Angelique Arcambal
University of Reunion, France
Biography
Angelique Arcambal is persuing her PhD from University of Reunion, France, under the supervision of Professor Marie-Paule Gonthier. Marie-Paule Gonthier is a Professor of Nutrition at the Medicine School of the University of Reunion in France. She has received her PhD degree in Nutrition from the Medicine School of Clermont-Ferrand, France. Her work consisted on evaluating the bioavailability of dietary antioxidant polyphenols in humans and demonstrated the role of the gut microflora on polyphenol metabolic fate. During her Post-Doctoral position at the National Research Center of Naples, Italy, she contributed to the understanding of the effects of endocannabinoids derived from dietary lipids on adipose tissue biology and reported the overproduction of endocannabinoids from human adipocytes and pancreatic beta cells during obesity and type-2 diabetes.