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The USDA announced several grants involving CNS faculty, including: Shannon Manning, assistant professor of microbiology, $2.4M for a food safety project, Claire Vieille, assistant professor of microbiology, $957,000 for a bioenergy project “Engineering succinate production by Actinobaccillus succinogenes,” and Carolyn Malmstrom, associate professor of plant biology, for a bioenergy project “Control and mitigation of generalist [...]
Sungjin Kim, assistant professor of microbiology and molecular genetics, and Liz Gardner, associate professor of food science and human nutrition, have received a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study natural killer cell response as a way to control early influenza infection in vulnerable populations, including the elderly. Read more…
Contaminated spinach in 21 states caused 205 confirmed cases of illness and three deaths in 2006. Understanding how contamination occurs and ways to improve food safety are critical in preventing future outbreaks of foodborne illness. Professor Elliot Ryser in the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition leads a research program that examines the way [...]
Physiology professor Julia Busik and food science professor Jennifer Fenton have identified a new link between body fat and cancer in a study published in the journal Carcinogenesis. Read more…
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