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Dr. Bhunia is the head of Molecular Food Microbiology laboratory at Purdue University. He is a leading scientist in the area of food microbiology and food safety. His research includes understanding the molecular mechanism of host-pathogen interaction in intestinal epithelial cells during intestinal phase of infection in cell culture and animal models, strategies to prevent or eliminate enteric pathogen colonization in the gastrointestinal tract utilizing probiotic bacteria and rapid detection and molecular characterization of bacterial strains. Dr. Bhunia is a University faculty scholar and received numerous national and international awards and honors.

Dr. Hamaker is an internationally known researcher in the area of food science and nutrition from Purdue University. He is considered as an authority in cereal science, prebiotics and dietary fiber research world over. His research covers a broad spectrum of area which include carbohydrates and health, influence of dietary fiber as prebotics on inflammatory bowel disease and colon cancer, the importance of the intestinal fermentation pattern, cereal starch and protein structure-function relationships, cereal chemistry and processing. Dr. Hamaker is a distinguished chair professor and received numerous national and international awards and honors.

Dr. Merkel is the Course Director of Microbiology and Immunology & General Pathology at Indiana University School of Medicine – Fort Wayne. He is actively engaged in cellular and clinical microbiology research and his research area includes in-vitro evaluation of tissue-microorganism interaction with a
broad focus on clinical infectious diseases.

Dr. Blumenthal is the Professor of Immunology at IPFW. Dr. Blumenthal’s area of expertise includes Immunology and Microbiology. His interest is to elucidate the biochemical (kinase and proteolytic activity) alterations in the murine immune system in the animal models such as dietary restriction and aging, hypertension, as well as the isolation and characterization of the immune cell type exhibiting changes and correlation of these changes with immune dysfunction.

Dr. Visalli is the Professor of Molecular Biology at IPFW. Dr. Visalli has an active research interest in DNA packaging, structural proteins, identifying genes involved in virulence, and analysis of amino acid sequences involved in the targeting of proteins to specific locations.