Dr. Ramsey training and research interests are in the area of nutrition, aging and bioenergetics. I have experience performing studies that determine the impact of diet on life span, health span, and energy metabolism. I received my doctoral training in animal energetics at Colorado State University, and I gained experience with whole animal (indirect respiration calorimetry) and mitochondrial measures of energy metabolism. As a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Wisconsin, I received training in the study of nutrition and energy metabolism as it relates to aging and calorie restriction. My research interest continues to focus on the role nutrition and energy metabolism plays in aging. I have established a laboratory that routinely measures life span, whole animal energy expenditure (indirect respiration calorimetry), motor function, cognitive function, mitochondrial function, and the activities of key enzymes of intermediary metabolism. I am also the Core Leader of the UC Davis Mouse Metabolic Phenotypic Center Energy Balance, Exercise and Behavior Core. As Principal Investigator on several industry, university and NIH-funded grants, I have experience successfully administering research projects, collaborating with other investigators and producing peer-reviewed publications.