Affiliation: University of California Davis, Department of Nutrition and University of California Davis School of Medicine, Department of Radiology

Dr. Maria Chondronikola is a clinical and translational investigator in area of human nutrition and metabolism. Her research involves the use of both basic and clinical research tools to evaluate cellular, tissue-specific, and whole-body substrate metabolism to test physiologically important and clinically relevant hypotheses in human subjects in vivo. Her laboratory is currently focused on understanding the role of the brown adipose tissue in health and disease and the effect of targeted meal timing in metabolic function in populations at high risk for the development of metabolic disease.