Background and Education: December, 1993, Ph.D. Enviromental Sciences and Engineering School of Public Health University of North Carolina at CHapel Hill(UNC-CH) Major area of study: Food and Enviromental Virology Supporting areas of study: Quantitative Risk Assessment and Epidemiology June, 1982, M.S. Animal Sciences Purdue University Major area of study: Food Microbiology May, 1979, B.S. Food Science Purdue University

Research Personnel Danielle Robins Datz Graduate Students and Current Projects: Alissa Dix, M.S. Development of a Virion Extraction Method for the Detection of Human Enteric Viruses by Reverse Transcriptase-Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) and Oligoprobing (OP). Carol Domboski, M.S. candidate Evaluation of minimal heat treatments to control Vibrio vulnificus in Oysters. Paris Leggit, M.S. candidate Rapid Molecular Methods for the Detection of Viral Contamination of Foods. Lisa Lucore, Ph.D. candidate Development of Methods to Concentrate and Purify Enteric Pathogens from Dairy Products for Detection using Polymerase Chain Reaction(PCR). Soraya Rosenfield, M.S. candidate Development of Methods Polymerase Chain Reaction Methods(PCR) to Detect Salmonella Species in Foods.