Faculty collaborate with NDSU alumnus on food safety project. Five researchers from NDSU’s Departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) and Biological Sciences have been awarded a three-year, $500,000 research grant by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Achintya Bezbaruah, principal investigator; Dinesh Katti and Kalpana Katti from civil engineering; Marinus Otte and Donna Jacob from biological sciences; and NDSU alumnus Jose Gonzalez from Plant Sciences at South Dakota State University (SDSU) will conduct collaborative research to understand the molecular level interactions of two specific engineered nanoparticles (zinc oxide and carbon nanotubes) with crop plants through in-vivo, in-vitro, genetic, genomic and molecular modeling experiments, and relate the information to food safety.
