Debabrata Biswas

Research Interests

• Reducing levels of these bacterial pathogens in food-producing animals and prevent the cross contamination in the food processing plants are effective ways to reduce food safety risks for humans.
• Reduction of pre- and post-harvest levels of colonization and contamination with foodborne bacterial pathogens including E. coli 0157, Campylobacter jejuni and Salmonella enterica in foods specifically meat and meat products and development of vaccines that prevent colonization of animals by these enteric pathogens which may reduce human gastrointestinal infections.
• Investigation the role of natural products in control of colonization of zoonotic/foodborne bacterial pathogens in animal guts and mechanisms of their antimicrobial activity/survival ability in the presence of synthetic antibiotics and/or natural antimicrobial components.
• Development of bioactive pre-biotics, probiotics, and/or its combination (synbitics) for alternative source of therapeutic and sub-therapeutic (growth promoter) components for organic and conventional farm animal production and stimulate the growth probiotic and the production of its metabolites by genetically engineered beneficial bacteria.
• Develop the efficient and faster technology to improve the detection of foodborne enteric bacterial pathogens in food products and other polluted materials.