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Marlene janes
Professor
Louisiana State University Agricultural Center
USA
Biography
Dr. Marlene Janes began her professional career at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Arkansas in 1994 as a Research Specialist in the department of Food Science and earned her Ph. D. in Food Microbiology/Safety in 2001. Currently, Dr. Janes is a Professor in the School of Nutrition and Food Science, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center. She teaches Food Safety, Food Microbiology and Industrial Microbiology.
Research Interest
Her research focuses on the control, survival and development of rapid methods for concentration and detection of foodborne pathogens that include viruses and bacteria in food products. Dr. Janes’ current research interests include gaining a better understanding of how oysters become contaminate with enteric viruses and to identify more suitable enteric virus indicators or the use of norovirus detection in seawater or oysters as opposed to relying on the current practice of using bacterial indicators only.