Professor Baukje de Roos | The University of Aberdeen

Professor Baukje de Roos

MSc PhD

Personal Chair

Accepting PhDs

About

Email Address: b.deroos@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone Number: +44 (0)1224 438636
Office Address: Rowett Institute, University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen AB25 2ZD
School/Department: School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition

Biography

Baukje de Roos is an internationally recognised nutrition scientist having >25 years of experience in the design and delivery of dietary intervention studies to assess how nutrients, foods and diets affect cardiovascular health outcomes and resilience to disease development. Earlier leading work in the field of proteomics and biomarker discovery led to funding for several European research projects, a BBSRC Case studentship and an invitation to join an International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) task force to establish the usefulness of proteomics for efficacy demonstration of dietary bioactives. Current work focusses on developing and implementing novel and state-of-the-art interdisciplinary precision and personalised nutrition approaches to improve population and individual health, as well as identifying responders and non-responders to interventions, supported by RCUK and industry funding as well as several international research collaborations. Her Scottish Government RESAS-funded work focusses on exploratory modelling of relationships between ‘healthiness’, ‘carbon footprint’, ‘level of processing’ and ‘cost’ of UK diets to identify the most important potential food switches in real-time UK diets, work which is now being developed into a ‘foodswap’ app. Her expertise in the area of diet and health has formed the basis of contracts and consultancies with large food companies (Unilever, By-Health, Stephan Nutrition, Cognis, MacPhie of Glenbervie, Provexis, Kelloggs), food levy boards (Seafish), the food and drink support sector (Food and Drink Innovation Service, Scotland Food & Drink), and national UK television (Channel 4’s Food Hospital and Superfoods series).

Qualifications

MSc Human Nutrition
1995 - Wageningen University, the Netherlands
PhD Human Nutrition
2000 - Wageningen University, the Netherlands

Memberships and Affiliations

Internal Memberships: Deputy Director, the Rowett Institute, School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition

Member of the Senior Management Team of the School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition, University of Aberdeen.

Chair of the Human Studies Management Committee at the Rowett Institute.
External Memberships: Jan 2021 - : Editorial Board Member for the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Sep 2014 – Jan 2020: Director NuGO (European Nutrigenomics Organisation)

Research

Research Overview

Clinical and dietary intervention trials assessing how diets, foods and nutrients affect disease risk and resilience to disease development
Personalised and precision nutrition and biomarker discovery
Modelling healthy, sustainable and affordable diets
Food systems and human health outcomes, especially in relation to sea food consumption.

Research Areas

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I am currently accepting PhDs in Nutrition and Health.

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Nutrition and Health

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Current Research

Seafood and human health

Investigating the effects of traditional versus sustainable feeding regimes of farmed salmon on heart health, micronutrient status, inflammation, oxidative stress and gut health in the Scottish population (Scottish Government Rural and Environment Science and Analytical Services)
Development of a metric for assessing the impacts on nutrition and health of agroecosystems producing farmed seafood (Immana)
Strategies to balance enhanced fish consumption with sustainable fish production (BBSRC)

Modelling healthy, sustainable and affordable diets

Modelling foods/drinks that drive healthiness, carbon footprint and costs within UK diets to identify ‘food switches’ in real-time UK diets (Scottish Government Rural and Environment Science and Analytical Services)

Precision nutrition

Modelling individual responses to healthier diets and new ways to quantify the importance of physiology and behaviour for successful dietary changes (Unilever, BBSRC)
Individual efficacy of anthocyanins in blueberries to affect metabolic health (ByHealth)
Inter-individual variation in response to consumption of plant food bioactives and determinants involved (EU COST Action POSTIVe)

Clinical and dietary intervention trials

Development of nutritional and exercise strategies to increase resilience and improve health outcomes (BBSRC)

Collaborations

Anne Wanders, Liesbeth Zandstra, Peter Zock (Unilever, the Netherlands)
Paul Fernandes (School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen)
Lorraine Brennan (UCD, Ireland)
Alan Sneddon (Rowett, University of Aberdeen)
Dave Little, Frances Murray, Alexandra Pounds (University of Stirling)
Nanna Roos (University of Copenhagen)
Eleanor Grieve (University of Glasgow)
Gulshan Ara, Santhia Ireen, Tahmeed Ahmed (icddr,b, Bangladesh)
Abdullah-Al Mamun (Noakhali Science and Technology University, Bangladesh)
Christine Morand, Claudine Manach (Université Clermont Auvergne, INRA, France)
Felix Zhang, Jiehua Chen (ByHealth, China)
Niamh O'Kennedy (SIS, UK)
Dr Jetty Lee, Hong Kong University, China
Dr Vasanthi Siruguri / Dr Radhika Madhari, National Institute of Nutrition, India
Prof Marianne Geleijnse, Wageningen University, the Netherlands
Prof Anne-Marie Minihane, University of East Anglia, UK
Prof Zoltan Takats, Imperial College London

Supervision

My current supervision areas are: Nutrition and Health.

2018-2022: supervision of Tilly Potter (BBSRC DTP / Unilever PhD studentship)

2016-2021: co-supervision of Anneli Lofstedt (EASTBIO PhD studentship)

2016-2020: supervision of Teresa Grohmann (By Health-funded PhD studentship)

2015-2018: supervision of Khairun Nafisa (Malaysian Government PhD studentship)

2013-2017: supervision of Dom Partridge (BBSRC Case/SiS PhD studentship)

2011-2014: supervision of Felix Zhang (Industrial PhD studentship)

2009-2012: supervision of Eva-Maria Bachmair (Industrial PhD studentship)

2008-2011: co-supervision of Lisa Michel (BHF PhD studentship)

2007-2011: supervision of Luisa Ostertag (Rowett/IFR PhD studentship)

2007-2009: co-supervision of Vanessa Rungapamestry (Post-doctoral student from UCD)

2007-2009: supervision of Guillermo Rodriguez Guttierez (Post-doctoral fellow)

2007-2008: supervision of Katie Crosley (Post-doctoral fellow on NuGO project)

2005-2008: supervision of Yiannis Mavrommatis (Rowett PhD-studentship)

2005-2006: supervision of Jose Miguel Arbones-Mainar (Post-doctoral fellow)

Funding and Grants

2019-2023. By-Health, Dupont, AkerBiomarine and Indena. An open label parallel randomised trial to assess the effects of a MOnitored PErsonalised Diet and Supplement intervention on the remission of metabolic syndrome (MOPEDS). £174,122

2020-2021. UKIERI. UKIERI Mobility Programme: Study in India. £33,680

2020-2021. GCRF – SFC. Sustainable Intensification : Integrating Aquaculture into Food Systems. £9,800

2019-2020. MRC Development Award. Mycotoxin exposure, intestinal inflammation and childhood stunting in India. £23,915

2019-2023. MRC UK Consortium for MetAbolic Phenotyping (MAP UK). £2,138,277

2018-2022. BBSRC DTP / Unilever. Modelling individual responses to healthier diets and new ways to quantify the importance of physiology and behaviour for successful dietary changes. £144K

2017. BBSRC GCRF IAA. Introduction of health technologies to monitor dietary intake in relation to metabolic health in India. £11K

2016-2020. EASTBIO. Strategies to balance enhanced fish consumption with sustainable fish production. £70K

2016-2018. Immana-DFID Aquatic Food for Health and Nutrition (AQN): A metric for assessing the impacts on nutrition and health of agroecosystems producing farmed seafood. £250K

2016-2021. Scottish Government (part of Rowett rolling grant). ‘(Shell)fish and human health’. ~£1M

2016-2020. By Health, China. Efficacy of anthocyanins in blueberries to affect metabolic health in a Chinese/Asian population living in China and in the UK. £90K

Teaching

Teaching Responsibilities

In the past years I have led and facilitated the successful Rowett expansion in Nutrition postgraduate teaching (PGT), from the delivery of a 1-year MSc Human Nutrition programme (since 1984) to that of a portfolio of face-to-face and new on-line MSc programmes, courses, a Massive Open Online course (MOOC) and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) (‘on demand’) offerings.

I have developed a Rowett teaching strategy that ensures that we capitalise on recent successes to ensure that we can sustain and further develop the growth of our nutrition PGT and CPD nutrition programmes and courses. I pro-actively participate in the development and delivery of on-campus lectures (Foundation of Nutrition, Nutrition & Health, Molecular Nutrition and Clinical Nutrition courses) and on-line content and discussion forums (Fundamentals of Human Nutrition and Metabolism, Clinical Nutrition for Disease Prevention, Nutrition and Health through the Life Stages courses, Food Choice and Behaviour CPD, Nutrition and Wellbeing MOOC).

Publications

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Research Overview

Research Areas

Accepting PhDs

Nutrition and Health

Current Research

Collaborations

Supervision

Funding and Grants

Teaching Responsibilities

Seafood supply mapping reveals production and consumption mismatches and large dietary nutrient losses through exports in the United Kingdom

Novel study designs and modelling approaches in nutrition research: application of advanced statistical modelling approaches and N-of-1 study designs

What Environmental Metrics Are Used in Scientific Research to Estimate the Impact of Human Diets?

Assessing Scotland's self-sufficiency of major food commodities

How good are we at predicting the individual response to personalized diets?

An analysis of the household demand for fish and seafood in Great Britain

Assessing Scotland’s self-sufficiency of major food commodities

Wild fish consumption can balance nutrient retention in farmed fish

Fish as friends and food: The significance of Frank Buckland's observations and ideas for current fish consumption patterns

Consumption of foods with the highest nutritional quality, and the lowest GHGE and price, differs between socioeconomic groups in the UK population

Integrated aquaculture-agriculture production supports food and nutrition security in Bangladesh

An analysis of household demand for fish in Scotland

Role of metabolomics in the delivery of precision nutrition

A grape seed and bilberry extract reduces blood pressure in individuals at risk of developing type 2 diabetes: the PRECISE study, a double-blind placebo-controlled cross-over intervention study

Factors affecting the micronutrient status of adolescent girls living in complex agro-aquatic ecological zones of Bangladesh

Ready meals, especially those that are animal-based and cooked in an oven, have lower nutritional quality, higher greenhouse gas emissions and are more expensive than equivalent home-cooked meals

Adolescent girls in aquaculture ecozones at risk of nutrient deficiency in Bangladesh development and validation of an integrated metric

Meeting report: plant-rich dietary patterns and health

Models predict change in plasma triglyceride concentrations and long-chain n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid proportions in healthy participants after fish oil intervention

Food-Level Analysis to Identify Dietary Choices With the Highest Nutritional Quality and Lowest Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Price

Nutritional Quality, Environmental Impact and Cost of Ultra-Processed Foods: A UK Food-Based Analysis

Less than half of the European dietary recommendations for fish consumption are satisfied by national seafood supplies

Export-Driven, Extensive Coastal Aquaculture Can Benefit Nutritionally Vulnerable People

Diet, blood pressure, and heart disease - precision nutrition approaches to understand response to diet and predict disease risk

The nutritional and cardiovascular health benefits of rapeseed oil-fed farmed salmon in humans are not decreased compared with those of traditionally farmed salmon: a randomized controlled trial

Efficacy of Bilberry and Grape Seed Extract Supplement Interventions to Improve Glucose and Cholesterol Metabolism and Blood Pressure in Different Populations: A Systematic Review of the Literature

Perspective: Application of N-of-1 methods in personalized nutrition research

Nutrigenomics: lessons learned and future perspectives

Linkages of agroecosystems producing farmed seafood on food security, nutritional status and adolescent health in Bangladesh

Why interindividual variation in response to consumption of plant food bioactives matters for future personalised nutrition

Inter-individual Variation in Cancer and Cardiometabolic Health Outcomes in Response to Coffee Consumption: a Critical Review

Factors influencing the cardiometabolic response to (poly)phenols and phytosterols: a review of the COST Action POSITIVe activities

Future prospects for dissecting inter-individual variability in the absorption, distribution and elimination of plant bioactives of relevance for cardiometabolic endpoints

Linking agroecosystems producing farmed seafood with food security and health status to better address the nutritional challenges in Bangladesh

Targeting the delivery of dietary plant bioactives to those who would benefit most: from science to practical applications

Selenium and sulphur derivatives of hydroxytyrosol: inhibition of lipid peroxidation in liver microsomes of vitamin E-deficient rats

Effect of nonmeat, high-protein supplementation on quality of life and clinical outcomes in older residents of care homes: a systematic review and meta-analysis

SerpinA3N is a novel hypothalamic gene upregulated by a high-fat diet and leptin in mice

Role of protein in healthy ageing

Personalised Interventions - A Precision Approach for the Next Generation of Dietary Intervention Studies

The potential impact of compositional changes in farmed fish on its health-giving properties: is it time to reconsider current dietary recommendations?

Addressing the inter-individual variation in response to consumption of plant food bioactives: Towards a better understanding of their role in healthy ageing and cardiometabolic risk reduction

An extra virgin olive oil-rich diet intervention ameliorates the non-alcoholic steatohepatitis induced by a high-fat "Western type" diet in mice

Availability and dose response of phytophenols from a wheat bran-rich cereal product in healthy human volunteers

Differences in expenditure and amounts of fresh foods, fruits & vegetables and fish purchased in urban and rural Scotland

Acute Consumption of Flavan-3-ol-Enriched Dark Chocolate Affects Human Endogenous Metabolism

The colonic metabolites dihydrocaffeic acid and dihydroferulic acid are more effective inhibitors of in vitro platelet activation than their phenolic precursors

Is life longer with a box of chocolates?

Inhibitory and synergistic effects of natural olive phenols on human platelet aggregation and lipid peroxidation of microsomes from vitamin E-deficient rats

Role of dietary pro-oxidants in the maintenance of health and resilience to oxidative stress

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