Anisha Wijeyesekera
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Associate Professor
- Co-Director of Postgraduate Research Studies
- Module Convenor for Fundamental Biochemistry in Food and Nutrition (FB1BFN)
- Member of the SCFP Diversity and Inclusion Committee.
Office
2-51Building location
Harry NurstenAreas of interest
- 1H-NMR and LC-MS based metabolic phenotyping of human and animal biological samples.
- Assessment of age and diet-associated markers of health and disease.
- Functional assessment of the microbiome, and capture of gut-host interactions.
Research centres and groups
- Food Microbial Sciences Unit (FMSU).
Academic qualifications
- PhD in Chemistry – Imperial College London, 2009
- MSc in Bioinformatics – University of Exeter, 2004
- BSc (Hons) in Biomedical Sciences – University of Durham, 2003.