
Daniel Merenstein, MD
PresidentProfessor
Director of Research Programs
Department of Family Medicine
Georgetown University Medical Center
Building D Room 240
4000 Reservoir RD NW
Washington, DC 20007
djm23@georgetown.edu

Maria Marco, PhD
Vice PresidentProfessor
Department of Food Science and Technology
One Shields Avenue, The University of California
Davis, CA 95616
mmarco@ucdavis.edu

Seppo Salminen, PhD
Past PresidentProfessor, Director
Functional Foods Forum
University of Turku
20014 Turku, Finland
sepsal@utu.fi

Gabriel Vinderola, PhD
SecretaryAssociate Professor of Microbiology
Faculty of Chemical Engineering
National University of Litoral
Principal Researcher, CONICET
Santiago del Estero 2829
Santa Fe - 3000, Argentina
gvinde@fiq.unl.edu.ar

Daniel J. Tancredi, PhD
TreasurerProfessor
Department of Pediatrics
University of California, Davis
2516 Stockton Boulevard, Room 379
Sacramento, California, USA 95817
djtancredi@ucdavis.edu

Karen Scott, PhD
Member-At-LargeProfessor
Rowett Institute
University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen, Scotland, UK AB21 9SB
K.scott@abdn.ac.uk

Kelly Swanson, PhD
Member-At-LargeProfessor
Department of Animal Sciences and Division of Nutritional Sciences
Adjunct Professor, Department of Veterinary Clinical Medicine
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1207 West Gregory Drive, 162 Animal Sciences Laboratory
Urbana, IL, USA 61801
ksswanso@illinois.edu

Colin Hill PhD, DSc
Member-At-LargeProfessor
Microbial Food Safety
Microbiology Department
University College Cork
Cork, Ireland
c.hill@ucc.ie

Sarah Lebeer, PhD
Member-At-LargeProfessor
Microbiology and Molecular Biology
Department of Bioscience Engineering
University of Antwerp
Groenenborgerlaan 171
2020 Antwerpen
Belgium
sarah.lebeer@uantwerpen.be

Eamonn Quigley, MD
Member-At-LargeProfessor
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
The Methodist Hospital and Weill Cornell School of Medicine
6550 Fannin, Suite SM1001
Houston, Texas 77030
equigley@tmhs.org

Hania Szajewska, MD, PhD
Member-At-LargeProfessor
Department of Paediatrics
The Medical University of Warsaw
Zwirki i Wigury 63A
02-091 Warsaw, Poland
szajewska@gmail.com

Anisha Wijeyesekera, PhD
Member-At-LargeLecturer in Human Microbiome, Diet & Health, Food Microbial Sciences Unit Department of Food & Nutritional Sciences University of Reading, UK a.wijeyesekera@reading.ac.uk

Kristin Verbeke, Pharm, PhD
Member-At-LargeProfessor
Translational Research in Gastrointestinal Disorders
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Herestraat 49, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium
kristin.verbeke@kuleuven.be
Past Board Members
Robert Hutkins, PhD
University of Nebraska, USAMary Ellen Sanders, PhD
Dairy and Food Culture TechnologiesGlenn Gibson, PhD
The University of Reading, UKGregor Reid, PhD, MBA
The University of Western Ontario, CanadaTodd Klaenhammer, PhD
North Carolina State University, USAGEORGE FAHEY, PHD
University of Illinois, USAFRANCISCO GUARNER, MD, PHD
University Hospital Vall d’Hebron, SpainJULIET ANSELL, D. PHIL.
Zespri, New ZealandFredrik Bäckhed
University of Gothenburg, SwedenNATHALIE M. DELZENNE, PHD
Université Catholique de Louvain, BelgiumBRUNO POT , PHD
Institut Pasteur de Lille (IBL), FranceBOB RASTALL, PHD
University of Reading, UKIAN ROWLAND, PHD
University of Reading, UKHARSHARNJIT S. GILL, PHD
AustraliaMARCEL ROBERFROID, PHD
Professor Emeritus Université Catholique de LOUVAIN, BelgiumCRISTINE CHERBUT, PHD
National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA), FranceMichael Cabana, MD, MPH
University of California, San Francisco