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Dr Aimee Dordevic is a Registered Nutritionist with both the Nutrition Society of Australia and the Association for Nutrition (UK). She works in the Department of Nutrition, Dietetics & Food, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Monash University as a Nutrition Science Senior Lecturer and Researcher.

Aimee studies nutrition mechanisms and metabolism using molecular biology techniques to investigate how nutrients, lifestyle and disease states are linked through nutrigenomic interactions. She specialises in conducting human studies, with a particular interest on the impact of food and its components on metabolic inflammation and oxidative stress, and the relationship between diet to chronic diseases.

Aimee's PhD titled the 'Investigation of the acute nutrigenomic response of adipose tissue' examined the effect of macronutrients on inflammatory and metabolic signalling in human serum and adipose tissue. The project involved treatment of cultured cells with different types of fatty acids as well as collection and subsequent molecular analysis of human tissue samples in the hours immediately following meals that varied in macronutrient composition. After her PhD, she joined Monash University as a Research Fellow investigating weight managment for adolescents.

Aimee is an Oceanic Nutrition Leadership Platform alumni, and is committed to advancing the science of nutrition, and enhancing the future workforce though her role as an educator, and service through professional organisations.

Current service:

  • Nutrition Society of Australia, Honorary Secretary
  • National Committee for Nutrition. Australian Academy of Science, Decadal Plan Implementation Committee
  • European Nutrigenomics Orgnanization (NuGO), Bioinformatics working group

Research interests

Research Interests: Aimee's research interests include the role of diet in inflammation and immunity and the analysis of inflammation and metabolism of humans in response to food.

Research Expertise: Human clinical trial co-ordination, human tissue protein and gene expression analysis, acute feeding trials, cell culture, adipose tissue biology, nutritional immunology, immunohistochemistry, anthropometry, phlebotomy and dietary analysis.

Monash teaching commitment

Unit co-ordinator and lecturer for:

  • NUT1101 Science Foundations
  • NUT2103 Nutritional Physiology

Contribute lecture/workshop content or marking to:

  • NUT1103 Human Biology for Nutrition
  • NUT3008 Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Nutrition
  • NUT3001 Evidence Based Nutrition

Aimee is a member of the Department of Nutrition, Dietetics & Food Indigenous Curriculum Working Group

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
  • SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
  • SDG 14 - Life Below Water

Research area keywords

  • Nutrition
  • Nutrigenomics
  • Postprandial metabolism
  • Metabolism
  • Nutritional immunology
  • Chronic disease

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