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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. Truc's poster describing his research and entitled, "Rescue of the flaR gene in strain N1-003 of Listeria monocytogenes" won first place in the microbiology category at the 2012 Beta Beta Beta National Convention in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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.
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Alabama A&M University hosted a food science summer program during 2011 for undergraduate students. The program focused on all the different aspects of product development with special emphasis on food safety, development of HACCP plans, etc. For more information contact Martha Verghese martha.verghese@aamu.edu. |