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Patricia Wolf is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Nutrition Science at Purdue University. She completed her PhD in Nutritional Sciences, focusing on microbial sulfur metabolism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. During her graduate training, she also completed the Didactic Program in Dietetics and became a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist. Dr. Wolf was a postdoctoral fellow in the Cancer Education Career Development Program (NCI T32) at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research investigates microbial mechanisms of cancer and health disparities related to inequitable food access and quality. Using techniques from molecular microbiology and novel enzyme characterization, she aims to understand the metabolic capacity of the human gut microbiome. Her expertise in nutrition and dietetics examines how dietary intake influences shifts in microbial ecology and the formation of deleterious microbial metabolites that contribute to cancer risk. Recognizing that dietary behaviors are shaped by social and structural environments, her future work will explore the relationships between neighborhood food environments and microbial metabolism to mitigate the inequitable burden of cancer on vulnerable groups.
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