Dr Juliet Ansell

Research

Food and nutrition research which focuses on human digestive health using in vitro and animal models as well as human clinical trials. In particular I am interested in the interactions between food and host and the role that microbes play in biochemical and physiological development and maintenance of a healthy, large bowel.

Awards

Royal Society of New Zealand Bilateral Research Activities Project (BRAP) multi-year grant

Selected publications

Munday K & Sutherland J. (2009) “The influence of timing of the acquisition of commensal gut microbes on the development of food allergy and atopic disease” Accepted Food and Agricultural Immunology.

Rosendale D, Maddox I, Miles M, Rodier M, Skinner M & Sutherland J. (2008) High-throughput microbial bioassays to screen potential New Zealand functional food ingredients intended to manage the growth of probiotic and pathogenic gut bacteria. International Journal of Food Science and Technology, 43(12): 2257-2267

Sutherland J, Miles MC, Hedderley D, Li J, Devoy S, Sutton K & Lauren D (2009) In vitro effects of food components on selected probiotic and pathogenic bacteria. International Journal of Food Science and Nutrition, 60(8): 717-727.