I obtained a BSc in Pharmacy at Fudan University in Shanghai, China and a PhD in Biology at the Institute for Food Safety and Health at Illinois Tech, Chicago. My postdoctoral training was at the Department of Food Science, Cornell University, New York. Currently I’m an Assistant Professor of Food Safety Engineering at the University of British Colombia.
My research focus on microbial safety in the Ulrich Freybe Food Safety Laboratory. Researchers and students in my lab are using molecular approaches to understand the microorganisms that post major threats to food safety, security and public health.
Role in Syst-OMICS
In collaboration with Pascal Delaquis, I’m involved in Activity 2.1 – Isolation and characterization of bacteriophage that inhibit growth and/or attachment of Salmonella serovars which aims to assembled and screened a collection of Salmonella bacteriophages isolated from disparate environments against a collection of well-characterized Salmonella isolates from Act. 2.2.
I’m also involved in Activity 2.3 – In vitro evaluation of Salmonella inhibition by bacteriophages. Two different bacteriophage inoculation methods will be employed: soaking seed in a bacteriophage preparation to favour systemic infection of the plant and direct application on the leaves prior to spot inoculation with Salmonella.