Food and Nutritional Sciences

    College of Agricultural & Life Sciences

    UNIVERSITY of WISCONSIN-MADISON UW-MADISON

    Ricki Colman

    Associate Professor of Cell and Regenerative Biology, School of Medicine and Public Health

    Using nonhuman primate models to explore the impact of nutrition and metabolism on health across the aging continuum.

    rcolman@primate.wisc.edu

    (608) 263-3544

    Website

    213 Wisconsin Primate Center
    1223 Capitol Ct.
    Madison, WI 53715

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    B.A., 1991, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, Biology and Anthropology
    M.A., 1993, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, Biological Anthropology
    M.S., 1998, University of Wisconsin – Madison, WI, Biological Anthropology
    Ph.D., 1998, University of Wisconsin – Madison, WI, Biological Anthropology

    My laboratory at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center utilizes nonhuman primate models to explore the impact of nutrition and metabolism on health across the aging continuum. The bulk of my research has focused on later life time points and the ability of caloric restriction to modulate the aging process. Caloric restriction, undernutrition without malnutrition, offers a powerful way to explore mechanisms of aging because it is the only environmental intervention that repeatedly and strongly increases maximum life span and delays aging in a diverse array of experimental organisms. My lab runs one of only two ongoing, long-term studies of the effects of moderate caloric restriction on aging in rhesus monkeys. I have more recently begun to explore the impact of nutrition on early life growth and development using a small New World primate model – the common marmoset.

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