FSC Committee Chair

Richard Park

Chair, Young Professionals Committee

My main focus is the transfer of foodborne pathogens from the soil and dust onto the melon rind surface. The specific foodborne pathogens of interest are Salmonella and Listeria.

Margarethe Cooper

Chair, Internship and Education Committee

Food Safety, Food Microbiology, Microbiology, Parasitology

Kerry Cooper

Chair, Research Committee

Research - food safety, foodborne pathogens, Salmonella, Campylobacter, Escherichia coli, Listeria, genomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics, outbreak source tracking, bioinformatics, microbiome, foodborne epidemiology, whole genome sequencing, bacterial pathogenesis.

Teaching - veterinary microbiology, medical microbiology, food safety, food microbiology, bioinformatics, microbial genetics, microbial genomics.