Klaenhammer命名为AAAS研究员

Dr. Todd R. Klaenhammer, distinguished university professor, has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest scientific society and publisher of the journal科学。

Klaenhammer, the William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor in the Department of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences, the Department of Microbiology and the Department of Genetics, is among 531 scientists to be honored as an AAAS fellow in 2009. He will be recognized at the association’s February meeting in San Diego.

Klaenhammer荣获“在生物处理和健康中使用有利地使用的微生物学和乳酸菌基因组的研究和领导的杰出国际贡献。”

Klaenhammer研究了改善乳酸菌的遗传方法，“良好”的细菌用作发酵食品和乳制品中的起始培养和益生菌，如酸奶。他最近的研究努力研究了胃肠道益生菌生存和活性的分子机制，然后使用该信息来开发用于口腔疫苗的活细菌递送系统。Klaenhammer还将东南乳制品研究中心推广，该研究中心开发并应用了以改善的品质加工牛奶及其组件的新技术。