FSC Member

Ariel Ramirez Valencia

Walter Ram

Kristen Pogreba-Brown

Food Safety Interest - How foodborne outbreaks are investigated and incorporating new methods to detect and respond in a more efficient and timely manner. I am also interested in the risk factors associated with Campylobacter infections.

Research Focus - long-term Campylobacter surveillance, risk assessment using epidemiologic data.

Ian Pepper

Research:

- soils and human health

- potable water quality including real- time sensors for microbial and chemical contaminants

- fate of emerging microbial and biological contaminants

- water and wastewater reuse

Trudy Morrow

Leatta McLaughlin

Jean McLain

Past FSC Chair

- Microbiological quality of irrigation water (cultural and molecular)
- Microbiology of soils (cultural and molecular)
- Antibiotic resistance (cultural and molecular)

Research - Pathogen transmission to crops from animals; Dredging influences on canal water quality; Guidelines for irrigation water sample collection; Assessment of Escherichia coli as an indicator.

Rick Mann

Tilak Mahato

Roland Mader