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Alani Adkins, an undergraduate majoring in Food Nutritional Sciences at NC A&T State University, was a summer scholar in the Ibrahim lab. Her research focused on the use lactic acid bacteria to control the growth of E. sakazakii and E. coli O157:H7. Marcella Dyanne Cheek, an undergraduate majoring in Food and Nutritional Sciences at NC A&T State University, was a summer scholar in the Ibrahim lab. Her research is related to development of educational materials in the area of food defense and protection. |
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Three undergraduate students, majoring in Biology, participated in a pilot, five-week Food Safety Summer Scholars Program at Texas Wesleyan University during the summer of 2011. The students worked under the mentorship of Dr. Angela Roberts. Rebecca Mandujano, a senior Biology major, studied how effectively a recipe for homemade queso fresco kills Listeria monocytogenes during cheese preparation. Truc Nguyen, a senior Biology major, used site-directed mutagenesis to probe the contribution of a premature stop codon in the flaR gene of Listeria monocytogenes on flagellar motility. Lorena Ortiz, a senior Biology major, used cell culture to compare the intracellular growth rates of strains of Listeria monocytogenes isolated from human clinical cases of listeriosis. |