Chrissa Petersen, PhD, RDN, CD

Assistant Professor

PhD, University of Utah

MS, University of Utah

BS, University of Utah

Courses Taught

Capstone Project
Current Topics in Nutrition
Nutrition Assessment and Instruction
Nutrition Epidemiology
Nutrition for Health Professionals
Medical Nutrition Therapy

Research Interests

Plant nutrients and their effect on cardiovascular diseases; intestinal microbiome; and metabolomics: What metabolites are available as a result of consuming plant foods; How the available metabolites affect cardiovascular diseases; How diet type affects available metabolites; the effect of intestinal microbial communities on available metabolites.

Scholarship

Babu AKS, Petersen C, et al. Gut Microbiota depletion using antibiotics to investigate diet‐derived microbial metabolites: An efficient strategy. Molecular Nutrition & Food Research. 2023: 2300386.

Babu AKS, Petersen C, et al. Dose-and time-dependent effect of dietary blueberries on diabetic vasculature is correlated with gut microbial signature. Antioxidants. 2023.

Miller JC, Satheesh Babu AK, Petersen C, et al. Gut microbes are associated with the vascular beneficial effects of dietary strawberry on metabolic syndrome-induced vascular inflammation. Mol Nutr Food Res. 2022 Nov;66(22):e2200112. 

Petersen C, et al. Dietary Blueberries Improve Vascular Inflammation and Alter the Composition of the Gut Microbiome in Aged Mice. The FASEB Journal 2022;36.

Petersen C, Bharat D, Wankhade UD, et al. Dietary blueberry ameliorates vascular complications in diabetic mice possibly through NOX4 and modulates composition and functional diversity of but microbes. Mol Nutr Food Res. 2022 Apr;66(8):e2100784.

Service

Dietary Advisory Committee, 2023-present