Xiaonan Lu Receives $200K to reduce poultry contamination
Mar 15, 2016
Dr. Xiaonan Lu, Assistant Professor in Food Science, has been awarded a research grant totaling $200,000 over 2 years from Investment Agriculture Foundation of BC along with AAFC Growing Forward 2 program and cash contributions from BC Chicken Marketing Board, BC Sustainable Poultry Farming Group, and a biotechnology company for vaccine design in metro Vancouver.
The main goal of his research project is to screen new antimicrobial compounds and construct engineered Lactobacillus-based vaccines to reduce Campylobacter and Salmonella loads in chicken. Dr. Lu’s research group will use the UBC Avian Research Center at Agassiz to conduct the chicken experiment. This project will develop an effective solution to simultaneously control pathogen contamination on the farm thereby reducing the contamination of poultry products at the retail level in BC and Canada.
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