Post-Doctorals
 Adb El Kader Gebre, Ragab rgebreil@ucdavis.edu 1330D Bainer Hall Research: Development of a new catalytic infrared technology for processing foods (pre-drying, dehydration and blanching) and agricultural products to improve the processing and enerfy efficiencies, product quality, safety and nutritional value. Development of non-chemical disinfestaton method for food products using infrared radiation heating and radiofrequency. Development of standard procedures for rice milling and handling. Develoment of quick cooking method for brown rice using ultrasonic technology. |
 Marshall, Megan mnmarshall@ucdavis.edu 1339 Bainer Hall |
 Reddy, Amitha apreddy@ucdavis.edu 1339 Bainer Hall |
 Simmons, Chris cwsimmons@ucdavis.edu 1339 Bainer Hall Research: My work involves discovery of novel lignocellulolytic enzymes from microbial communities for biofuels applications. Additionally, I investigate the influence of microbial communities on soil heating during solarization to improve control of soil pathogens and weeds. |
 Tiwari, Gopal goptiwari@ucdavis.edu 1305 Bainer Hall |
 Xue, Zhejun zjxue@ucdavis.edu 1308 Bainer Hall Research: The digestive process in the human gastrointestinal (GI) tract is a complex interaction of chemical and mechanical effects. The major goal of my research is to develop a quantitative description of the food digestion process in the GI tract using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation. The computational results can provide accurate and detailed insights into the fluid dynamics behaviours of gastrointestinal contents in the GI tract. Combined with the experimental results of particle disintegration kinetics, it can give a quantitative description of the food digestion process and greatly further our understandings of the bioavailability of nutrients and pharmaceuticals in human GI tract. |