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Dr. Amanda MacFarlane is an Adjunct Research Professor in the Department of Biology at Carleton University. Her research focuses on folate-mediated one-carbon metabolism and its implications for health and disease. She investigates the biochemical, genetic, and epigenetic mechanisms underlying folate-dependent diseases, with a particular emphasis on maternal and paternal nutrition and its effects on fertility and the health of offspring. Dr. MacFarlane actively engages with policy work related to food fortification and dietary supplement use, contributing to the establishment of international dietary reference intakes. Her work utilizes nationally-representative population health data to assess folate and B vitamin status across Canada and to identify determinants of nutritional status. She has published extensively in the area of maternal nutrition and its impact on genetic and epigenetic health outcomes.
Carleton University • Ottawa, ON, Canada
Teaching and research in the Department of Biology, focusing on folate-mediated metabolism.
Includes MEng and MASc options.