Stephanie Dubrof

College of Family and Consumer Sciences

Nutritional Sciences

PhD Candidate

Stephanie Dubrof is a Ph.D. Candidate in Dr. Hea Jin Park's Bioactive Compounds Lab

160 Barrow Hall
115 DW Brooks Dr.
Athens, GA 30602

stephanie.dubrof@uga.edu

Education

Degree Field of Study Institution Graduation
Bachelor of Science Florida State University 2014

Teaching

  1. Guest Lecturer for Cultural Aspect of Foods and Nutrition, September 2023.

  2. Guest Lecturer for Cultural Aspects of Foods and Nutrition Food Lab, November 2022.

  3. Teaching Assistant for Optimal Nutrition of the Life Span, August 2021 – December 2021.

  4. Biological Sciences Laboratory, Florida State University. August 2017 - May 2018.

Awards

Award Name Awarded By Year Awarded
Graduate Student Travel Funding, Nutritional Sciences Funds Department of Nutritional Sciences 2024
Virginia Wilbanks Kilgore Scholarship College of Family and Consumer Sciences 2023
Virginia Wilbanks Kilgore Scholarship College of Family and Consumer Sciences 2022
Graduate Student Travel Funding, Nutritional Sciences Funds Department of Nutritional Sciences 2022
Franklin Foundation Neuroimaging Grant Bio-Imaging Research Center (BIRC) 2020
Young Investigator Award American Egg Nutrition Center (ENC) 2020

Publications

  1.  Sarah L. Schantz, Geffrey S. Cosgrave, Albino G. Schifino, Taylor H. LePage, Stephanie T. Dubrof, Sydney E. Sneed, Savannah R. Cheek, Hea Jin Park, Holly A. Kinder, Kylee J. Duberstein, Jarrod A. Call, Erin E. Kaiser, Franklin D. West. Combined Human Neural Stem Cell and Structured Treadmill Walking Therapy Enhances Recovery in a Pediatric Porcine Traumatic Brain Injury Model. Journal of Neurotrauma. 2025

  2. Stephanie T. Dubrof, Jillien G. Zukaitis, Ishfaque Ahmed, Wenwu Sun, Kelly M. Scheulin, Xi Fang, Julie Jeon, Qun Zhao, Franklin D. West, Hea Jin Park. Maternal supplementation of egg yolk modulates brain functional organization and functional outcomes of offspring. Nutrition Research. 2024.

  3. Brice T. Hudson, Stephanie T. Dubrof*, Skylar E. Settles, Hea Jin Park, Nikolay M. Filipov. Effects of Maternal Supplementation with DHA and/or Egg Yolk Powder on Monoamine Homeostasis in the Perinatal Piglet Brain Nutritional Neuroscience. Nutritional Neuroscience. 2024.

  4. Wenwu Sun, Ishfaque Ahmed, Stephanie T. Dubrof, Hea Jin Park, Franklin D. West, Qun Zhao. Affinity of Structural White Matter Tracts between Infant and Adult Pig. Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 2024.

  5. Ishfaque Ahmed, William Reeves, Wenwu Sun, Stephanie T. Dubrof, Jillien G. Zukaitis, Franklin D. West, Hea Jin Park, Qun Zhao. Nutritional supplement induced modulations in the functional connectivity of a porcine brain. Nutritional Neuroscience. 2023.

  6. Julie Heejin Jeon, Jeferson Lourenco, Madison Fagan, Christina Welch, Sydney Sneed, Stephanie T. Dubrof, Kylee Duberstein, Todd Callaway, Franklin D. West, Hea Jin Park. Changes in Oral Microbial Diversity in a Piglet Model of Traumatic Brain Injury. Brain Sciences. 2022.

  7. Stephanie T. Dubrof, Jillien G. Zukaitis, Ishfaque Ahmed, Wenwu Sun, Kelly M. Scheulin, Xi Fang, Julie Jeon, Qun Zhao, Franklin D. West, Hea Jin Park. Perinatal supplementation of egg yolk plus docosahexaenoic acid alters the functional organization of the brain in offspring. FASEB Journal. 2022. 

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