Chelsea M. Garcia, M.S., B.S. (she/her/hers)

PhD Candidate
University of Connecticut
VERNON ROCKVILLE, Connecticut, United States

Chelsea Garcia is a third-year Ph.D. student at the University of Connecticut in the Department of Nutritional Sciences, where she received her Bachelor of Science. While at UConn for her undergraduate degree, she was a McNair Fellow, Bridging the Gap Fellow, McNair Scholar, and University Scholar. She has been working in Dr. Christopher Blesso's laboratory since 2017 and has been a co-author on six peer-reviewed research articles and two first-author publications. As a graduate student, she received the CAHNR Diversity Enhancing Graduate Assistantship and was selected as a finalist for the Emerging Leaders in Nutrition Science Abstract Recognition Award Program. Her research focuses on the effects of bioactive lipids on inflammation in chronic diseases.

Presentation(s):

• (PTFS04-02-25) Egg Sphingomyelin Supplementation Attenuates Early-Stage Colitis and Modulates Gut-Liver Inflammatory Responses in a High-Fat Diet/DSS Mouse Model

  Sunday, June 1, 2025
  10:04 AM – 10:08 AM ET

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