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Post doctoral fellow
University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus
Dr. Meghan Ruebel received a B.S. in Nutritional Sciences from University of Missouri and Masters in Exercise Science from the University of Nebraska-Kearney. During her academic training she contributed to research that examined the effects of exercise on bone, muscle, and liver health in adults with obesity as well as assessed predictors of weight loss in children. Dr. Ruebel earned a Ph.D. in Clinical and Translational Sciences from University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, where her work was centered on understating the effects of maternal obesity prior to conception on the ovary and oocyte. Following this, Dr. Ruebel was a NIH T32-funded fellow in Reproductive and Developmental Sciences Program at Michigan State University. Here, her worked focused on factors regulating egg quality across multiple species (mouse, cow, pig, and monkey) using RNA-sequencing based approaches. Dr. Ruebel was recruited to the University of Colorado-Anschutz Medical Campus as a fellow within the Section of Pediatric Nutrition. Her recent work has focused on understanding how maternal diet and body composition impact the gut microbiome, placenta, and physiological changes in offspring. Dr. Ruebel’s has received pilot grant funding during both her doctoral and post-doctoral work. A publication from her doctoral work was selected as one of the three best articles of 2017 appearing in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism and an abstract from her postdoctoral work was selected as one of the top 8 Presidential select abstracts at the American Diabetes Association Meeting. She has also received numerous travel and presentation awards throughout her career