by the Bill&Melinda Gates Foundation and with research collaborators from the University of Georgia, the University of Alabama, the University of Pittsburgh, Baylor College of Medicine, University College London, and the University of Ghana.
Read about ongoing and upcoming research by Dr McCrory and her colleagues in a recent news article published on the University of Colorado, Anschutz Department of Medicine’s web site.
Read about research Dr McCrory and her colleagues Janine Higgins (University of Colorado, Anschutz), Edward Sazonov (University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa), and Graham Thomas (Miriam Hospital in Rhode Island) are conducting in a recent news article published on April 4, 2024, on the University of Colorado, Anschutz Department of Medicine’s web site: Want to Lose Weight? An Eyeglass Device Can Help Track Your Calories (cuanschutz.edu)
Student Presents Research at UROP Symposium 2023
Undergraduate student Sorochi Anyiabe (Sargent ’25, B.S. Health Sciences) presented her research on the timing of eating in urban and rural households in Ghana at the Fall 2023 Boston University Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Symposium. Sorochi was awarded the Student Research Award to conduct this research throughout the summer and Fall 2023.
Graduate and Undergraduate Students Present their Research at Nutrition 2023
Congratulations to Tianran Ye (Sargent ’22, B.S. Nutrition/Dietetics; Sargent ’24, M.S./DPD) and Yunkeli Lin (Sargent ’24, B.S. Nutrition/Dietetics) who each presented posters on their research with Dr McCrory at Nutrition 2023 in Boston, MA in July. Ms. Ye presented the results of her study on energy intake variation on weekdays and weekends, and Ms. Lin presented her findings on relationships of fruit and vegetable intake with serum and red blood cell carotenoids.
