Professor and Associate Head
Department of Biology & The Center for Advanced Nutrition
Utah State University
Logan, UT, USA

Timothy A. Gilbertson, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor and Associate Department Head of Biology at Utah State University. His research focuses on how the body recognizes and responds to nutrients, and how this process is tuned to the underlying nutritional needs of an organism. This has implications ranging from basic mechanisms for taste transduction and the design of taste mimetics to post-ingestive nutrient chemoreception and the control of food intake, dietary-induced obesity and diabetes.

Dr. Gilbertson has been featured on CNN, Discovery Channel, Discovery Channel-Canada, National Public Radio and insideScience (PBS), and in numerous print media including USA Today, Science News, Boston Globe, and Business Week to discuss his laboratory's research on the chemosensory cues for dietary fat and its relation to obesity. Dr. Gilbertson is the Chair of the Health and Scientific Advisory Board of the IPWR and a member of the Executive Board of Directors.