Mengyao Zhao

Affiliation

Visiting Fellow
Biology Specialization: Chemical and Environmental Toxicology
Email: mzha7@uottawa.ca

Research interests

Food safety
Toxicology

Bio

I am in a 2-years joint Ph.D. training program organized by China Scholarship Council. I am a Ph.D. candidate from China Agricultural University and a visiting researcher in the University of Ittawa. I came here to continued my work in Dr. Chan's lab on acrylamide-induced neurotoxicity.

Research project

• We are trying to find the pathway of acrylamide (AA) caused neurotoxicity using mice primary cell model. These pathways alteration may give a new insight for the development of adverse outcome pathway approach for the risk assessment of AA.

Publications

1. Zhao M. Y et al., Evaluation of protective effect of freeze-dried strawberry, grape, and blueberry powder on acrylamide toxicity in mice. J Food Sci.
2. Zhao M. Y et al., Blueberry anthocyanins extract inhibits acrylamide-induced diverse toxicity in mice by preventing oxidative stress and cytochrome P450 2E1 activation. J Functional Food.
3. Zhao M. Y et al., The chemoprotection of a blueberry anthocyanin extract against the acrylamide-induced oxidative stress in mitochondria: unequivocal evidence in mice liver. Food and Function.
4. Zhao M. Y et al., Degradation Kinetics of Malvidin-3-glucoside and Malvidin-3,5-diglucoside exposed to microwave treatment. J Agric Food Chem.
5. Zhao M. Y et al., The identification of degradation products and degradation pathway of malvidin-3-glucoside and malvidin-3,5-diglucoside under microwave treatment. Food Chem.

Presentations

The Role of the Nrf2-ARE and NF-kB Pathways in Acrylamide Neurotoxicity Institute food science and technology annual meeting (IFT 2016 Chicago) July 19. 2016