The Vacanti Lab is in the Division of Nutritional Sciences and trains students in the graduate fields of Nutrition and Biomedical Engineering at Cornell University. Our work is at the interface of molecular nutrition, metabolic engineering, systems biology, and bioinformatics.
We study metabolism on a systems level in the context of understanding fundamental metabolic regulation and adaptations accompanying the onset of chronic disease or resistance to therapy.
In addition to training our own Ph.D. students, we are committed to making the analyses of large molecular data sets a common practice in traditional approaches to studying molecular nutrition through our course in the College of Human Ecology: Big Data in Molecular Nutrition: Proteins, Transcripts, and Metabolism.