George J. Hucker was an American microbiologist who was involved in the founding of the Institute of Food Technologists and was involved in dairy microbiology.
Pascale Cossart is a French bacteriologist who is affiliated with the Pasteur Institute of Paris. She is the foremost authority on Listeria monocytogenes,a deadly and common food-borne pathogen responsible for encephalitis,meningitis,bacteremia,gastroenteritis,and other diseases.
George F. Stewart was an American food scientist who was involved in processing,preservation,chemistry,and microbiology of poultry and egg-based food products. He also became the first president of the International Union of Food Science and Technology (IUFoST) after it was formed at the 1970 conference in Washington,D.C.,from the International Congress of Food Science and Technology.
Bernard J. Liska was an American food scientist who was involved in the creation of the Food Science Department at Purdue University in West Lafayette,Indiana. He also served as president of the Institute of Food Technologists in 1984–85 and was scientific editor of the Journal of Food Science from 1970 to 1981.
Daryl Bert Lund is an American food scientist and engineer who has served in various leadership positions within the Institute of Food Technologists,including President in 1990–1991 and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Food Science from 2003-2012. Lund was named one of 26 innovators in Food Engineering magazine's 75th anniversary edition in September 2003.
Keith H. Steinkraus (1918–2007) was an American food scientist who was well known in food fermentation which led to the growth of soy-based foods. He also was involved in bacterial diseases used in the control of European chafer and Japanese beetles in New York state.
Alice Catherine Evans was an American microbiologist. She became a researcher at the U.S. Department of Agriculture where she investigated bacteriology in milk and cheese. She proved that Bacillus abortus caused the disease brucellosis in both cattle and humans,which led to the pasteurization of milk in the US in 1930. Evans was the first woman president elected by the Society of American Bacteriologists.
Elsa Alina Murano has been the Director of the Norman Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture &Development at Texas A&M University Agriculture &Life Sciences program since 2012. Prior to that,she served as the 23rd President of Texas A&M University from January 3,2008,until her resignation on June 15,2009.
Kathryn Uhrich is Dean of the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences,at The University of California,Riverside,and founder of Polymerix Corporation. She has received many awards for her research and work including the ACS Buck-Whitney Award and the Sioux Award. She was a fellow at both the National Academy of Inventors and the American Chemical Society in 2014.
Lily Young is a distinguished professor of environmental microbiology at Rutgers New Brunswick. She is also a member of the administrative council at Rutgers University. She is the provost of Rutgers New Brunswick. She is a member of the Biotechnology Center for Agriculture and the Environment and has her academic appointment in the Department of Environmental Sciences.
Khem Shahani (1923–2001) was an Indian microbiologist who conducted pioneer research on probiotics.
Nell I. Mondy was an American biochemist known for her expertise regarding the potato. She spent the majority of her profession at Cornell University where in 1953 she earned a PhD in biochemistry and subsequently served as faculty there for nearly fifty years. In 1997,she received the first Elizabeth Fleming Stier Award.
Martha Elizabeth Pollack is an American computer scientist who served as the 14th president of Cornell University from April 2017 to June 2024. From 2013 to 2017,she was the 14th provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at the University of Michigan.
Listeria booriae is a Gram-positive,facultatively anaerobic,nonmotile,non-spore-forming rod-shaped species of bacteria. It is not pathogenic and nonhemolytic. It was discovered in a dairy processing plant in the Northeastern United States,and was first described in 2015. The species name honors "Kathryn Boor,a United States food scientist,for her contribution to the understanding of the biology of Listeria."
Catherine Wright Donnelly is Professor of Nutrition and Food Science at the University of Vermont,and the Editor-in-Chief of The Oxford Companion to Cheese,which won the 2017 James Beard Award for Reference and Scholarship.
Harold Macy (1895–1986) was an American microbiologist,specializing in bacteria and dairy.
Mary E. Lidstrom is a Professor of Microbiology at the University of Washington. She also holds the Frank Jungers Chair of Engineering,in the Department of Chemical Engineering. She currently is a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology,a member of the National Academy of Sciences and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Bacteriology and FEMS Microbial Ecology.
Christopher Brendan Barrett is an American agricultural and development economist. He is the Stephen B. and Janice G. Ashley Professor of Applied Economics and Management and International Professor of Agriculture at Cornell University's Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. Barrett is also the co-editor-in-chief of the journal Food Policy and former captain with the United States Army Reserve. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2022. He is the most cited author of a number of agriculture journals such as American Journal of Agricultural Economics,Food Policy,Journal of Development Studies.
Paula Elaine Cohen is a British-American geneticist who is a professor and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education in the College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University. Her research considers DNA repair mechanisms and the regulation of crossing over during mammalian meiosis. She was awarded the National Down Syndrome Society Charles J. Epstein Down Syndrome Research Award in 2004 and elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2021.
Ann Marie McNamara is an American microbiologist and was formerly Vice President for Food Safety and Quality for the Supply Chain at US Foods. She has received a Distinguished Service Award from the United States Department of Agriculture,and received the International Association for Food Protection Fellow Award in 2012 and Food Safety Award in 2022.
