Lab members

Maryam Kebbe, director

Dr. Maryam Kebbe received her Bachelor of Science in Life Sciences from the University of Ottawa, and her Doctorate in Medical Sciences from the University of Alberta’s Department of Pediatrics. She completed postdoctoral training in the Medical Sciences Division at the University of Oxford first, followed by the Reproductive Endocrinology and Women's Health Laboratory at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Louisiana. Dr. Kebbe joined the Faculty of Kinesiology at the University of New Brunswick as an Assistant Professor in January 2023.

Dr. Kebbe first established her roots as a nutrition and behaviour scientist and innovated solutions within clinical settings to manage obesity, from infancy through adulthood. Today, Dr. Kebbe’s research interests are related to the interplay between nutrition, physical activity, and host physiology, specically breastmilk composition and the gut microbiome, and how these factors may prevent obesity programming in infancy through childhood.

Through a better understanding of these predictors, as well as endocrine, inflammatory, and metabolic mechanisms, Dr. Kebbe hopes to develop and implement novel, effective, and sustainable interventions to prevent obesity in infants and subsequent generations.

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If you're interested in research aimed at understanding or preventing obesity programming and metabolic disorders in infancy and childhood, contact Dr. Maryam Kebbe, lab director, maryam.kebbe@unb.ca.