Luisa Cheng has completed her PhD at the University of California, Los Angeles and her Postdoctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley focusing in the pathogenesis of food-borne pathogens. She has joined the Agricultural Research Service in the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 2006 and is currently the Research Leader of the Food-borne Toxin Detection and Prevention Research Unit in the Western Regional Research Center. Her research program focuses on the development of sensitive detection assays for food-borne toxins, the study of biological mechanisms underlying toxin absorption and action and the identification of prevention and therapeutic strategies. Luisa Cheng has completed her PhD at the University of California, Los Angeles and her Postdoctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley focusing in the pathogenesis of food-borne pathogens. She has joined the Agricultural Research Service in the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 2006 and is currently the Research Leader of the Food-borne Toxin Detection and Prevention Research Unit in the Western Regional Research Center. Her research program focuses on the development of sensitive detection assays for food-borne toxins, the study of biological mechanisms underlying toxin absorption and action and the identification of prevention and therapeutic strategies.

plant science and soil science