applegate@foodsci.purdue.edu

Department of Food Science
745 Agriculture Mall Drive
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2009

Phone: (765) 496-7920

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.