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Terrorism & Food
 David Lineback - Director, JIFSAN, Joint Institute of Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, University of Maryland
Expertise: Impacts of 9-11 on food safety and food security; Domestic and international policy on issues such as acrylamide; agricultural and food biotechnology; microbiological food safety and foodborne disease; consumer advocate groups/non-governmental organizations/watchdog; sugars/carbohydrates in diet/nutrition
Credentials: Chairman, 12th World Congress of Food Science and Technology (July, 2003) Organizing Committee; Scientific Council Chair of International Union of Food Science & Technology; past president, Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST); former dean of the College of Agriculture, University of Idaho
Contact: (w) (301) 405-8382; (h) (301) 946-7203; lineback@deans.umd.edu
Website: www.jifsan.umd.edu
One-on-one Meeting
 Sam Joseph - Professor, cell biology and molecular genetics, University of Maryland
Expertise: Bioterrorism; pathogens in the food supply; antibiotic resistance. "I have researched organisms in the environment which can cause disease in humans -- their taxonomy, particularly aeromonas, enterococcus and vibrio; their survival in the environment and how they accomplish it (both in natural and manmade environments); how to eliminate pathogens from the environment
(for example in poultry processing and production); the antibiotic resistance (ar) of organisms in the environment and the effect on treatment of infectious pathogens in humans - by direct infection, ar pathogens from foods or transfer of ar from foodborne organisms to human pathogens."
Contact: (301) 405-5452; (lab) (301) 405-5451; sj13@umail.umd.edu
Website: www.life.umd.edu/CBMG/faculty/joseph.htm
Media Lab Visit
 Norman Hansen - Professor, chemistry and biochemistry, University of Maryland
Expertise: Detecting pathogens, protecting food supply from bioterrorism; Antibiotic alternatives for food supply - "I study antimicrobial peptides, which are small proteins that have antibacterial properties. They are used as food preservatives and kill infectious bacteria. With appropriate research, they may be able to replace classical antibiotics, such as penicillin, that are becoming useless because bacteria have become resistant to them. These antimicrobial peptides are also effective against bacterial spores, such as the anthrax-causing Bacillus."
Contact: (301) 405-1847; jh21@umail.umd.edu
Website: www.chem.umd.edu/faculty/biochem/hansen/hansen.htm
 Robert Sprinkle M.D. - Assistant professor, School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland
Expertise: Biosabotage of food supply; prospect of the biosabotage of agriculture by individuals, groups, hostile states or unscrupulously competing corporations; environment; bioethics; human health effects of food production and sterilization methods; food biotechnologies; food choices, food marketing and the health-policy problems implied thereby; environmental effects of production methods in field agriculture, animal husbandry and industrial fishing; the microbial environment as an arbiter of human, animal and plant health and a site of collateral damage in the food and fiber industries; impediments to public-policy innovation
Credentials: Editor-in-Chief, Politics and the Life Sciences
Contact: (w) (301) 405-0184; (h) 301-864-2170; rs236@umail.umd.edu
Website: www.puaf.umd.edu/faculty/people/sprinklem.html ; www.politicsandthelifesciences.org
One-on-one Meeting
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