Food Science Alumna Places 2nd at Poster Competition
Aug 27, 2015
Congratulations to Jovana Kovacevic, a graduate of our Food Science doctoral program, who won 2nd place in the International Association for Food Protection’s J. Mac Geopfert Developing Scientist Competition, this July, in Portland, Oregon.
Jovana’s poster was titled: “emrE Gene Located on the Listeria Genomic Island 1 Encodes for an Efflux Pump That Contributes to Listeria monocytogenes Tolerance to Quaternary Ammonium Compounds” (https://iafp.confex.com/iafp/2015/webprogram/Paper9098.html).
Jovana credits her PhD supervisor, Dr. David Kitts, as being instrumental to her success.