Dr. Colin D. Kay is a nutritional biochemist and associate professor of translational nutrition. His research is centered around establishing the metabolism of dietary phytochemicals and the potential impact this has on their biological activity, particularly concerning disorders and diseases associated with aging. His core research is focused on the development of broad-spectrum quantitative MS/MS methodologies for establishing the contribution of phytochemical metabolites to the human exposome. Before joining the ACNC, Dr. Kay was the David H. Murdock Distinguished Professor of Translational Nutrition in the Department of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences and at NC State’s Plants for Human Health Research Institute. Prior to North Carolina State University, Dr. Kay served on the faculty of Department of Nutrition, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. He obtained a Ph.D. in Nutritional Biochemistry at the University of Guelph, Canada and received Postdoctoral training in Human nutrition and vascular interventions at Pennsylvania State University.
Dr. Kyle Baumbauer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cell Biology and Physiology and the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Kansas Medical Center. He received his Ph.D. from Kent State University in Experimental Psychology in 2005. Dr. Baumbauer was then a Postdoctoral Fellow at Texas A&M University (Behavioral and Cellular Neuroscience) until 2011, followed by a second postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh Medical School in the Pittsburgh Center for Pain Research (Neurobiology). In 2014, Dr. Baumbauer moved to the University of Connecticut, where he was an Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing, until 2019 when he joined the faculty at KUMC. Dr. Baumbauer is a past Rita Allen Foundation Pain Fellow, and his work has been generously funded by the Rita Allen Foundation, the Craig H. Neilsen Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.
Sree V. Chintapalli is an Assistant Professor in Developmental Nutrition at the Department of Pediatrics, UAMS. Before joining ACNC as a visiting scientist in May 2015, Dr. Chintapalli worked as a postdoctoral computational biologist at both Pennsylvania State University and University of California, Davis. He obtained a B.S. in Biochemistry at Andhra University, India, an M.S. in Biochemistry at Andhra University, India, and a Ph.D. in Bioinformatics at The University of Essex, U.K. Our laboratory leverages a wide range study that includes structural, functional, and evolutionary biology using in silico, biochemical and biophysical methods. We collaborate extensively with multidisciplinary groups and engages in performing various bioinformatics analysis on metabolomics, RNA-Seq data, microbial and metagenomics analysis.
