jessicahegeman

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Job title: 

Scientific reseacher, Academic lecturer

Eurocaroten role: 

Management Committee

First name: 

Jessica

Last name: 

Hegeman

Short research description: 

Dr. Hegeman is scientific researcher at Human and Animal Physiology (HAP), Wageningen University, the Netherlands. HAP has extensive expertise in performing controlled dietary intervention studies to improve diet-and age-related metabolic healths problems. These dietary intervention studies are performed in humans, animals and/or cells. HAP is particularly recognized for the physiological, metabolic, functional genomic, biochemical/molecular and histological analysis of such studies. The research of Dr. Hegeman is focussed on the effects of nutritional intervention strategies on the balance of reactive oxygen species and antioxidant defence systems in situations of metabolic health and decline.

Personal webpage: 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessica-hegeman-80491523

Techniques routinely used: 

Dietary interventions in humans, animals and cells; Physiological, metabolic, functional genomic, biochemical/molecular and histological analyses

Instrumentation/Facilities: 

Indirect calorimetry (rodents), Body composition (rodents), Sea horse (cells), EVOS (cells)

Country: 

Netherlands

City: 

Wageningen

Institution: 

Wageningen University

Department: 

Human and Animal Physiology

Institution website: 

http://www.molecularphysiology.eu

Address: 

De Elst 1, PO Box 338

Zip Code: 

6700 AH

Phone: 

+31 317 484699

Matrix: 

Foods

Gender: 

Female

WG option 1: 

WG3

WG option 2: 

WG3

Scientific approach: 

Fundamental

Areas: 

Biochemistry

Biology

Health

Nutrition

Other keywords: 

Biological Actions

Functional Foods

Systems Biology

STMS hosting: 

Yes

Meetings hosting: 

Yes