Photo of the week: Congratulations to Marina Iacovou on her PhD!

Congratulations to Marina Iacovou, pictured (right) with supervisor Dr Jane Muir (left), on the completion of her PhD! Marina's thesis title is, "Exploring the role of FODMAPs in the diet of breastfeeding mothers in alleviating symptoms of colic in breastfed infants”, and she was supervised by Dr Jane Muir and Professor Peter Gibson in the Department of Gastroenterology. Marina is continuing to work with the Gastroenterology Department as a relationship and project manager for business and research activities within the team. One area of Marina's role is to head the low FODMAP Certification Program which is developing a lot of interest from food industry, healthcare providers, clinicians and other scientific organisations.

See more about the group's research at: http://www.med.monash.edu/cecs/gastro/research/nutrition.html