Professor, Associate Dir of the Nutrition Program
Arizona State University (ASU)Celiac Disease, Diet, Gluten, Health, Nutrition, Obesity
Johnston is Professor and Associate Director of the Nutrition Program in the School of Nutrition and Health Promotion at Arizona State University. She chairs the Institutional Review Board at ASU which oversees human subject research at the university.
Assistant Professor
College of Applied Health Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignDiet, Exercise, exercise and aging, Gut Bacteria
Dr. Allen received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Exercise Physiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his PhD in Kinesiology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Allen followed his PhD by completing a 3-year postdoctoral program in microbiology at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. Dr. Allen’s research program concentrates on specific environmental interventions and conditions— 1. Exercise 2. Psychological Stress and 3. Diet—that influence gut microbial communities (the gut microbiota) during both homeostatic and pathological disease states. Ultimately, Dr. Allen’s lab is aiming to provide a new perspective into how environmental conditions interact to modify the gut microbiota, with the ultimate goal of leveraging this knowledge to improve human health.