Medicinal & Aromatic Plants
Open Access
ISSN: 2167-0412
ISSN: 2167-0412
Leonard L Williams
Director CEPHT, Professor of Food Microbiology and Biotechnology
NC Agricultural & Technical State University
Center for Excellence in Post-Harvest Technologies, USA
Dr. Leonard L. Williams, professor and lead scientist for food safety at the Center for Excellence in Post-Harvest Technologies, specializes in microbiology. Williams examines the incidence of foodborne pathogens in fruits and vegetables, including salad crops, using molecular, immunological and epidemiological approaches, with the goal of identifying new strains and their ability to develop resistance to both natural and synthetically derived agents.
Current areas of research focus on determining the genetic diversity and antimicrobial profile of pathogens isolated from food and animal samples, as well as developing a rapid antimicrobial assay to determine the efficacy of natural and synthetic agents.