Post Doctoral Projects

The natural antimicrobial carvacrol and thymol disrupt desiccation resistance in Salmonella enterica serovar Tennessee: Advancing safety of low-moisture foods

Ahmed Abdelhamid (Post Doctoral)

Advisor:
Ahmed Yousef (Department of Food Science and Technology)

Introduction: Salmonella enterica can survive effectively in low-moisture (LM) foods. Consequently, large multi-state salmonellosis outbreaks have been attributed to consumption of foods such as peanut butter, almonds and others. S. enterica employs desiccation resistance mechanisms to survive...
Techno-economic and life cycle analyses of biobased lactic acid production

Ashish Manandhar (Post Doctoral)

Advisor:
Ajay Shah (Department of Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering)

Lactic acid (LA) is one of the few biobased chemicals that can be used for different applications and is expected to grow to a $10 billion industry by 2025. Currently, commercial facility producing LA using first-generation feedstock (corn grain) and non-existent for second-generation feedstocks...
Whole genome sequencing of grapevine, Vitis labrusca, reveals a majorexpansion of the NLR resistance gene family

Bo Li (Post Doctoral)

Advisor:
Andrea R. Gschwend (Department of Food Science and Technology)

Efficiently utilizing the wild genetic diversity is the key to sustainable crop improvement and achieving high quality cultivars. Cultivated grape (Vitis vinifera) is one of the most economically important fruit crops, which is wildly used to produce wine, juice, raisins, and fresh fruit. Vitis...
Role of insecticidal seed treatments and refuge for managing soybean aphid virulence

Carlos J. Esquivel (Post Doctoral)

Advisor:
Luis Canas (Department of Entomology)

Aphid-resistant soybean varieties with Rag (Resistance to Aphis glycines) genes are promising tools for the management of soybean aphid. Intriguingly, there are soybean aphid populations that can overcome such genetic resistance (i.e. virulent aphids) and cause yield losses. Previous research...
Adipogenic and myogenic potentials of chicken embryonic fibroblasts in vitro: Combination of fatty acids and insulin induces adipogenesis

Dong-Hwan Kim (Post Doctoral)

Advisor:
Kichoon Lee (Department of Animal Sciences)

The regulation of adipocyte differentiation is an important factor for production efficiency and meat quality in the poultry industry. The purpose of this study was to develop a new in vitro model of adipogenic differentiation of chicken embryonic fibroblasts (CEF). In this study, CEF were...
Thermal, pressure and shear on the inactivation of Lactobacillus brevis and Bacillus cereus

Jie Xu (Post Doctoral)

Advisor:
V.M. (Bala) Balasubramaniam (Department of Food Science and Technology)

Ultra-shear technology (UST) exposes bacterial cells to lethal factors including pressure, shear and heat. Limited studies evaluated the sensitivity of bacteria to these lethal factors. The aim of this study is to investigate the inactivation of two bacteria (Lactobacillus brevis and Bacillus...
A microfluidic approach to hierarchical 3D leafy green-mimic structures for studying attachment and colonization of Escherichia coli O157:H7 under fluid shear stress

Jin Hong Mok (Post Doctoral)

Advisor:
Sudhir K. Sastry (Department of Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering)

Pathogenic bacteria can attach and infiltrate onto fresh produce, leading to foodborne disease outbreaks. Pathogens might use hierarchical stalks, crevices and natural openings on the leafy greens to survive washing. In this study, we assessed the 3D configurations and distributions of...
Intranasal deliverable mannose surface conjugated chitosan-based influenza nanovaccine for nursery pigs

Sankar Renu (Post Doctoral)

Advisor:
Renukaradhya Gourapura (Food Animal Health Research Program)

Virulent swine influenza A virus (SwIAV) infection causes acute febrile respiratory disease in pigs of all ages. The triple reassortant 2009 pandemic SwIAV-H1N1 spillover to humans is evidence that pig can act as a mixing vessel for mammalian and avian influenza viruses. The commercial...
Ditch-style Filters for Mitigating Dissolved Phosphorus Losses

Vinayak Shedekar (Post Doctoral)

Advisor:
Margaret Kalcic (Department of Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering)

It has been established that spring dissolved reactive Phosphorus (DRP) loads drive the extent of HABs in the Western Lake Erie Basin. Many practices intended for mitigating P losses are intended to reduce particulate P transport and are usually not effective in controlling DRP transport....

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