Report to the Office of the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs

October 2012–January 2013

IFNH Hosts “RU Healthy?–Investing Today for a Healthier Tomorrow”

The New Jersey Institute for Food,

Nutrition, and Health (IFNH) hosted a

capital campaign event, “RU

Healthy?–Investing Today for a

Healthier Tomorrow,” at the Rutgers

Visitor Center on the Busch campus

in Piscataway on October 22, 2012.

The event provided the opportunity

for Rutgers and external stakeholders

to receive an update on the plans

and progress of the IFNH. Founding

Director of the IFNH Peter Gillies, the

Executive Dean of the School of

Environmental and Biological

Sciences Robert M. Goodman, and

the Executive Vice President for

Academic Affairs and Interim Chancellor, Rutgers–New Brunswick Richard Edwards spoke at the

event. They stressed the importance of stakeholders in the success of the institute and moving

the IFNH and its initiative ahead, strengthening its connection to the broader university

community. Read more.

Rutgers Plant Breeder Elwin Orton Inducted into NJ Inventors Hall of Fame

Elwin Orton, professor emeritus of plant biology and pathology at Rutgers, was inducted into the

New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame. Orton, who

was among four Rutgers faculty members to be

honored during the annual awards dinner on

October 18, was credited with “saving the U.S.

dogwood industry” with new strains of hardy,

disease- and pest-resistant hybrid dogwoods

when diseases and insects threatened the native

species of the popular flowering tree. “These

awards cover all of my work so it makes me feel

confident for once in my life that my career as a

plant biologist was successful and I did make an

impact in woody ornamentals,” Orton said. “So I

am very, very pleased. It gives me great pleasure

knowing that millions of people are enjoying my

new dogwoods.” Read more. Elwin Orton with a Venus dogwood tree.

Photo Credit: Wolfgang Eberts.

L-R: Robert M. Goodman, Richard Edwards, and Peter Gillies

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Jim Simon Wins Prize for Scientific Excellence for African Agricultural Research

An internationally recognized expert on horticultural, medicinal and aromatic plants, Jim Simon,

professor in the Department of Plant Biology and Pathology, was awarded a Scientific

Excellence Award by the Board for International Food

and Agricultural Development (BIFAD) during a ceremony

held in conjunction with World Food Prize events in Des

Moines, Iowa, on October 16. Simon, who helps small-

scale farmers in Africa grow and market their produce,

was recognized for “his significant contributions to

improving horticultural crops across the value-chain in

several African countries,” through the USAID Horticultural

Collaborative Support Research Program (CRSP). In 1994,

Simon began collaborating on multiple agricultural

research projects in sub-Saharan Africa and initiated

several small-scale farming initiatives that are bearing fruit

today. He has partnered with groups in the Cameroon,

Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Namibia,

Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia. In

concert with his African colleagues, Simon has trained

blind farmers to raise food and helped them to create

markets for their fresh produce by connecting them to the

high-end hotels nearby. Access to other markets have

followed suit. He has worked extensively with African women farmers to develop markets for their

indigenous crops including teas from hibiscus calyces—unopened flowers—and moringa leaves.

The BIFAD award ceremony was timed to coincide with the 2012 Borlaug Dialogue meetings

and the World Food Prize events held annually in the month of October. Read more.

Chi-Tang Ho Wins Award for Contributions to Flavor Industry

Chi-Tang Ho, professor in the Department of Food Science, was awarded the 2012 Excellence in

Flavor Science Award by the Flavor and Extract

Manufacturers Association (FEMA) at its 43rd Fall Symposium

in Jersey City, NJ, on October 22–24. Upon receiving the

award from Timothy Adams, FEMA’s science advisor, Ho

expressed pride in this latest achievement. “This means a lot

to me, because it means I was recognized by the flavor

industry, and my work is important for the flavor industry.”

Ho has devoted his career to flavor science since

becoming a professor at Rutgers in 1978. He has been

recognized domestically and internationally for his work in

furthering our understanding of the chemical reactions

between amino acids, peptides and proteins with simple

carbohydrates known as the Maillard reactions. An expert on the antioxidant and anti-cancer

properties of natural products, Ho was honored as a 2010 Fellow by the American Chemical

Society. Read more.

Jim Simon, left, receives award from

Brady Deaton, chairman of BIFAD. Photo Credit: Dr. William DeLauder, BIFAD

Chi-Tang Ho, on left, with FEMA’s

Timothy Adams.

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Kay Bidle Wins Prestigious Moore Foundation Award

Rutgers’ marine scientist Kay Bidle, associate professor in the Department of Marine and Coastal

Sciences at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, joined 15 other scientists from

institutions like Harvard, Cal Tech and MIT, to receive a Marine Microbiology

Initiative Investigator Award on December 3. The scientists will share up to $35

million in funding over five years by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to

pursue pioneering research in the field of marine microbial ecology, including

how the trillions of microscopic organisms at the base of the ocean’s food webs

interact with each other and their environment. Funding will go to individual

scientists working on complementary aspects of marine microbial ecology and

representing a variety of fields, including microbiology, oceanography, geochemistry, ecology,

computational modeling and engineering. Bidle plans to use the Moore Foundation funding to

answer a variety of open, fundamental questions about the activity, diversity, and evolutionary

development of innovative cellular, biochemical, and molecular strategies employed by marine

microbes. Read more.

Mark Robson Named Rutgers AAAS Fellow

Mark Robson, professor of entomology and dean of agricultural and urban

programs, was one of five Rutgers professors elevated to the rank of fellow by

the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in

November. The pre-eminent national scientific organization selects fellows

based on their efforts in advancing science or fostering applications considered

scientifically or socially distinguished. Robson’s research has focused on the

interaction of human beings and pesticides, especially in developing countries.

He examines policies that affect pesticide use on a global scale and studies the risk assessment

process as it relates public health and health policy. Joining 52 previous Rutgers fellows, the new

inductees will receive an official certificate and a gold and blue rosette pin Saturday, February

16, at the AAAS Fellows Forum during the 2013 AAAS Annual Meeting in Boston.

Carol Bagnell Explores the Role of Relaxin in Neonatal Cervical Development

Carol Bagnell, chair of the Rutgers Department of Animal Sciences, was a member of the

scientific committee that organized the 6th International Conference on Relaxin and Related

Peptides in Florence, Italy. Bagnell, a longtime researcher on relaxin, chaired

two sessions at the conference and presented “Biology of relaxin and its role in

humans.” Her presentations included studies on the anti-arthritic effects of

relaxin in joint and bone tissues and the importance of nursing and milk-borne

relaxin for female reproductive tract development. Bagnell, a longtime

researcher on relaxin, chaired two sessions at the conference and presented

“Biology of relaxin and its role in humans.” Her presentations included studies

on the anti-arthritic effects of relaxin in joint and bone tissues and the

importance of nursing and milk-borne relaxin for female reproductive tract

development. Bagnell’s laboratory recently discovered that the development of neonatal

cervical tissues is relaxin-sensitive and dependent on breastfeeding from birth. Presented at the

international conference, these findings were published in the September 2012 issue of

Endocrinology. Read more.

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CRSSA assists in Post-Sandy Rapid Assessment of Mid-Atlantic Coast

A week after Superstorm Sandy walloped the Mid-Atlantic shoreline and interior this fall, the

Rutgers Center for Remote Sensing & Spatial Analysis (CRSSA), led by Richard Lathrop, professor

in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, was asked by the American

Littoral Society to assist in a rapid assessment of impacts to coastal beach, dune, salt marsh and

maritime forest habitats. The study was funded by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.

Combining field reporting with mapping from remotely sensed imagery was the only feasible

approach to achieve the goal of characterizing physical damage from Delaware Bay to Long

Island Sound. Read more.

Rutgers Asparagus Breeding Program Wins Patent Award In recognition of their contribution to New Jersey

agriculture for the patent of the “NJ953” male asparagus

hybrid plant, the breeding team of Chee-Kok Chin, a plant

tissue culture researcher and professor in the Department

of Plant Biology and Pathology; Steve Garrison, extension

specialist in horticulture; and John Kinelski, a soils and

plants field technician in the Department of Plant Biology

and Pathology, was selected as a 2012 Patent Award

Winner by the Research & Development Council of New

Jersey. The 2012 honorees were celebrated at the

Council’s 50th Anniversary Celebration & 33rd Edison

Patent Award Ceremony and Reception on November 8

at the Liberty Science Center, home to the nation’s largest

IMAX Theater, where an original film highlighted each

patent and its inventors. Read more.

Example of pre- vs. post-imagery for the Brigantine section of Forsythe National Wildlife

Refuge, NJ, showing high impact with active overwash of sand onto the salt marsh and

several hundred feet of landward migration of the marsh edge.

Steve Garrison and John Kinelski

evaluate numerous Rutgers NJAES

purple and blond green asparagus

breeding lines at Rutgers Agricultural

Research and Extension Center in

Bridgeton, NJ.

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Chinese Professors Visit Rutgers as Part of Agricultural Tour of NJ

On November 28, the Rutgers University Equine Exercise Physiology Laboratory on College Farm

Road opened its doors to a delegation of Chinese agricultural faculty visiting from Beijing. The

delegation consisted of 20 top professors of agriculture in China who vied for the limited spots

available for a two-week tour of several New

Jersey facilities to learn about the state’s

agronomic practices. Part of the visitors’

itinerary included several stops at Rutgers,

including the university’s equine facilities and

demonstration horse farm on the George H.

Cook Campus. At the Equine Exercise

Physiology Laboratory, the delegates learned

about the horse, a top agricultural livestock

and research subject here in New Jersey as

well as the official state animal. The Chinese

delegates spent the morning of their visit to the

George H. Cook Campus experiencing the

various phases of equine research and

learning about the Rutgers Equine Science

Center’s work in pasture and waste management, and horse care. Animal Sciences faculty

members Carey Williams and Kenneth McKeever, who have undertaken a number of equine

physiological studies in their careers, explained the scientific processes of the equine physiology

laboratory. They also performed a demonstration on the treadmill and the Equi-cizer with one of

the horses from Williams’ research lab. Read more.

Celebrating 60th Anniversary of Selman Waksman’s Nobel Prize

On December 12, the Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology hosted a symposium to

honor the 60th anniversary of Selman Waksman being awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or

Medicine. “Antibiotics–Soil’s Microbial Miracles,” a day-long symposium

explored how antibiotics became a game-changer in modern

medicine, culminating with the opening of the Waksman Museum at the

site of the original Rutgers streptomycin lab. Sixty years ago, Waksman

was awarded the Nobel Prize for "ingenious, systematic and successful

studies of the soil microbes," which led to the discovery of streptomycin,

the first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis as well as the pathogens

responsible for cholera, typhoid, bubonic plague (Black Death),

relapsing fever, typhoid and tularemia. Graduate students Albert Schatz

and Elizabeth Bugie, along with Waksman, discovered streptomycin in

the 1940s while performing research on soil microbes in a basement lab

in an administration building, now Martin Hall, on the George H. Cook

Campus of Rutgers. As a result of the research on antibiotics by

Waksman and others at Rutgers, the American Chemical Society

honored the university by designating the lab as a National Historic

Chemical Landmark. In addition, the American Society for Microbiology

designated Rutgers the birthplace of soil microbiology in the U.S.

Ken McKeever, left, and Carey Williams, back to

camera, welcome Chinese delegates to the

equine facilities. Photo credit: Anne Molnar, Equine

Science Center

Selman Waksman

on Time magazine

cover in 1949.

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Rutgers Collaborates on Obesity Conference On December 11, several national and statewide speakers presented their latest research and

innovative techniques to battle the obesity epidemic and outline important next steps for New

Jersey at a one-day conference that addressed obesity prevention. Rutgers Department of

Family and Community Health Services (FCHS) and the New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutrition

and Health (IFNH) at Rutgers collaborated

with Shaping NJ, a unit of the New Jersey

Department of Health; the New Jersey

Partnership for Healthy Kids/NJ YMCA State

Alliance; and the Robert Wood Johnson

Foundation to sponsor this important

conference, held at the East Brunswick Hilton.

During the past four decades, obesity rates

have soared among all age groups,

increasing more than fourfold among children

ages six to 11. This rising tide of obesity is a real

threat to New Jersey. Over 23% of the state’s

adults are obese and over 10% of all children

are obese. More seriously, over 17% of New

Jersey’s toddlers (age 2–4 years) are obese,

putting the Garden State among the 10 worst

states for that demographic group. The

conference is geared towards “on-the-ground” professionals and individuals who can

implement critical recommendations to reduce obesity, including health educators, health care

providers, dieticians, teachers, school nurses, food service providers, PE teachers, early care

educators, and parents.

IMCS and Rutgers Digital Film Making Crew Team Up for “Antarctic Quest”

Rutgers University Film Bureau is partnering with the Rutgers Institute for Marine and Coast

Sciences to create a multi-tiered

documentary film project called Antarctic

Quest: Racing to Understand a Changing

Planet, featuring the transformative science

of the National Science Foundation’s Long

Term Ecological Research (LTER) Project at

Palmer Station in the West Antarctic

Peninsula. The LTER is headed by Rutgers

marine scientist Oscar Schofield, who is

accompanied by Rutgers film bureau

director Dena Seidel and cinematographer

Chris Linder. The research and film teams

arrived at Palmer Station on January 4 and

their adventures are being documented in

the Antarctic Quest Blog. Read more.

Dena Seidel interviewing Reide Corbett and

graduate student Leigha Peterson behind Palmer

Station in the Antarctic.

L-R: Kathleen Morgan, chair, FCHS; Jasmine Hall

Ratliff of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; and

Peter Gillies, founding director, IFNH at the 2010

obesity conference at Cook Campus Center.

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Joachim Messing Wins Wolf Prize for Revolutionizing Agriculture

Joachim Messing, among the world’s top experts in molecular genetics, became famous for

developing a genetic engineering technique used in laboratories to

create plants that have produced disease-resistant crops

considered vital to feeding the world’s population. Instead of

cashing in on his discovery, he gave this scientific blueprint – which

revolutionized agriculture and helped to crack the genetic code of

plants like rice and corn – away for free to his fellow scientists around

the world. For his contribution to humanity, Messing has been

recognized by the Wolf Foundation of Israel and awarded the 2013

Wolf Prize in Agriculture. The Wolf Prize honors scientists and artists

whose “achievements are in the interest of mankind and friendly

relations among peoples.” Messing was nominated for the Wolf Prize

by Executive Dean of the School of Environmental and Biological

Sciences Robert M. Goodman. Read more.

Fred Grassle Wins Japan Prize for Work that Helped Unlock Ocean's Mysteries

In January, for his decades of work improving knowledge of ocean life, Fred Grassle, emeritus

professor of marine sciences, was awarded the 2013 Japan Prize,

which will be accepted on his behalf in ceremonies in Tokyo in April

by Paul Snelgrove, a former graduate student and a professor at

Memorial University in Newfoundland. The prestigious award

bestowed by the Japan Prize Foundation, honors work in scientific

fields not usually recognized by the Nobel Prize. Grassle’s work has

proved vital to understanding marine life and has affected

decisions about ocean conservation. After developing a theory to

explain that the ocean bottom consists of a patchwork of

interconnected environments, each with a unique set of organisms.

The Rutgers professor emeritus of marine science and founding

director of the Rutgers Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences led

a 10-year-effort to create a Census of Marine Life. Working with

2,700 scientists in 80 countries, Grassle led the effort to catalog

everything living in the ocean, its abundance and location. The Census of Marine Life

documented more than 1,000 new species -- an invaluable resource to those interested in

everything from commercial fisheries to deep-sea mining. An estimated 5,000 more new species

sit in jars around the world awaiting description. Read more.

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A complete list of grants received can be found here.

NJ Climate Adaptation Alliance Receives Grant from The Kresge Foundation

The New Jersey Climate Adaptation Alliance (NJCAA), an initiative of the School of

Environmental and Biological Sciences and the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and

Public Policy is the recipient of a two-year award in the amount of $399,973 from The Kresge

Foundation. The NJCAA will study the impacts of precipitation, temperature, storm surge, sea-

level rise, drought, inland flooding and temperature extremes on six targeted sectors:

agriculture, built infrastructure, coastal communities, the natural environment, public health and

society, and water resources. Read more.

Gediminas Mainelis Wins NSF Environmental Health and Safety Grant

Gediminas Mainelis, associate professor in the Department of

Environmental Sciences at SEBS, and co-investigator KiBum Lee, assistant

professor in the Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology at the

School of Arts and Sciences, have been awarded a National Science

Foundation (NSF) Health and Environmental Safety of Nanotechnology

grant of $299,773 to explore consumer exposure to airborne nanoparticles

released from nanotechnology-based clothing. There is growing concern

about human exposure to nanoparticles and their toxicity related to the

ever-increasing number of consumer products that incorporate

engineered nanomaterials. This new NSF grant will fund the investigation into nanotechnology-

based clothing and measure the potential exposures and burden to the human respiratory

system. Researchers will use special mannequins to simulate walking, running and handling of

nano-based clothing in order to determine how relevant human exposures occur, the

characteristics of the released nanoparticles and quantify the inhalation exposures for

toxicological and epidemiological studies and risk assessment.

$1.2 Million Grant to Engage Citizen Scientists

Rebecca Jordan, associate professor in the departments of Ecology,

Evolution & Natural Resources and Human Ecology at the School of

Environmental and Biological Sciences is the principal investigator of a $1.2

million National Science Foundation Cyberlearning grant to engage citizen

scientists in an online, collaborative, model-based learning program. The

project is titled “Sustaining ecological communities through citizen science

and online collaboration.” The project will use a series of web-based

modeling and social media tools to engage participants in authentic science.

This includes making field observations, engaging in collaborative discussions,

graphically representing data, and modeling ecological systems. The goal of these efforts is to

allow participants to engage in open-space land management. Read more.

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C. Rodriguez-Saona PI (Entomology), T. Leskey, and A. Nielsen. USDA-PMAP. 2012-2014 An

Integrated Multi-Tactic Approach for Managing Native Weevil Pests of Multiple U.S. Fruit Crops.

$200,000

Alan Robock (Environmental Sciences) NSF, CBET-1240507, “What are Sustainable Climate-Risk

Management Strategies?” September 24, 2012 – September 23, 2017, $11,910,966. (Klaus Keller,

Penn State University, P.I.; $399,900 is Rutgers portion)

Hugo K. Dooner (Plant Biology and Pathology) received award totaling $383,348.00 from the

National Science Foundation (NSF) for project titled “TRPGR: New reverse genetics resources for

maize: production and indexing using next-generation sequencing.” NSF award grant number

DBI-0929350.

Nilgun Tumer (Plant Biology and Pathology) received a two year award totaling $130,000.00

from the United States Department of Agriculture – Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) for

project titled “A genome-wide screen to identify novel genes for Fusarium Head Blight (FHB)

resistance.”

Brooks, WR, Lockwood, JL (Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources) and Jordan, RC (Human

Ecology). 2012. Tropical paradox: a multi-scale analysis of the invasion paradox within Miami

Rock Ridge tropical hardwood hammocks. Biological Invasions. doi: 10.1007/s10530-012-0340-8.

Gediminas Mainelis (Environmental Sciences) became editor of Aerosol and Air Quality

Research, a peer-reviewed journal.

Struwe, Lena (Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources), Shasha Eisenman, and David Zaurov,

eds. 2012. Medicinal Plants of Central Asia: Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. Springer-Verlag.

Koppenhöfer A.M. (Entomology), Klein M.G. 2012. Microbial control of turfgrass insects. In:

Handbook of Turfgrass Insect pests, 2nd ed., R.L. Brandenburg, C.A. Freeman C.A., Eds., 93-99.

Entomol. Soc. Am., Lanham, MD.

Heller P.R., Koppenhöfer A.M. (Entomology) 2012. Asiatic garden beetle. In: Handbook of

Turfgrass Insect pests, 2nd ed. (R.L. Brandenburg, M.G. Villani, C.A. Freeman C.A., Eds.), pp. 13-

16. Entomol. Soc. Am., Lanham, MD.

Farajollahi A. (Entomology) Healy SP, Unlu I, Gaugler R, Fonseca DM. 2012. Effectiveness of ultra-

low volume nighttime applications of an adulticide against diurnal Aedes albopictus, a critical

vector of dengue and chikungunya viruses. PLoS One 11. e49281.

Carle, F. L. (Entomology) 2012. A new Epiophlebia (Odonata: Epiophlebioidea) from China with

a review of epiophlebian taxonomy, life history, and biogeography. Arthropod Systematics and

Phylogeny

70(2): 3-11.

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Keyghobadi N, Koscinski D, Weintraub JD, Fonseca DM. (Entomology). 2012. Historical specimens

reveal past relationships and current conservation status of populations in a declining species:

the regal fritillary butterfly. Insect Conservation and Diversity. 10.1111/j.1752-4598.2012.00208.x.

Bartlett-Healy K, Unlu I, Obenaeur P, Hughes, Healy S, Crepeau T, Farajollahi A(Entomology),

Kesavaraju B, Fonseca DM (Entomology), Schoeler, Gaugler R(Entomology) , and Strickman D.

2012. Larval habitat utilization and community dynamics of Aedes albopictus and Aedes

japonicus japonicus (Diptera: Culicidae) in urban, suburban, and rural areas of northeastern

USA. Journal of Medical Entomology 49:813-24.

Koppenhöfer A.M. (Entomology), Ebssa L., Fuzy E.M. 2013. Storage temperature and duration

affect Steinernema scarabaei dispersal and attraction, virulence, and infectivity to a white grub

host. J. Invertebr. Pathol. 112, 129-137.

Leskey, T.C., Hamilton, G.C., Nielsen, A.L., Polk, D., Rodriguez-Saona C. (Entomology), Bergh J.C.,

Herbert A., Kuhar, T., Pfeiffer, D., Dively, G., Hooks, C., Raupp, M., Shrewsbury, P., Krawczyk, G.,

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S.E. 2012. Pest status of the brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys (Stål) in the USA.

Outlooks in Pest Management 23: 218-226.

May M. L. (Entomology). 2012. A critical overview of progress in studies of migration of

dragonflies (Odonata:Anisoptera), with emphasis on North America. Journal of Insect

Conservation. doi 10.1007/s10841-012-9540-x.

Mogi M, Armbruster P, Fonseca DM.(Entomology).2012. Analyses of the northern distribution limit

of Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) with a simple thermal index. Journal of Medical

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Strickman D, Fonseca DM. (Entomology). 2012. Autogeny in Culex pipiens complex mosquitoes

from the San Francisco Bay Area. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 87(4):719-

26.

Shepard D, Halasa Y, Wittenberg E, Fonseca DM, Farajollahi A, Healy S, Gaugler R (Entomology),

Strickman D, Clark G. 2012. Willingness-to-pay for an Area-wide pest management program to

control the Asian tiger mosquito in New Jersey. Journal of the American Mosquito Control

Association 28(3):225-236.

Versteirt V, De Clercq EM, Fonseca DM (Entomology), Pecor J, Schaffner F, Coosemans M, Van

Bortel W. 2012. Bionomics of the established exotic mosquito species Aedes koreicus in Belgium,

Europe. Journal of Medical Entomology 49(6): 1226-1232.

Versteirt V, Pecor J, Fonseca DM (Entomology), Coosemans M, Bortel WV. 2012. Confirmation of

Aedes koreicus (Diptera: Culicidae) in Belgium and description of morphological differences

between Korean and Belgian specimens validated by molecular identification. Zootaxa.

3191:21-32.

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Wang, C. (Entomology), L. Lu, and M. Xu. 2012. Carbon dioxide fumigation for control of bed

bugs. Journal of Medical Entomology 49: 1076-1083.

Zhong, Ying (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Peng, Pingan (Chinese Academy of Sciences),

and Huang, Weilin (Environmental Sciences). 2012. Transformation of tetrabromobisphenol A in

the presence of different solvents and metals. Chemosphere 87(10): 1141-1148.

Nazarenko, N., Zhen, H., Han, T., (Environmental Sciences) Lioy, P.J. (UMDNJ-EOHSI), and

Mainelis, G. (Environmental Sciences). 2012. Nanomaterial Inhalation Exposure from

Nanotechnology-based Cosmetic Powders: a Quantitative Assessment. Journal of Nanoparticle

Research 14:1229DOI: 10.1007/s11051-012-1229-2.

Einstein, S.A. (UMDNJ-EOHSI), Yu, C.-H. (NUY), Mainelis, G. (Environmental Sciences), Chen, L.C.

(NYU), Weisel, C.P., and Lioy, P.J. (UMDNJ-EOHSI). 2012. Design and validation of a passive

deposition sampler. Journal of Environmental Monitoring 14(9): 2411- 2420.

Nazarenko, Y., Zhen, H., Han, T. (Environmental Sciences), Lioy, P.J. (UMDNJ-EOHSI), and Mainelis,

G. (Environmental Sciences). 2012. Potential for exposure to engineered nanoparticles from

nanotechnology-based cosmetic powders. Environmental Health Perspectives 120:885-892.

Reinfelder, J.R. (Environmental Sciences) (2012) Carbon dioxide regulation of nitrogen and

phosphorus in four species of marine phytoplankton. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 466: 57–67.

Robock, Alan (Environmental Sciences) and Owen B. Toon. 2012. Self-assured destruction: The

climate impacts of nuclear war, Bull. Atomic Sci. 68(5), 66-74. doi:10.1177/0096340212459127.

Schmidt, Anja, Thorvaldur Thordarson, Luke Oman, Alan Robock (Environmental Sciences), and

Stephen Self. 2012. The 1783-1784 CE Laki eruption produced stratospheric injection and long-

lived climate impacts. J. Geophys. Res. doi:10.1029/2012JD018414. In press.

Vandamm, J.P, Li, D. Harris, L.J., Schaffner, D.W (Food Science), and M. D. Danyluk. 2013. Fate of

Escherichi coli O157:H7, Listeria monocytogenes, and Salmonella on fresh-cut celery. Food

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Harris, L. J., J. Bender, E. A. Bihn, T. Blessington, M. D. Danyluk, P. Delaquis, L. Goodridge, A. M.

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2012. a framework for developing research protocols for evaluation of microbial hazards and

controls during production that pertain to the quality of agricultural water contacting fresh

produce that may be consumed raw. J. Food Protection 75:2251-2273.

Boyce, J.M., DuPont, H.L., Massaro, J., Sack, D., and D. W. Schaffner (Food Science). 2012. An

expert panel report of a proposed scientific model demonstrating the effectiveness of

antibacterial handwash products. American Journal of Infection Control 40: 742-749.

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Cabras T, Melis M, Castagnola M, Tepper BJ (Food Science), Messana S, Barbarossa IT. Specific

salivary basic proline-rich proteins influence sensitivity to 6-n-propylthiouracil (PROP) in humans.

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Pirastu N, Robino A, Lanzara C, Athanasakis E, Esposito L, Tepper BJ (Food Science), Gasparini P.

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6-n-propylthiouracil (PROP) super-tasters as compared to non-tasters during a lifestyle

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Rogers, M.A. (Food Science), Abraham, S., Bodondics, F., and Weiss, R.G. 2012. Positional

Isomers of Hydroxyoctadecanoic Acid Molecular Gels and Dispersions Influence Crystallization

Kinetics and Activation Energies. Crystal Growth & Design 12, 5497-5504.

Gao, J., Wu, S., and Rogers, M.A. (Food Science). 2012. Harnessing hansen solubility parameters

to predict organogel formation. Journal of Materials Chemistry 22, 12651-12658.

Abraham, S., Lan, Y., Lam, R.S.H., Grahame, D.A.S., Kim, J.J.H., Weiss, R.G., and Rogers,

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