Academic Minute from 5.9 – 5.13
Monday, May 9
Doug Archer – University of Florida
Total Sensory Foods
Dr. Archer was appointed Professor and Chair, Food Science and Human Nutrition Department, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, on January 1, 1994. He stepped down as Chair on January 1, 2001 to return to the faculty. He was selected to be an Associate Dean for Research, UF/IFAS in February, 2006.
Tuesday, May 10
Erin Hanlon – University of Chicago
Sleep Munchies
Erin C. Hanlon, Ph.D. is a Research Associate in the Sleep, Metabolism, and Health Center and the Department of Medicine at the University of Chicago. As a behavioral neuroscientist, she is interested in the relationship between behavior, brain mechanisms, and physiology that may impact human health. Primary research interests have included the detrimental effects of sleep loss and how sleep benefits health. In particular, she has focused on the effect of sleep restriction on brain reward and feeding systems as well as peripheral metabolic systems in both rodent and human models.
Wednesday, May 11
Gina Mohr – Colorado State University
The Crunch Effect
Dr. Gina S. Mohr is assistant professor of marketing at Colorado State University, College of Business. Gina holds a bachelor of arts in economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder (2002) and a PhD in marketing from the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado at Boulder (2009). Gina’s expertise is in consumer behavior and her research efforts focus on topics of consumer wellness.
Gina’s personal interest in health and nutrition directed her stream of research to examine how consumer health is influenced by various spheres of influence: political, motivational, and sensory. Her research in the political sphere examines how policies aimed at improving consumer health can lead to unintended, and potentially undesirable, consequences on food choice and evaluation. Research on motivational factors focuses on the product and social factors that influence a consumer’s health goals and, subsequently, food consumption behavior. Most recently, Gina’s research explores the sensory factors that affect consumer wellbeing while engaging in the food consumption experience- in terms of the choices made, quantities consumed, and emotions experienced while eating. Gina’s research appears in the Journal of Consumer Research, the Journal of Marketing, theJournal of Consumer Psychology, Health Psychology, and Food Quality and Preference.
Thursday, May 12
Vernon Barnes – Augusta University
Mindfulness Eating
Vernon A. Barnes PhD is an Assistant Professor at the Georgia Prevention Institute in the Department of Pediatrics. Over the course of his 18 year career, Dr. Barnes has participated in 14 grants totaling over $3M, of which he has been either PI or co-I. His research interests focus upon the effects of behavioral stress reduction in the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease. Dr Barnes has served on a number of committees at Augusta University, including the IRB, the MCG Admissions Committee and the Cancer Center Integrative Medicine Steering committee. He has received numerous accolades and honors, most notably the Blue Ribbon International Society of Hypertension in Blacks Award, the Society of Behavioral Medicine Complementary and Alternative Medicine Special Interest Group Investigator Research Award, and a Scholar Award from the American Psychosomatic Society. He has served as a reviewer for over 20 journals and an editor for 2. He has been the author or co-author of over 42 medical journal articles and presented at national, state and local conferences, including most recently on alternative treatments for post-traumatic stress in military populations. His findings have generated considerable interest in the popular press. He has mentored 18 graduate and medical students. Dr Barnes is a member of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, the American Psychosomatic Society, the Society of Integrative Oncology and the American Heart Association.
Friday, May 13
Jeff Brecht – University of Florida
Reducing Food Waste
My primary responsibilities involve instruction, research and extension in the area of postharvest physiology and horticulture of vegetables and fruits and administration of the UF/IFAS Center for Food Distribution & Retailing.
Instructional responsibilities include teaching a postharvest horticulture course (HOS5085) for beginning graduate students and advanced undergraduates as well as participation in graduate student training and supervision.
The responsibilities of the extension program involve demonstration research showing the effects of various postharvest procedures on maintenance of product quality, and extending postharvest information through presentations at extension and industry meetings.
