As the new academic year approaches, the UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences is pleased to introduce Professor Gerardo Mackenzie as the new chair of the Department of Nutrition.

Mackenzie has been with the department faculty since 2016. Before that, he spent nine years as an investigator and faculty member with the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He earned his bachelor’s degree, as well as a Ph.D. in cell biology, from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.