New Job Posting – Research Microbiologist/Scientist, Dallas Area
For more than four generations, our client company has been a family-owned and run company committed to providing the freshest, most wholesome dairy products. Their dedication to pure ingredients with no preservatives makes for great-tasting products and sets them apart from others. They currently have a new opportunity for a Research Microbiologist at their new, state-of-the art R&D lab in the Dallas area.
Rodolphe Barrangou talks award-winning genome research
Rodolphe Barrangou, an associate professor in NC State’s Department of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences, will be receiving the 2018 NAS Prize in Food and Agriculture Sciences for his work with Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)
UMass Amherst Food Scientists Developing New, Low-Cost Tool for Detecting Bacteria in Food and Water
Food scientist Lili He and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst report that they have developed a new, rapid and low-cost method for detecting bacteria in water or a food sample. Once commercially available, it should be useful to cooks using fresh fruits and vegetables, for example, and aid workers in the field responding to natural disasters, He says.
Microbiology 101 Part Two
In the second part of this series, Dr. Kathy Knutson discusses some of the usual suspects and tools for mitigating the growth of these harmful microorganisms.
SEED TO TABLE: Intestinal microbes
Any astute cattleman knows that he cannot change feed sources on his herd quickly; he must gradually blend the new feed with the old over several days. If he doesn’t do this, he runs the risk of creating health issues for his animals, such as bloating. This is particular problematic in the spring when moving the herd from dry hay onto lush green vegetation.