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Research Labs

  1. Canadian Research Institute for Food Safety (CRIFS)
    Mansel Griffiths
    Milena Corredig
    Epidemiology, Food Ecology, Food Policy, Food Process Engineering, Microbial Detection, Pathogenesis, Risk Assessment, Toxicology

    CRIFS is dedicated to the generation of new knowledge through b...

  2. Cereal Lab
    Koushik Seetharaman
    Cereal, Grain, Starch
    Baking grain quality, starch functionality, baked products.
    Food/Product Types: Cereal, Grain, Starch.

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  3. Dairy Lab
    Milena Corredig
    Yukio Kakuda
    Protein during processing, aggregating food systems, foam and emulsion interfaces, adding functional ingredients to milk.
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  4. Dr. Keith Warriner's Lab
    Keith Warriner
    Biosensors, Clostridium difficile, food safety, High Hydrostatic Processing, Intervention technologies, Listeria monocytogenes, Meat Microbiology, Microbiological Safety of Fresh Produce, Salmonella, UV technologies

    We study all aspects of food safety from epidemiology of foodborne pathogens, risk assessment, intervention technologies, diagnostic for biohazard...

  5. Dr. Peter Purslow's Lab - Cell mechanotransduction
    biomechanics, cell biology, cell signalling, collagen, connective tissue, MMPs, muscle

    We examine how mechanical, hormonal, nutritional and cytokine stimuli change the expression of muscle and connective tissue-forming cells (...

  6. Food Bioactive Factor Lab
    Yoshinori Mine
    Food allergy, food biotech, functional foods, nutraceutical

    Gut Health and Immunity – Food Bioactives

    Small-intestine epithelial cells are the primary site of...

  7. Lipid and Ice Cream Lab
    Alejandro Marangoni
    Doug Goff
    Fats and Oils
    Food/Product Types: Chocolate, Fat
  8. Meat Lab
    Shai Barbut
    Peter Purslow
    Meat and Poultry processing, including animal proteins and meat safety.
    Food/Product Types: Fresh, frozen and deli meats, Sausages...
  9. Packaging and Material Science Lab
    Loong-Tak Lim
    Robert Lencki
    Packaging, plastic, polymer

    The Packaging and Biomaterial Group focuses on research related to advance...

  10. Protein Lab
    Rickey Yada
    protein structure
    Description of our lab

    Food related protein structure-function relationships, food-related enzymes, postharvest...

  11. Sensory evaluation lab
    Lisa Duizer
    Consumer testing, trained panel evaluations
    1) Physiological basis of sensory perception:

    This program investigates in-mouth sensations pertaining to a variety of...