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Min-Wen Cheng completed her
B.S. in Plant Pathology from National Taiwan University in 2002.
After that, she worked in Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology,
Academia Sinica in Taiwan as a research assistant for one year. Her
research focused on understanding the response of
Agrobacterium-plant interaction at the molecular level. She came to
Purdue University in 2003 and finished her M.S. in Botany and Plant
Pathology Department in 2005. She joined Dr. Hamaker’s group in
2006 as a Ph.D. student. Her Ph.D. project is on better
understanding the relationship between starch fine structure, starch
degradation products, and digestion property. |
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Areum Chun
received her B.S. degree in Plant Science and M.S. degree in Crop
Science from Seoul National University, the Republic of Korea. She
works as a research scientist at National Institute of Crop Science,
Rural Development Administration in Korea. She is also a Ph.D.
student in Seoul National University and joined Dr. Hamaker’s group
as a visiting scholar with a focus on the effect of starch structure
on the quality of rice in October 2007. |
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Amandeep Kaur is a veterinary
graduate who pursued her Bachelors from Punjab Agricultural
University, India. She worked on verotoxigenic Escherichia coli
during her Masters with epidemiology and preventive veterinary
medicine as her major and veterinary medicine as her minor fields
respectively. After being awarded Ross Fellowship, she joined Dr.
Hamaker’s group as a Ph. D. student in August 2007. The focus of her
research will be on colonic health and dietary fiber. |
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Lisa Lamothe received her B.S.
degree in agroindustrial engineering from Zamorano University in
Honduras, where her research investigated the development of lactose
crystallization in two “dulce de leche” formulations with different
total solids content. She is currently pursuing her M.S. degree
working with Dr. Hamaker’s group and her research focuses is on the
development of screening methods for breeder selection popcorn
lines. |
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Fatma Mohey El-Din earned her
PhD in Cereal Chemistry from Cairo University, Egypt (2004). She is
working as a Researcher in the Department of Food Science at the
National Research Center, Egypt. She joined Dr. Hamaker’s laboratory
as a Visiting Researcher for one year, from August 2006 –August
2007. Presently, She is holding a Postdoctoral Research
Associate position, started from September, 2007-until now. Her
current work focuses on exploration on water-holding biopolymer
scaffolds to create nutritious snacks. |
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Dave Petros
graduated
from Purdue with a BSc in Biology and a M.Sc in Biochemistry.
His thesis was how site-Directed Mutagenesis Affects the
Properties of DNA-Binding Proteins. He currently works in
Dr. Hamaker's lab as a research assistant using molecular
techniques to study sorghum allergens.
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Devin
Rose received
his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Food Science from
Brigham
Young
University. His M.S. research
involved studying the storage properties of whole wheat and white
flours. In 2005, he
was awarded the AOCS Analytical Division student award for his
work with lipase in wheat. He
joined Dr. Hamaker’s group in pursuit of a Ph. D. degree with a
focus on dietary fiber chemistry in August 2005. |
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Pinthip Rumpagaporn
earned B.S. and M.S. degrees from Department of Food Science and
Technology, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand and presently is
a Ph.D. student in the same department. She will be a faculty member
of Kasetsart University after graduation. With support of the
Thailand Commission on Higher Education, she is currently conducting
her thesis research in Dr. Hamaker’s laboratory from March 2006
until February 2007. Pinthip will continue as a Ph.D. student in the
Whistler Center, with research focus on resistant starch
prepared by debranching of waxy rice starch. |
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Xinyu Shen
received her B.S. and M.S. in Food Science and Technology from
Jiangnan University (former Southern Yangtze University and Wuxi
University of Light Industry) in 2002 and 2005 respectively. Her
M.S. research involved studying the lipid and protein extraction
from tomato seeds and their functional and structural properties. In
Aug. 2005, she came to Purdue in pursuit of a Ph.D. degree in Food
Science and joined Dr. Hamaker’s group in 2007. Her Ph.D. project
now focused on the structure of amylopectin. |
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Like Yan
graduated from Shanghai University of Science and Technology,
Shanghai with a B.S. in Food Science and Technology, and from Iowa
State University with an M.S. Food Science. Her thesis was on Shelf
life of toasted soyflakes and their application in breadmaking, tofu
color prediction from the soybeans and soyflakes color. Like also
received an M.S. in Nutrition from Iowa State University, Ames with
her thesis being on Bioefficacy of beta-carotene in lutein-free lut2
leaves compared with wild-type Arabidopsis leaves fed to gerbils.
She joined Dr. Hamaker’s lab for her PhD. And is doing research on
slow digestible starch and health. |
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