Workshop Staff

Workshop Director

Dr. Daniel Y.C. Fung is Professor of Food Science in the Department of Animal Sciences and Industry at Kansas State University. He has gained an international reputation as a lecturer on rapid methods and automation in microbiology at symposia in Sweden, Germany, Great Britain, France, Czechoslovakia, Canada, Israel, Italy, Egypt, Peoples Republic of China, Singapore, Finland, Iceland, Brazil, Thailand, Colombia, Poland, Hungary, Zimbabwe, Chile, Argentina, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Korea, Taiwan and the United States. He has more than 800 publications in journals, books, and proceedings, and is the recipient of the 1997 International Award given by Institute of Food Technologists because of the uniqueness of this workshop series. He is editor of Journal of Rapid Methods and Automation in Microbiology, a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM), Institute of Food Technologists, and International Academy of Food Science and Technology. He presented an invited lecture at Pasteur Institute in Paris during the 100th year commemoration of Pasteur's death in 1995. He won the 2001 Waksman Outstanding Educator Award given by the Society for Industrial Microbiology. Dr. Catherine L. Fung is an honorary founding fellow.

Assistant to the Director

Dr. Beth Ann Crozier-Dodson will coordinate the hands-on laboratory sessions and functions of the workshop. She has taught laboratory workshops in the United States, Mexico, Norway, China, Australia, and other locations.

Visiting Professors

Dr. Millicent C. Goldschmidt, Professor of the Dental Branch, Dental Science Institute, at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, has authored about 250 publications. Her particular expertise in microbiological instrumentation led her to be recognized as an Outstanding Woman in Science in 1985 - 1986, by the Association for Women in Science. She is a Fellow of AAM and Founding Fellow of the workshop.

Dr. J. Stanley Bailey, is a Research Microbiologist with the United States Department of Agriculture, a Fellow of AAM, Silver Medallion Fellow of the workshop, and adjunct professor with the Poultry Science Department at the University of Georgia. He was the secretary of the Microbiology Methods Committee of AOAC and has published more than 450 publications in the areas of poultry microbiology and microbiological methods.