Title: Associate Professor
Translational Nutrition and Food Sciences
Department of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences
Education:
Ph.D. Nutritional Biochemistry, University of Guelph, Canada
M.S. Human Biology and Nutritional Science, University of Guelph, Canada
B.S. Biological Sciences, University of Guelph, Canada
Campus Address:
600 Laureate Way
Kannapolis, NC 28081
Phone: 704-250-5452
Lab Personnel:
Preeti Chandra, Postdoctoral Research Scholar
Atul Rathore, Postdoctoral Research Scholar
Jessica Everhart, Research Support Technician
Harry Schulz, Laboratory Manager Technician
Monique Carvalho de Santana, Graduate Student
Dr. Colin 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 with respect to disorders and diseases associated with aging. His research core is focused on the development of targeted methodologies for the identification of microbial-derived biosignatures of polyphenol consumption. This core is supported by a program of human clinical research, involving pharmacokinetic analysis and screening of vascular and immune activity.
Publications
- Influence of Ingesting a Flavonoid-Rich Supplement on the Metabolome and Concentration of Urine Phenolics in Overweight/Obese Women, 2017
- Signatures of anthocyanin metabolites identified in humans inhibit biomarkers of vascular inflammation in human endothelial cells, 2017
- Influence of Ingesting a Flavonoid-Rich Supplement On the Human Metabolome and Concentration of Urine Phenolics, 2017
- Anthocyanins and Flavanones Are More Bioavailable than Previously Perceived: A Review of Recent Evidence, 2017
- Common Phenolic Metabolites of Flavonoids, but Not Their Unmetabolized Precursors, Reduce the Secretion of Vascular Cellular Adhesion Molecules by Human Endothelial Cells1,2,3, 2016
- Acute benefits of the microbial-derived isoflavone metabolite equol on arterial stiffness in men prospectively recruited according to equol producer phenotype: a double-blind randomized controlled trial1,2, 2016