Yifei Kang, PhD (she/her/hers)

Visiting Research Specialist in Life Sciences (Bioinformatics)
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, Illinois, United States

Yifei, a committed Research Specialist in Life Sciences, currently holds a position at the esteemed Biotechnology Center in UIUC. Her expertise lies in sequencing data processing, bioinformatics, and statistical analysis. Yifei's educational background includes a Ph.D. in Nutritional Sciences with a minor in Statistics from UIUC, as well as an M.S. in Food Science from WSU. Throughout her academic journey, she focused her research on investigating the impact of dietary and pharmaceutically interventions on physiology and gut microbiota in the context of obesity and metabolic disorders.

Presentation(s):

• Graduate Student Research Award Competition

  Saturday, July 22, 2023
  8:00 AM – 10:45 AM ET

  Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

• Meal Timing and Diet Quality for Prevention of Obesity and/or Cardiometabolic Disease (Oral 14)

  Monday, July 24, 2023
  8:00 AM – 9:30 AM ET

  Disclosure information not submitted.

• (OR14-06-23) Mealworms As Alternative Protein Reduced Weight Gain, Improved Blood Lipid Profiles, and Altered Adipose and Hepatic Gene Expression of Diet-Induced Obesity Mice

  Monday, July 24, 2023
  9:00 AM – 9:12 AM ET

  Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.