Degrees

M.S., Food Science, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
B.S., Food Science, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah

Research

Ruofen Liao is an Assistant Specialist in Dr. Erin DiCaprio's group.  She works to improve the safety of California’s food supply by developing and/or improving scale appropriate processing and preservation technologies that are effective at control, removal or inactivation of pathogens and spoilage microorganisms in food; developing strategies to reduce, control or prevent cross contamination during processing, packaging, transportation and /or storage of foods. Areas of emphasis may include any of the following: microbial ecology, food processing or preservation technologies, pathogen detection, quantitative risk assessment.