Bruce Applegate

Title:

Assistant Professor (Food Science)

PhD Granting Institution:

University of Tennessee

Contact:

Email Address: applegate@purdue.edu
Office Phone: 765-496-7920

Primary Training Group:

Microbiology, Immunnology, and Infectious Diseases

Research Areas:

My research interests include detection of viable foodborne pathogens using bateriophage, automated extraction of nucleic acids from various matrices, enumeration of microorganisms using quantitative PCR, the use of bioreporters in bioelectronics, metabolic engineering, detection of problematic microorganisms in industrial environments, construction of recombinant bacterial strains to rapidly evaluate antimicrobial products, and microbial ecology.