Dr. Yujiao Zu currently serves as a Research Assistant Professor of Nutritional Sciences at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA. She joined the Nutrigenomics, Inflammation & Obesity Research (NIOR) Lab in the Department of Nutritional Sciences in 2020. She received her BS in Biological Engineering and MS in Food Sciences from Tianjin University of Science and Technology in China, and her PhD and two-year post-doctoral training in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at Texas Tech University. Dr. Zu has published more than ten peer-reviewed research articles in nanotechnology, obesity, and cardiovascular disease. She has many innovative research experiences and entrepreneurial activities in the interaction between nutrients and obesity. She has received an NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps™) fund as an entrepreneurial lead and was a co-inventor on an international patent (PCT/US19/19036) of an anti-obesity product. Dr. Zu conducts research in nutrition and chronic diseases. Her research is focused on investigating interactions and underlying mechanisms between dietary components and obesity-associated disorders, especially insulin resistance and cardiovascular disease. Currently, she is working on an NIH-funded (PI: Moustaid-Moussa) project to investigate responsible mechanisms of omega-3 fatty acids and temperature effects on subcutaneous adipose tissue browning independent of uncoupling protein 1.