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Dr. Hamaker's Staff

                                                                                                                                                     

 

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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