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Frank Duca

Assistant Professor, Physiological Sciences - GIDP | Member of the Graduate Faculty | Associate Professor, BIO5 Institute | Associate Professor, Gastrointestinal Microbiology

Animal&Biomedical Sciences-Res

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Physiology and Anatomy of Domestic Animals

Student Thesis/Dissertation(9)

Metabolites Produced or Altered by the Gut Microbiota Impact Metabolic Homeostasis
2025·doctoral
The Impact of Diet and the Gut Microbiota on Small Intestinal Gut-Brain Signaling Mechanisms that Regulate Metabolic Homeostasis
2025·doctoral
The Effect of Colonic SCFA on Energy Homeostasis
2022·masters
The Honey Bee Superorganism: Social Insect Life History and the Microbiome
2022·doctoral
The Effects of Plant-Based Flours on Energy and Glucose Homeostasis
2021·masters

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Frank Duca

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Physiology and Anatomy of Domestic Animals

Student Thesis/Dissertation(9)

Metabolites Produced or Altered by the Gut Microbiota Impact Metabolic Homeostasis

The Impact of Diet and the Gut Microbiota on Small Intestinal Gut-Brain Signaling Mechanisms that Regulate Metabolic Homeostasis

The Effect of Colonic SCFA on Energy Homeostasis

The Honey Bee Superorganism: Social Insect Life History and the Microbiome

The Effects of Plant-Based Flours on Energy and Glucose Homeostasis

Profile

Frank Duca

Courses(1)

Physiology and Anatomy of Domestic Animals

Student Thesis/Dissertation(9)

Metabolites Produced or Altered by the Gut Microbiota Impact Metabolic Homeostasis

The Impact of Diet and the Gut Microbiota on Small Intestinal Gut-Brain Signaling Mechanisms that Regulate Metabolic Homeostasis

The Effect of Colonic SCFA on Energy Homeostasis

The Honey Bee Superorganism: Social Insect Life History and the Microbiome

The Effects of Plant-Based Flours on Energy and Glucose Homeostasis