Mahsa Fardisi
Department of Nutrition
Dr. Mahsa Fardisi grew up in Shiraz, IRAN. She obtained her MS (2011) and Ph.D. (2015) degrees in Entomology (insect biology) at Purdue University. Her graduate research focused on food and feed susceptibility to insect pests. She was a postdoc (2015-2019) at the Center for Urban and Industrial Pest Management at Purdue, focusing on controlling German cockroaches while reducing their resistance to chemicals. Then, she joined Dr. Moeser’s Gastrointestinal Stress Biology lab (2019) as a research assistant at Michigan State University. Her project focused on early-life adversity on gut immune development in a porcine model.