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Dr. Rodney Holcomb

Dr. Holcomb

Specialization: Agribusiness Economics

Area of Expertise: Value-added agribusiness development, agribusiness marketing and management, consumer demand analysis

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Oklahoma State University
Robert M. Kerr Food & Agricultural Products Center
114 FAPC
Stillwater, OK 74078
405- 744- 6071 405- 744- 6313 rodney.holcomb@okstate.edu

 

Dr. Patricia Rayas Duarte

Specialization: Cereal Science

Area of Expertise: Cereal chemistry and technology

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Oklahoma State University
Robert M. Kerr Food & Agricultural Products Center
107 FAPC
Stillwater, OK 74078
405- 744- 6468 405- 744- 6313

pat.rayas_duarte@okstate.edu

 

 

Dr. Timothy Bowser

Specialization: Food process engineering

Area of Expertise: Food process engineering including cooking, cooling, drying, evaporating, size reduction, materials handling, filling, packaging, cleaning, conceptual design and troubleshooting

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Oklahoma State University
Robert M. Kerr Food & Agricultural Products Center
124 FAPC
Stillwater, OK 74078
405- 744- 6688 405- 744- 6313

bowser@okstate.edu

 


Dr. Danielle Bellmer

Specialization: Food properties engineering

Area of Expertise: Food process engineering, chemical and physical properties of food products, value-added processing

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Oklahoma State University
Robert M. Kerr Food & Agricultural Products Center
108 FAPC
Stillwater, OK 74078
405- 744- 6626 405- 744- 6313

danielle.bellmer@okstate.edu

 


Dr. Peter Muriana

Specialization: Food mircobiology

Area of Expertise: General food microbiology, lactic acid bacteria and food-borne pathogens

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Oklahoma State University
Robert M. Kerr Food & Agricultural Products Center
109 FAPC
Stillwater, OK 74078
405- 744- 5563 405- 744- 6313

peter.muriana@okstate.edu



Dr. Divya Jaroni

Specialization: Food microbiology

Area of Expertise: Pre- and post-harvest food microbiology (food animals and fresh produce), lactic acid bacteria for use as competitive exclusion, and food-borne pathogens particularly E. coli O157:H7; Salmonella spp. and non 0157 STECs

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Oklahoma State University
Robert M. Kerr Food & Agricultural Products Center
112 FAPC
Stillwater, OK 74078
405- 744- 9263 divya.jaroni@okstate.edu


Dr. Ravi Jadeja

Specialization: Food safety

Area of Expertise: Food-borne pathogen identification and control, food safety policies and regulations

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Oklahoma State University
Robert M. Kerr Food & Agricultural Products Center
106 FAPC
Stillwater, OK 74078
405- 744- 3922

ravi.jadeja@okstate.edu


Dr. Niels Maness

Specialization: Post-harvest physiology

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Oklahoma State University
Department of Horticulture & Landscape Architecture
337 Agricultural Hall
Stillwater, OK 74078
405- 744- 5423 405- 744- 9709

niels.maness@okstate.edu


Dr. William McGlynn

Specialization: Horticulture product processing

Area of Expertise: Fruit and vegetable processing and thermal processing

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Oklahoma State University
Robert M. Kerr Food & Agricultural Products Center
112 FAPC
Stillwater, OK 74078
405- 744- 7573 405- 744- 6313

william.mcglynn@okstate.edu


Dr. Barbara Stoecker

Specialization: Human nutrition and metabolism

Area of Expertise: Trace elements, nutrient interactions, international nutrition problems

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Oklahoma State University
421 HES
Stillwater, OK 74078
405- 744- 5040 405- 744- 1357 barbara.stoecker@okstate.edu

 

Dr. Ranjith Ramanathan

Specialization: Muscle food chemist

Area of Expertise: Postmortem meat biochemistry and meat quality, packaging and meat color, role of mitochondria in beef color, and myoglobin and lipid oxidation

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Oklahoma State University
Department of Animal and Food Sciences
104B ANSI
Stillwater, OK 74078
405- 744- 9260

ranjith.ramanathan@okstate.edu


Dr. Deborah VanOverbeke

Specialization: Muscle food science

Area of Expertise: Evaluation of post-harvest management techniques to improve meat quality, prediction of tenderness and palatability, and the effect of management practices on meat yield, quality, palatability and sensory attributes

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Oklahoma State University
Robert M. Kerr Food & Agricultural Products Center
104D ANSI
Stillwater, OK 74078
405- 744- 9262

deb.vanoverbeke@okstate.edu


Dr. Gretchen Mafi

Specialization: Muscle food science

Area of Expertise: Prediction of meat tenderness and palatability, development of value-added meat products, use of new technology to predict quality

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Oklahoma State University
Department of Animal and Food Sciences
104E ANSI
Stillwater, OK 74078
405- 744- 9259

gretchen.mafi@okstate.edu


Dr. Nurhan Dunford

Specialization: Oil/oilseed chemistry

Area of Expertise: Oilseed chemistry, food process engineering, biodiesel

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Oklahoma State University
Robert M. Kerr Food & Agricultural Products Center
103 FAPC
Stillwater, OK 74078
405- 744- 7062 405- 744- 6313

nurhan.dunford@okstate.edu