Collaborators

	Jim Bruce, Du Pont Qualicon Jim is a long-term collaborator and regular visitor to the Food safety and Food Microbiology laboratories at Cornell. He has been collaborating with Martin Wiedmann and Kathryn Boor for many years on the development and application of molecular subtyping methods for Listeria monocytogenes.
	Ken Gall Seafood Specialist New York SeaGrant Extension Program SUNY at Stony Brook Ken has collaborated with the Wiedmann and Boor labs on a variety of seafood safety projects since 1997, including projects on understanding and controlling Listeria monocytogenes transmission in seafoods and projects ion the development and application of new detection methods for Vibrio parahaemolyticus. More than 6 years of collaborative research data on L. moncytogenes transmission in Ready-To-Eat seafood processing plants have not only provided broad insight on the ecology and transmission of L. monocytogenes in food processing environments, but have also helped many food processing plants to better control this foodborne pathogen.
	Yrjö Gröhn Cornell University, Section of Epidemiology Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences Yrjö is a key collaborator on the NIH funded "L. monocytogenes clonal groups: Ecology and transmission" grant. His interests lie in the application of statistical modeling approaches to understanding the nature and distribution of diseases affecting both animals and humans.
	Laura Kornstein, New York City Department of Health Laura Kornstein has worked with our laboratory since 1998 to study the diversity of Listeria subtypes among residents of New York City. Laura's research interests are focused on the application of novel molecular methods for the detection, culture, and genetic characterization of foodborne pathogens.
	Kurt Mangione, Claudette Farchione, New York State Department of Agriculture & Markets Kurt, Claudette, and Jon Schermerhorn (now retired!) collaborate with the Food Safety Laboratory by providing isolates of Listeria monocytogenes from foods sampled from retail shelves and from consumer complaints which are then subtyped by ribotyping and PCR-RFLP. This project is establishing long-term strain diversity data for foods distributed in New York state and across the United States.
	Peggy Melton, Yuelian Shen, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services Peggy and Yuelian are providing isolates of Listeria monocytogenes obtained from foods sampled at retail and consumer complaints in Florida. These data are providing an interesting perspective on the strain diversity of Listeria monocytogenes in foods distributed in Florida and across the United States.
	Dale Morse, and Nellie Dumas New York State Department of Health Dale Morse and Nellie Dumas and their colleagues at the New York State Department of Health have been collaborators since 1997 on projects investigating the application of molecular subtyping methods for understanding the clonal structure and virulence differences in Listeria monocytogenes. These collaborations have also contributed to the detection of human listeriosis outbreaks.
	Rasmus Nielsen, Assistant Professor Statistical Genomics Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology Cornell University Rasmus is currently collaborating in many of the evolutionary analyses being done on the virulence and housekeeping genes of Listeria monocytogenes. His main research interests are based on making inferences regarding function and evolution from molecular and genetic data.
	Bradley L. Njaa, DVM, MVSc, DACVP Department of Biomedical Sciences Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Science College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University Brad collaborates with our research group on the development of new animal models to probe the virulence characteristics and strain specific virulence differences in Listeria monocytogenes.
	Conor O'Byrne, University of Aberdeen, Scotland Conor visited the Boor and Wiedmann research groups for a couple days in July 2000. His research interests focus on stress in foodborne pathogens, particularly E. coli 0157:H7 and Listeria monocytogenes with a focus on sigma B dependent stress response mechanisms.
	Ynte Schukken, Cornell University, Quality Milk Promotion Services Ynte is interested in understanding population dynamics of infectious diseases in animal populations. His research focus has been in the application of epidemiological, statistical, and mathematical methods to animal disease research and he is a key collaborator on many projects in our laboratory including the Listeria and Group B Strep projects.
	Seafood Listeria Research Group The Seafood Listeria Research Group is funded through a USDA Food Safety Initiative Grant to develop improved control strategies for Listeria contamination in ready-to-eat food processing environments. Ken Gall, New York Sea Grant Extension Program George Flick, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Tom Rippen, University of Maryland Sea Grant Extension Program Doris Hicks, University of Delaware Sea Grant College Program Mike Moody, Louisiana Sea Grant Extension Program Bob Colette, National Fisheries Institute Jenny Scott, National Food Processors Association
	Qi Sun, Senior Research Associate Computational Biology Service Unit Cornell University Qi played a fundamental role in the development of Pathogen Tracker 2.0. His expertise in programming and biology has facilitated the implementation of new features and general enhancements to this bacterial database.