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BRUCE APPLEGATE
| Associate Professor Department of Food Science Courtesy Appointment Food Science Building Room 3161 496-7920 CV: Link |
Professional Faculty Research
Detection of viable foodborne pathogens using bateriophage; automated extraction of nucleic acids from various matrices; enumeration of microorganisms (i.e. pathogens and other organisms) using quantitative PCR; the use of bioreporters in bioelectronics; metabolic engineering; detection of problematic microorganisms in industrial environments; construction of recombinant bacterial strains to rapidly evaluate antimicrobial products; microbial ecology.