Instructors/Lecturers
Main Instructors/Lecturers
Mycotoxin Analysis
Rudolf Krska - (IFA-Tulln, Vienna, Austria) Head of the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Mycotoxin Research and the Center for Analytical Chemistry. He has worked extensively on determination of mycotoxins in cereals.
Chris Maragos - (USDA-ARS-NCAUR, Peoria, IL, USA) Lead Scientist of Novel Materials of the Mycotoxin Research Unit. His researches involve the development of new technologies and materials for the detection of mycotoxins in foods.
Gordon Shephard - (PROMEC-MRC, Tygerberg, South Africa) Chief Specialist Scientist with various experience in the analysis of mycotoxins. He has worked extensively on analytical methods for the fumonisins and their analogues.
Angelo Visconti – (ISPA-CNR, Bari, Italy) Director of ISPA-CNR. Over 25 year experience in mycotoxin analysis in various food matrices. At present, he is engaged in the development of rapid analytical methods based on immunoassays for mycotoxin detection.
Nancy Zabe - (Vicam, Watertown, MA, USA) She has 16 year experience in the analysis of mycotoxins using immunoaffinity chromatography as a clean up for HPLC or fluorometer. She has developed new rapid mycotoxin testing methods for aflatoxins, ochratoxin A and fumonisins.
Fungal Identification
Jens F. Frisvad - (Center for Microbial Biotechnology-DTU, Denmark) Expert in Penicillium and Aspergillus taxonomy, mycotoxins, chemotaxonomy and exometabolomics. He has been working on these areas for 30 years.
Zofia Kozakiewicz - (CABI, Egham, UK) Expert in fungal spoilage particularly on Penicillium and Aspergillus systematics. She has more than 30 year experience on them.
John F. Leslie – (KSU, Manhattan, KA, USA) Head of the Department of Plant Pathology. Over 25 years experience with Fusarium genetics and population analysis.
Antonio F. Logrieco - (ISPA-CNR, Bari, Italy) Research leader. Specialized in epidemiology and taxonomy of mycotoxin producing fungi. Over 20 year experience in the identification of toxigenic Fusarium species.
Cees Waalwijk – (PRI, Wageningen, The Netherlands) He has a long standing experience on genomics in fungi including functional genomics and bioinformatics.
Trainees will be individually assisted in the laboratory by ISPA-CNR staff expert in instrumental and immunochemical analysis of mycotoxins, and in morphological and molecular identification of toxigenic fungi.