Skills:
Sensory analysis of food (used SIMS 2000), product development (peanut brittle), dairy processing (manufacture of cheese, yogurt, ice-cream, and processed cheese), Differential scanning calorimeter (calculation of Cp, latent heat), Rheometer (measurement of G, G and viscosity), Brookefield viscometer(viscosity measurement), Texture profile analysis (cheese and AMF), basic food analysis methods (proximate), measurement of total solids, osmolality, particle size, polarized light microscopy, Chromatography (HPLC, GC, FPLC), GC-MS, Spectrophotometry (UV-viz and visible), Enzyme Assays and Kinetics ( galactosidase and lipase), ELISA, Estimations of proteins (UV-Viz, Lowry, Bradford, BCA methods), SDS-PAGE, Native gels, Western Blot, Recombinant protein expression, Immobilized enzyme technology, PCR, qPCR, gene cloning, 454 sequencing using QIIME, transposon mutagenesis, basic microbiology methods, Worked in a BSL 2+ facility (Listeria monocytogenes, E coli O157:H7 etc.), HACCP, SQF (A0006293), GMP certifications.