Dr. Anissa Armet is a registered dietitian and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Alberta. Anissa completed her PhD in Nutrition and Metabolism in March 2024. She then transitioned into her postdoc to research the effects of microbiome-targeted dietary interventions in adult and pediatric patients with inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). She uses machine learning to determine if the gut microbiome predicts clinical responses in the context of precision nutrition. Anissa herself is a patient with IBD that has used dietary strategies to manage her disease, which is a key motivator for her to conduct this research and help other patients use nutrition as medicine. Anissa is passionate about creating knowledge translation strategies, such as evidence-based cookbooks, to improve public access to research findings. In her spare time, Anissa enjoys cooking, tending to her many house plants, watching hockey, and going on hikes in the mountains with her husband.