Nicole Roy
Nicole Roy | |
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Alma mater | Laval University |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Nutrition |
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Doctoral advisor | Jean Bernier |
Nicole Clémence Roy is a Canadian–New Zealand academic, and is a full professor at the University of Otago, specialising in nutrition and digestive health, including gastrointestinal physiology and microbiome–host interactions. She is a Fellow of Food Standards Australia New Zealand.
Academic career
[edit]Roy completed a Bachelor of Science, a Master of Science and a PhD all at Laval University. Her doctoral thesis was titled Protein Metabolism in Growing Barrows Fed Diets Adequate or Deficient in Lysine and was supervised by Jean F. Bernier.[1][2] Roy did her postdoctoral research at the Rowett Institute in Scotland.[3][4] Roy worked at AgResearch from 1998, and was appointed Principal Scientist in 2011.[4] Roy was a professor in the Liggins Institute at the University of Auckland, and since 2016 is an adjunct professor in the Riddet Institute Centre of Research Excellence at Massey University.[5] Roy joined the faculty of the Department of Nutrition at the University of Otago in 2020, and was appointed head of department in 2024.[4]
Roy's research focuses on nutrition and gut health. She was a founding member of the High Value Nutrition National Science Challenge, based at the University of Auckland, and leads the Digestive Health research programme.[6][5] Through this she is part of a team studying the effect of resistant starch additives to baby food on infant microbiomes, sleep and immune health.[7] Roy has received funding from MBIE and Marsden grants, and in 2023 Roy received a grant from the Health Research Council to investigate associations between gut health, gut microbiomes and the Aotearoa New Zealand diet.[8][5]
As a Fellow of Food Standards Australia New Zealand, Roy is one of 24 experts providing advice to the government agency.[9]
Selected works
[edit]- Dulantha Ulluwishewa; Rachel C Anderson; Warren C McNabb; Paul J Moughan; Jerry M Wells; Nicole C Roy (23 March 2011). "Regulation of tight junction permeability by intestinal bacteria and dietary components". Journal of Nutrition. 141 (5): 769–776. doi:10.3945/JN.110.135657. ISSN 0022-3166. PMID 21430248. Wikidata Q37856589.
- Rachel Anderson; Adrian L Cookson; Warren McNabb; Zaneta Park; Mark McCann; William J Kelly; Nicole Roy (9 December 2010). "Lactobacillus plantarum MB452 enhances the function of the intestinal barrier by increasing the expression levels of genes involved in tight junction formation". BMC Microbiology. 10: 316. doi:10.1186/1471-2180-10-316. ISSN 1471-2180. PMC 3004893. PMID 21143932. Wikidata Q33767034.
- Ranjita Sengupta; Eric Altermann; Rachel Anderson; Warren McNabb; Paul J Moughan; Nicole Roy (13 March 2013). "The role of cell surface architecture of lactobacilli in host-microbe interactions in the gastrointestinal tract". Mediators of Inflammation. 2013: 237921. doi:10.1155/2013/237921. ISSN 0962-9351. PMC 3610365. PMID 23576850. Wikidata Q36723135.
- Rachel Anderson; Adrian L Cookson; Warren McNabb; William J Kelly; Nicole Roy (16 June 2010). "Lactobacillus plantarum DSM 2648 is a potential probiotic that enhances intestinal barrier function". FEMS Microbiology Letters. 309 (2): 184–192. doi:10.1111/J.1574-6968.2010.02038.X. ISSN 0378-1097. PMID 20618863. Wikidata Q54382890.
- Caroline Thum; Adrian L Cookson; Don Otter; Warren McNabb; Alison J. Hodgkinson; Jolon Dyer; Nicole Roy (18 September 2012). "Can nutritional modulation of maternal intestinal microbiota influence the development of the infant gastrointestinal tract?". Journal of Nutrition. 142 (11): 1921–1928. doi:10.3945/JN.112.166231. ISSN 0022-3166. PMID 22990463. Wikidata Q38044621.
- Tracey L K Bear; Julie E Dalziel; Jane Coad; Nicole C Roy; Christine A Butts; Pramod K Gopal (9 March 2020). "The Role of the Gut Microbiota in Dietary Interventions for Depression and Anxiety". Advances in Nutrition. doi:10.1093/ADVANCES/NMAA016. ISSN 2161-8313. PMC 7360462. PMID 32149335. Wikidata Q90154043.
- Matthew Barnett; Warren McNabb; Nicole Roy; Keith B Woodford; Andrew J Clarke (20 March 2014). "Dietary A1 β-casein affects gastrointestinal transit time, dipeptidyl peptidase-4 activity, and inflammatory status relative to A2 β-casein in Wistar rats". International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition. 65 (6): 720–727. doi:10.3109/09637486.2014.898260. ISSN 0963-7486. PMID 24649921. Wikidata Q87480230.
References
[edit]- ^ Roy, Nicole C. (1991). Effects of somatostatin immunoneutralization, somatocrinin use and their combination on serum somatotropin concentrations and zootechnical performance of grain-fed calves (MSc thesis). Laval University. ISBN 978-0-315-63078-9. OCLC 1131519021.
- ^ Roy, Nicole C. (1997). Protein Metabolism in Growing Barrows Fed Diets Adequate or Deficient in Lysine (PhD thesis). Laval University. ISBN 978-0-612-25258-5.
- ^ "Foodomics Speaker Profiles". High-Value Nutrition. 27 April 2021. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
- ^ a b c Nutrition, Department of Human (7 May 2020). "Professor Nicole Roy". www.otago.ac.nz. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
- ^ a b c "Prof. Nicole Roy". riddet.ac.nz. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
- ^ "Digestive Health". High-Value Nutrition. 5 June 2019. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
- ^ "Meet The Team". thesunstudy.auckland.ac.nz. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
- ^ Board, Otago Bulletin (4 July 2023). "HRC grants $51 million to Otago researchers". www.otago.ac.nz. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
- ^ "FSANZ Fellows | Food Standards Australia New Zealand". www.foodstandards.gov.au. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
External links
[edit]- High-Value Nutrition Digestive Health Priority Research Programme, explained by Nicole Roy, July 2020, via YouTube