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Colleen Fogarty Draper, MS RD, is a Registered Dietitian and scientific researcher at Nestle Institute of Health Sciences, currently pursuing her PhD in Nutritional Systems Biology at Leiden University. Colleen has spent the last decade and a half in nutritional systems biology research and integration into practice and biotechnology directing nutritional genomics clinical research and commercial nutritional genomics product design. She is presently enjoying bringing her depth and breath of experience in nutritional genomics and practice to nutrition systems and metabolism research at the Nestle Institute of Health Sciences in Lausanne, Switzerland. Colleen is currently focused on using novel research designs and approaches to data analysis to characterize the metabolic health of women and adolescent girls; examining the kinetic metabolome and microbiome response to an “ultra-healthy” vegan diet challenge; and creating information systems for dietary capture and analysis. She is passionate about developing novel research translatable to practice.