2008-present Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Memorial University of Newfoundland 2002-2007 Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Memorial University of Newfoundland Canada Research Chair in Human Nutrition

1) Costs of intestinal stress and maintenance amino acid metabolism. 2) Methyl metabolism changes and nutritional costs. 3) Early nutritional insults and long term consequences on health.

Myrie SB, MacKay DS, Van Vliet BN, Bertolo RF. 2011. Early programming of adult blood pressure in the low birth weight Yucatan miniature pig is exacerbated by a post-weaning high-salt-fat-sugar diet. Submitted to Brit J Nutr (In press). McKnight LL, Myrie SB, MacKay DS, Brunton JA, Bertolo RF. 2011. Glucose tolerance is affected by visceral adiposity and gender, but not birth weight or early nutrition, in Yucatan miniature pigs. Submitted to Appl Physiol Nutr Metab (In press). Alemmari A, Miller GG, Bertolo RF, Dinesh C, Brunton JA, Arnold CJ, Zello GA. 2011. Reduced aluminum contamination decreases parenteral nutrition associated liver injury. J Pediatr Surg. (In press). Dodge ME, Bertolo RF, Brunton JA. 2011. Enteral feeding induces profound early intestinal adaptation in a neonatal piglet model of short bowel syndrome. J Parent Ent Nutr. (In press).