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Present	Professor, Department of Food Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Food Safety, Detection of mutagens and carcinogens, Microbial food spoilage enzymes, Immuno assays, Fermentation technology and PCR detection and quantitation of E.coli 0157:H7, Listeria monocytogenes, Vibrio parahaemolyticus, and V. vulnificus in seafood

Past Chairman Atlantic Fisheries Technological Conference
Past President Connecticut Valley Chapter of American Society for Microbiology
Past member Edit. Bd. J. Food Biochem
Ed. Bd. J. Food Safety
Present member Ed. Bd. J. Food Protection
Past member NSF Biomedical Ph.D
Fellowship Review Panel, and past member U.S.D.A NRI review Panel

EnvSci 315 Principles of Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology
Food Science 150: The Science of Food
Food Science 723: Advanced Food Microbiology

Department of Food Science

Rm 346 Chenoweth Lab
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01002
Tel:413-545-0187

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Concentration and tracking of Listeria monocytogenes strains in a seafood-processing ...

Journal of Food Protection (2006)

Robert E. Levin, J. Cao, M. Clark, R. Witkowski, et al.

Concentrations of environmental microflora and Listeria monocytogenes were monitored at multiple environmental locations within a seafood-processing facility over the course ...

Incidence and enumeration of Vibrio parahaemolyticus in shellfish from two ...

Food Biotechnology (2006)

Robert E. Levin, S. Lu, B. Liu, J. Cao, et al.

A total of 83 shellfish samples from two local retail sources (A and B) yielded 38 samples positive for the ...

Detection, enumeration, and RAPD analysis of Listeria monocytogenes isolates in ...

Food Biotechnology (2005)

Robert E. Levin, J. Cao, R. Witkowski, H. Lu, et al.

Fish were sampled over a 24-month period from two major supermarket retail outlets in Hadley, Massachusetts, USA, designated A and ...

Effects of primers and Taq polymerase on randomly amplified polymorphic ...

Food Biotechnology (2005)

Robert E. Levin, J. Cao, C. Cromnin and L. McLandsborough

Ninety-nine randomly selected isolates of Listeria monocytogenes obtained during a 5 month sampling period from several processing environment locations in ...

Quantification of Vibrio vulnificus using the polymerase chain reaction

Food Biotechnology (2005)

Robert E. Levin and S. Wang

An efficient procedure was developed for the quantitative PCR detection of Vibrio vulnificus in pure culture. The procedure involved boiling ...

Quantitative detection of Vibrio vulnificus by competitive polymerase chain reaction

Food Biotechnology (2005)

Robert E. Levin and S. Wang

Quantitative detection of V. vulnificus in shellfish via competitive PCR was herein developed. We designed a forward primer, a reverse ...

Vibrio vulnificus, a notably lethal human pathogen derived from seafood ...

Food Biotechnology (2005)

Robert E. Levin

Vibrio vulnificus is presently considered the most infectious and lethal of all human pathogenic vibrios. The organism requires at least ...

Quantitative determination of Vibrio parahaemolyticus by polymerase chain reaction

Food Biotechnology (2004)

Robert E. Levin and S. Wang

A method for quantitative detection of Vibrio parahaemolyticus, based on the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), was developed. Several lysis methods ...

The application of real-time PCR to food and agricultural systems ...

Food Biotechnology (2004)

Robert E. Levin

Real-time PCR (RT-PCR) allows each cycle of DNA amplification to be observed on a computer screen throughout the sequence of ...

Application of random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) and pulsed-field gel ...

Food Biotechnology (2003)

Robert E. Levin

Application of the polymerase chain reaction for detection of Listeria ...

Food Biotechnology (2003)

Robert E. Levin

The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) as applied to the detection of Listeria monocytogenes in foods encompasses a variety of cell ...

Enhanced storage-life of fresh haddock fillets with stabilized sodium chlorite ...

Food Microbiology (2003)

Robert E. Levin, Y. Zhang and H. Lu

A method for effectively extending the storage-life of fresh haddock with Salmide® a stabilized form of redox-buffered sodium chlorite in ...

Influence of caffeine on the repair of mitomycin C induced ...

Food Biotechnology (2003)

Robert E. Levin and J. Kim

Caffeine potentiated MMC induced lethality in Salmonella typhimurium strains proficient in excision and recombinant repair but not in excision or ...

Development of a microslide aglutination assay with the aid if ...

Journal of Microbiological Methods (2002)

Robert E. Levin and A. Abolmaaty

A microslide agglutination assay was developed involving the mixing of 2.5 microl each of antiserum and a cell suspension of ...

Quantitative Detection of Escherichia coli O157:H7 in ground beef ...

Food Microbiology (2002)

Robert E. Levin and J. Guan

A method for quantitative detection of Escherichia coli O157:H7 based on the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was developed. The method ...

Quantitative detection of Escherichia coli O157:H7 in ground beef ...

Food Biotechnology (2002)

Robert E. Levin and J. Guan

A protocol based on immunomagnetic separation (IMS) and competitive polymerase chain reaction (C-PCR) was developed for quantitative detection of Escherichia ...

Quantitative detection of Escherichia coli O157:H7 in ground beef ...

Food Biotechnology (2002)

Robert E. Levin and J. Guan

A quantitative assay for viable Escherichia coli O157:H7 in ground beef based on immunomagnetic separation (IMS) and the polymerase chain ...

Sensitive and rapid detection of Escerichia coli O157:H7 in ...

Food Biotechnology (2002)

Robert E. Levin and J. Guan

A protocol for detection of low numbers of E. coli O157:H7 in ground beef by nested PCR incorporating immunomagnetic separation ...

Development of a new lysis solution for releasing genomic DNA ...

Microbiology (2000)

Robert E. Levin, A. Abolmaaty, C. Vu and J. Oliver

A new lysis solution designated TZ, consisting of 2.0% Triton X-100 plus 2.5 mg sodium azide/ml in 0.1 M Tris-HCl ...

Studies on the growth of Escherichia coli O157:H7 strains ...

Journal of Food Protection (2000)

Robert E. Levin, J. Ferenc, J. Oliver, R. Witkowski, et al.

The objectives of the present report were to examine the ability of 18 strains of Escherichia coli O157:H7 to grow ...