Food Science
Food Science offers opportunities in the areas of food analysis, food biotechnology, food chemistry, food microbiology, food process science, food quality evaluation, food safety and toxicology, and wine biotechnology.
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Faculty Members in Food Science
| Name | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Dee, Derek | Environment and natural resources economics; Food sciences (including food engineering); Natural resource management; Agri-food Transformation Products; aspartic proteases; Biological and Biochemical Mechanisms; Biophysics; Enzymes and Proteins; food chemistry; food proteins; funtional amyloid; meat analogues; Nanomaterials; Nutriceuticals and Functional Foods; prions; protein aggregation; protein engineering; Protein Folding; protein nanofibrils; Proteins; psychrophilic enzymes |
| Frostad, John | Chemical engineering; Food sciences (including food engineering); Emulsions; Fluid mechanics; Foams; Functional Foods; Interfacial Phenomena; Interfacial Rheology; Novel Instrumentation; Nutriceuticals and Functional Foods; Physics of Soft Matter; Sensory Analysis |
| Kitts, David | Food chemistry and toxicology, cellular and molecular mechanism, oncology |
| Measday, Vivien | Chromosome segregation in the budding yeast using molecular biology and genomic tools |
| Pratap-Singh, Anubhav | Environment and natural resources economics; Food sciences (including food engineering); Natural resource management; Agri-food Transformation Products; cold plasma; food engineering; food processing; Functional Foods; heat transfer; high pressure; mass transfer; novel non-thermal processing; Nutriceuticals and Functional Foods; pasteurization; pulsed light; sterilization |
| Scaman, Christine | Food sciences (including food engineering); Glycosidases; Enzyme mechanism; Food carbohydrate chemistry |
| Wang, Siyun | Food sciences (including food engineering); Agri-food Transformation Products; Microbiology; Bioactive Molecules; Food microbiology; Food safety |
| Yada, Rickey | Enzymes (including kinetics and mechanisms, and biocatalyst); Other biological sciences; Food science; Food protein chemistry; Structure-function relationships; Enzymes; aspartic proteases |
| Yang, Tianxi | Develop novel Point-of-Care tools for food safety monitoring; Design smart nano-enabled agrichemicals for precision agriculture; Create sustainable and multifunctional packaging materials to improve food safety and quality |
