IAB ONLY

March 2008

  1. Dr. Bala Balasubramaniam (OSU) – Study on food constituent protective effects and spore injury during pressure-assisted thermal processing of a low-acid food.

  2. Dr. Diane Barrett (UC Davis) – Evaluation of membrane stabilizing treatments that maintain cellular turgor after high pressure and thermal processing

  3. Dr. Kurt Koelling (OSU) – Assessing the feasibility of bio-based films as a cereal liner bag packaging application

  4. Dr. Hua Wang (OSU) – Accurate Assessment of food processing efficancy using non-culturing molecular detection method

October 2007

Dr. Bala Balasubramaniam (OSU) Feasibility of using a chemical marker technique for process uniformity studies during high pressure processing

May 2007

  1. Dr. Alyson Mitchell (UCD) Assessing the bioavailability of quercetin from fortified apple sauce (New Proposal)

  2. Dr. Bala Balasubramaniam (OSU) Study of food constituent protective effects and spore injury during pressure-assisted thermal processing of low-acid foods. (New Proposal)

  3. Dr. Ahmed Yousef (OSU) Elimination of processing-resistant spoilage and pathogenic bacteria from food using combination of pressure and xanthene-derivative (Renewal Request)

  4. Dr. Alejandro Amezquita (NCSU) Development of a sterilization time-temperature integrator (TTI) based on enzymes from hyperthermophilic microorganism (New Proposal)

  5. Dr. Melvin Pascall (OSU) Nanocomposite multilayer barrier technology for food packaging films (No Cost Extension)

October 2006

  1. Dr. Lee-Ann Jaykus (NCSU) – Rapid post process enumeration of surviving and inactivated endospores of thermobacteriological surrogate microorganisam (Seed request)

  2. Dr. Alyson Mitchell (UCD) – Preparation of standardized material and methods development for assessing the bioavailiaby of quercetin from fortified apple sauce (Seed request)

  3. Dr. Pieter Stroeve (UCD) – Use of PEF for reversible formation of nanopores in plant cell membranes (Seed request)

  4. Dr. Josip Simunovic (NCSU) – Investigation of a non-contact detection system for determination of cooking and sterilization state of microwave-treated pre-packaged foods and biomaterials (Confidential seed request)

  5. Dr. K.P. Sandeep (NCSU) – Use of RFID tags in determining the time-temperature history within a product during processing, transportation and storage (Seed request)

April 2006

  1. Dr. Ahmed Yousef (OSU) Elimination of processing-resistant spoilage and pathogenic bacteria from food using combination of pressure and xanthene-derivative

  2. Dr. Bala Balasubramaniam (OSU) – Quality of high pressure sterilized low-acid foods

  3. Dr. Melvin Pascall (OSU) – Nanocomposite Multilayer Barrier Technology for Food Packaging Films

  4. Dr. K.P. Sandeep (NCSU) Development of a Micro-Electro-Mechanical-System-based (MEMS) temperature sensor to determine internal temperatures within multiphase food products

  5. Dr. Hua Wang (OSU) Rapid detection of live microorganisms in foods

October 2005

  1. Dr. Ahmed Yousef (OSU)  Screening for antimicrobial peptides with potential application against foodborne gram negative pathogens.
  2. Dr. Pablo Coronel (NCSU)  In-line monitoring of dielectric properties of microwave heated food materials
  3. Dr. Luis Rodriguez-Saona (OSU)  Application of Infrared Spectroscopy for the Rapid Identification and Determination of Inactivation Kinetics of Spore-forming Bacteria
  4. Dr. Melvin Pascall (OSU)  Nanocomposite Multilayer Barrier Technology for Food Packaging Films

April 2005           

  1. Dr. Diane Barrett (UC Davis) Influence of various processes on plant cell integrity and its application to quality and shelf-life extension of refrigerated fruit products
  2. Dr. Stephanie Dungan (UC Davis) Creating Nanostructured Materials using Emulsifier Mixtures and milk protein
  3. Dr. Bala Balasubramaniam (OSU) Enhancing the microbial lethality of Clostridium botulinum surrogate spore during Pressure-Assisted Thermal Processing
  4. Dr. Thomas Shellhammer (Oregon State Univ) Pressure induced pH shifting to improve HPP lethality
  5. Dr. Hua Wang (OSU) Developing biofilm interfering formula for industrial application
  6. Dr. Luis Rodriguez-Saona (OSU) Application of infrared spectroscopy for the rapid identification and determination of inactivation kinetics of sporeforming bacteria.

May 2004

  1. Dr. V.M. (Bala) Balasubramaniam and Ahmed Yousef (OSU), Screening for a clostridium botulinum surrogate spore for validation of low-acid high-pressure processes.
  2. Dr. Sudhir Sastry (OSU) Advancement of High Pressure: Combination pressure/PEF and pressure-assisted thermal process technology
  3. Dr. Hao Fen (Univ. of Illinois) Manothermosonication for dual-inactivation of thermo resistant pectinmethylesterase and acid tolerant foodborne pathogens in orange juice.
  4. Dr. Ahmed Yousef (OSU) Screening for antimicrobial peptides with potential application against foodborne gram negative pathogens

November 2003

  1. Dr. Hua Wang, Dr. Ahmed Yousef (OSU), Developing rapid detection method for spoilage microorganisms
  1. Dr. Josip Sumunovic, Kenneth Swartzel, and K.P. Sandeep, (NCSU), Microwave assisted aseptic processing: extension of run times.

 April 2003

  1. Dr. Melvin Pascall (OSU) Development of a timesaving closure integrity testing method for "brick-type" packages and online leak detection evaluation for polymeric bottles
  2. Dr. B.M. (Bala) Balasubramaniam and A. Youse (OSU) Screening for a Clostridium botulinum surrogate spore for validation of low-acid high pressure
  3. Dr. Yael Vodovotz, V.M. Bala, Ahmed Yousef, Josh Bomser and Steven Schwartz (OSU) Effect of high pressure on the physico-chemical and quality characteristics of rice
  4. Dr. Moshe Rosenburg (UCD) Solid lipid nano-and microspheres for delivery of nutrients and nutraceuticals
  5. Dr. Thomas Shellhammer (Oregon State), Pressure induced pH shifting to improve HPP lethality

October 2002

  1. Dr. Hua Wang (OSU), Developing rapid detection method for spoilage microorganisms (Progress/extension)
  2. Dr. Susan Duncan (VPI) Photo-protective efficiency of tunable polymeric films for food systems
  3. Dr. Sudhir Sastry (OSU) Advancement of high pressure: combination pressure/PEF; and pressure-assisted thermal process technology
  4. Dr. Diane Barrett (UCD) Sterilization of pumpable acid and low-acid food using supercritical CO2
  5. Dr. Howard Zhang (OSU) Feasibility of reducing microbial load in high-solids, high-protein, ultrafiltered whey protein concentrate using pulsed electric field

February 2002

  1. A. Yousef, OSU - Sterilization of packaging materials using ozone in a simulated aseptic filler system
  2. D. Barrett, UCD - Inactivation kinetics of quality-related enzymes in apple juice using thermal and non-thermal processing methods
  3. M. Rosenberg, UCD - Solid lipid nano and microspheres for delivery of nutrients and nutraceuticals
  4. C. Sabliov, NCSU - Analysis of design parameters and their influence on continuous flow microwave processing
  5. J. Marcy, VPS - Continuation - Active packaging for odor removal in foods
  6. K. McCarthy, UCD - Continuation - Rapid in-line ultrasonic-based viscosity measurements effect of temperature and temperature gradients
  7. J. Simunovic, NCSU - Continuation - Continuous flow rapid heating and cooling for shelf stable and ESL products-feasibility study

 

 
       
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