Emma Beckett

• Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Nutrition, Dietetics & Food Innovation - School of Health Sciences, UNSW Sydney

Emma has a multi-faceted research background, with qualifications and experience in food science, nutrition, epidemiology, science management, biomedical sciences, immunology and microbiology. Her research focuses on interactions (food, people, environments, nutrients, society) because food isn't nutrition until we eat it, and humans are complex and varied!

Emma is also a passionate science communicator. The author of "You Are More Than What You Eat", she has written for newspapers and magazines, and appears regularly on local and national radio. Emma's science communication work focuses on nutrition myth busting and empowering the public to interpret nutrition research. In 2017 she was named as a NSW Young Tall Poppy, in recognition of both her research and communication work.

• 2024–present Adjunct Senior Lecturer, UNSW
• 2023–present Dynamic Foodie, FOODiQ Global
• 2022–2023 Senior Lecturer, The University of Newcastle
• 2021–2022 Lecturer (Food Science & Human Nutrition), The University of Newcastle
• 2017–2020 NHMRC Early Career Fellow, The University of Newcastle
• 2008–2012 Research Assistant and Laboratory Manager, Immunology and Microbiology, University of Newcastle

• 2020 Deakin University, Graduate Certificate Human Nutrition
• 2016 University of Newcastle/CSIRO, PhD (Food Science)
• 2011 University of Newcastle, Masters of Science Management
• 2010 University of Newcastle, Graduate Diploma in Clinical Epidemiology
• 2007 University of Newcastle, Bachelor of Biomedical Science (Honours Class I)

• 2015 Vitamin D receptor genotype modulates the correlation between vitamin D and circulating levels of let-7a/b and vitamin D intake in an elderly cohort., J Nutrigenetics & Nutrigenomics
• 2015 Macrolide therapy suppresses key features of experimental steroid-sensitive and steroid-insensitive asthma, Thorax
• 2015 Folate status, folate-related genes and serum miR-21 expression: Implications for miR-21 as a biomarker, BBA Clinical
• 2015 Methylation diet and methyl group genetics in risk for adenomatous polyp occurrence, BBA Clinical
• 2015 Vitamin D: Beyond Metabolism, JEBCAM
• 2014 Taste Genetics- the relationship to tasting, liking, consumption and health., Food and Function
• 2014 The role of vitamins and minerals in modulating the expression of microRNA., Nutrition Research Reviews
• 2014 Damaging legacy; maternal cigarette smoking has long-term consequences for male offspring fertility, Human Reproduction
• 2014 Bronchiolar Remodeling in Adult Mice Following Neonatal Exposure to Hyperoxia: Relation to Growth., Anatomical Record
• 2013 Scrambled and fried: Cigarette smoke exposure causes antral follicle destruction and oocyte dysfunction through oxidative stress., Toxicol Appl Pharmacol.
• 2013 A new short-term mouse model of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease identifies a role for mast cell tryptase in pathogenesis., J Allergy Clin Immunol.
• 2012 Chlamydia muridarum lung infection in infants alters hematopoietic cells to promote allergic airway disease in mice., PLoS One.
• 2012 TLR2, but not TLR4, is required for effective host defence against Chlamydia respiratory tract infection in early life., PLoS One.
• 2011 Increased zona pellucida thickness and meiotic spindle disruption in oocytes from cigarette smoking mice., Human Reprod
• 2011 Streptococcus pneumoniae infection suppresses allergic airways disease by inducing regulatory T-cells., Eur Respir J.
• 2010 Surveillance and analysis of avian influenza viruses, Australia., Emerg Infect Dis.
• 2010 Fibulin-1 is increased in asthma--a novel mediator of airway remodeling?, PLoS One.

• 2017 NHMRC ECR Fellowship Role: Fellow Funding Source: National Health and Medical Research Council
• 2016 AMP Tomorrow Maker Role: CI Funding Source: AMP Foundation
• 2012 CSIRO OCE Scholar Role: Student (PhD) Scholarship Funding Source: CSIRO

• Nutrition Society of Australia, Member
• AIFST

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