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Ricki Colman is an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison's Comprehensive Diabetes Center. Her laboratory focuses on utilizing nonhuman primate models to explore the impact of nutrition on metabolism and the health-aging continuum. She has developed standardized techniques for fully elucidating the aging metabolic function in nonhuman primates, including detailed assessments of body composition, glucoregulatory function, energy expenditure, physical activity, frailty, inflammation, and age-related changes in reproductive hormones. Her research is particularly focused on the lifetime points at which caloric restriction can modulate the aging process, beginning with an exploration of the impact of nutrition during early life on growth and development. Colman's work is built on the driving hypothesis that caloric restriction induces an altered state of energy metabolism that promotes health and longevity in primates, particularly through her primary research involving macaques and, more recently, common marmosets to develop shorter-lived primate aging models.
Department: Department of Computer Sciences