Carolyn Slupsky
Professor Nutritionist in AES Professor, Department of Food Science & Technology University of Calfornia Davis
Professor Slupsky holds a joint appointment in the Departments of Nutrition and Food Science & Technology at the University of California, Davis. Her research is focused on the nexus between food, the gut microbiome, and health, with a focus on understanding how nutrition and environmental exposures shape prenatal and postnatal infant and child development. Professor Slupsky is a world-renowned leader in metabolomics and data integration, with more than 170 publications to date. She was named a UC Davis Chancellor’s Fellow in 2015, and the Kinsella Endowed Chair in Food, Nutrition, and Health from 2016 – 2022.
Seminars
Wednesday 10th June 2026
Beyond Traditional Growth-Studies: Using Developmental Biomarkers to Demonstrate Benefits & Safety
2:00 pm
- Reframe the limits of the traditional growth-studies by demonstrating why weight and length alone are insufficient to show ingredient value and how developmental biomarkers can reveal meaningful biological effects earlier
- Show how emerging microbiome, metabolic, immune, and neurodevelopmental measurements enable shorter, more informative studies that de-risk innovation
- Highlight next-generation study approaches including omics and AI that support precision nutrition claims without requiring long-term IQ or obesity outcomes
- Equip innovators with practical examples of non-growth endpoints that can demonstrate developmental benefit, support regulatory conversations, and expand the evidence toolkit for infant formula ingredients
