Research Team

Current Members:

 

Melanie Guirette

Nutrigenetics & Genomics of Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Induced Metabolic Disease

Ph.D. Candidate at Tufts University, Recipient of the 2023 Jean Hankin Nutritional Epidemiology Research Grant.

Nick Siegel

Graduate Research Assistant for Dietary Assessment Project (Fall 2023 – Present)

Didactic Program in Dietetics / Master of Science in Nutrition + Dietetic Internship ‘26

Shuhan Yang

Undergraduate Research Assistant for Dietary Fiber Project (Fall 2022 – Present), UROP Award Recipient Spring ’23

BS in Nutrition & Health ‘24

Varsha Krishnan 

Graduate Research Assistant (Fall 2023) 

MS in Nutrition + Dietetic Internship ’25

 

Mariana Lozano 

Graduate Research Assistant (Fall 2023) 

MS in Nutrition + Dietetic Internship ’24

 

Riya Gopal | Undergraduate Practicum Experience (2023) | BS in Health Science ’23, MPH Candidate ’24

Bella Scherer | Graduate Research Assistant (Fall 2023) | MS Nutrition ’24

Dian Fu | UROP Award Recipient (Fall 2023) | BS Nutritional Sciences ’24

Past Members

Elizabeth Crawford | Graduate Research Assistant for Dietary Fiber Project (Summer 2022 – January 2024) | DPD/MS/DI ’24

Katherine Newell | Graduate Research Assistant for Dietary Assessment Project | DPD/MS/DI ’23

Greta Schneider | Graduate Practicum Experience (May 2023 – Oct. 2023) | MPH Epidemiology & Biostatistics  ‘24

Yunkeli Lin | Undergraduate Practicum Experience (Fall 2023) | Nutrition Sciences ’24

Surui Chuai | Undergraduate Practicum Experience (Fall 2023) | BS in Nutrition & Health ’24

Zoe Habershaw | Graduate Practicum Experience (Spring 2023) | DPD/MS/DI ’25

Aileen Indra | Undergraduate Practicum Experience (Fall 2022) | BS in Nutrition & Public Health ‘24

Kirsten Bohnenberger | Graduate Research Assistant for Dietary Fiber Project (Summer 2022) | DPD/MS/DI ‘23

Xamantha Tjakra | Website Designer (Fall 2022) | BS in Health Science ‘22, MPH Candidate ‘24

Student Opportunities

For undergraduate and graduate students: The lab has a range of opportunities for students.  Please email Professor McKeown (nmkeown@bu.edu) with your CV to express your interest.

Lab Member Updates


In June 2023, Melanie Guirette presented her talk, “Cross-Sectional Associations between Sweetened Beverage Consumption and Circulating Concentrations of Branched Chain Amino Acids in Five Population-Based Cohorts” at the Metabolomics Conference in Niagara Falls, Ontario.

In July 2023, Elizabeth Zalis (Crawford) presented her poster “Achieving public health recommendations among followers of self-identified popular dietary patterns” at the Nutrition Conference (American Society for Nutrition) in Boston, MA.