Alice van der Schoot

Alice is a nutritionist and PhD student in the Department of Nutritional Sciences. She is undertaking a PhD investigating the effect of dietary interventions in enhancing the immune response following the influenza vaccination in a large randomised controlled trial in healthy adults. In addition to measuring markers of the immune response, the project involves measuring faecal metabolites to investigate the role of the gut microbiota in regulating immune responses.

Alice has obtained her BSc in Neuroscience at the University of Leeds, and her MSc in Nutrition at King’s College London. In addition, she has worked as a research assistant in the Department of Nutritional Sciences investigating the effect of diet in constipation. She is involved in the development of evidence-based dietary guidelines for the management of chronic constipation.