A/Prof Barbara Meyer

BSc(Hons), Monash, RNutr, PhD Monash

Positions:

• Associate Professor in the School of Health Sciences
• Head of the Nutrient Analysis Laboratory in the School of Health sciences
• Senior Researcher in the Metabolic Research Centre and the Smart Foods Centre

Teaching:

• Undergraduate nutrition and pathophysiology
• Undergraduate and postgraduate research student supervision

Research Interests:

• the role of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids in the Australian diet and it’s relationship to health and disease including cardiovascular disease, depression, post-natal depression, schizophrenia and complicated pregnancies such as pre-eclampsia  
• specific foods (eg soy foods), nutrients in foods/supplements and their ability to reduce cardiovascular risk factors in human intervention trials.
• dyslipidaemia, in particular intermediate density lipoprotein (IDL), the IDL subpopulations, and their relationship to the risk of developing atherosclerosis;

Affiliations:

• Member - Australian Atherosclerosis Society (AAS)
  
• Member - Nutrition Society of Australia (NSA)
  - Chair NSA Wollongong Group
  - Member NSA Council
  - Treasurer NSA
• Member - International Society of Atherosclerosis

Publications:

Searchable RIS publications from 2000 to date.

Top Publications:

• Thorp AA, Howe PRC, Mori TA, Coates AM, Buckley JD, Hodgson J, Mansour J, Meyer BJ.  Soy food consumption does not lower LDL cholesterol in either equol or nonequol producers.  Am J Clin Nutr 2008;88: (pages to follow, accepted April 19, 2008).
  
  
• Sullivan BL, Brown J, Williams PG, Meyer BJ.  Dietary validation of a new food frequency questionnaire that estimates long-chain omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids.  British Journal of Nutrition  2008;99:660-666.
  
  
• Grenyer BFS, Crowe T, Meyer B, Owen AJ, Grigonis-Deane EM, Caputi P, Howe PRC.  Fish oil supplementation in the treatment of major depression: A randomised double-blind placebo-controlled trial. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry 2007;31:1393-1396.
  
  
• Meyer BJ, Duvillard L, Owen AJ, Packard CJ, Caslake MJ.  Fractionation of cholesteryl ester rich intermediate density lipoprotein subpopulations by chondroitin sulphate.  Atherosclerosis 2007 Dec 195(2):e28-34 Epub 2007 Mar 6.
  
  
• Stewart F, Rodie VA, Ramsay JE, Greer IA, Freeman DJ, Meyer BJ.  Longitudinal assessment of erythrocyte fatty acid composition and concentration throughout pregnancy and in the post partum period.  Lipids  2007;42(4):335-344.
  
  
• Giacco R, Cuomo V, Vessby B, Uusitupa M, Hermansen K, Meyer BJ, Riccardi G, Rivellese AA. KANWU Study Group.  Fish oil, insulin metabolism and glucose tolerance in healthy people: is there any effect in relation to the type of background diet and habitual dietary intake of n-6 and n-3 fatty acids?  Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases 2007;17:572-580.