Daniel Herbert

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. Food Microbiology

Environmental Monitoring Programme:

Assisting QA and sanitation team

- by providing results on time

- in establishing standards and specifications

- by sending daily Listeria results

- by analyzing and providing monthly and periodic Listeria results

Laboratory Food Microbiology:

Microbiological Analysis, Interpretation, and Reporting of Results for raw

material, ingredients, meat, meat products and other foods, waste water and

environmental samples.

E.coli, Coliforms, Enterobacteriaceae, Pseudomonas, Lactic acid bacteria,

Yeast and Mold, TPC, Anaerobic count, Psychrophilic count, Heterotrophic

count, and E.coli O157:H7, Salmonella, Listeria, Campylobacter, Clostridia,

Staphylococcus detection and enumeration using culture, biochemical

methods, PCR, Immuoprecipitation and agglutination

Shelf life studies

Challenge Studies

ELISA for mycotoxins and allergens, screening for antibiotic residue

Test method standardization, training and supervision

Research and problem solving

Participation in proficiency testing programmes and Documentation for

maintaining accreditation status

Verification of equipments for ISO17025 compliance

Maintaining Lab supplies

Assisting QA with sampling plans, providing results on time, establishing

standards and specifications,.

. Medical Microbiology, Tuberculosis Bacteriology, Immunology and

Mycobacteriology

Bacteriology: Microscopy, culture, enumeration, preparation of culture

media, isolation, identification, drug sensitivity testing, virulence

studies, animal model studies, BACTEC

Evaluation of antimicrobial drugs: in culture media, BACTEC system, and in

mice

Immunology: serology, ELISA, monoclonal antibodies, RIA, lymphocyte

transformation test, virulence, vaccination/immunisation, protective

response and delayed type hypersensitivity tests in mice and guinea pigs

Cell culture: lymphocytes, macrophages, hybridoma cell lines

Molecular Biology: Basic training in DNA extraction, enzymatic digestion,

gel electrophoresis, genomic library preparation and screening for

expression

Research: proposals, planning, carrying out, solving problems, analyzing,

interpreting, report writing, publishing, presenting

. Teaching, training and mentoring

Teaching Microbiology to students and laboratory workers, training on a one-

on-one basis and mentoring

. Computer

Word, Excel, PowerPoint

WORK EXPERIENCE

. Microbiology Supervisor, The Food Science and Technology Centre, Maple

Lodge Farms Ltd., 1997 - March 2014.

Responsibilities: Training and Supervising Microbiology analysts,

Analytical work, Interpreting and Reporting results, Assisting QA with

results, sampling plans, data, standards, specifications and problem

solving. Research Projects

. Research Officer (Bacteriology), Tuberculosis Research Centre, Indian

Council of Medical Centre, Chennai, India, 1993 - 1996.

Research Assistant (Bacteriology), Tuberculosis Research Centre, Indian

Council of Medical Centre, Chennai, India, 1982 - 1993.

Responsibilities: Diagnostic bacteriology and immunology of tuberculosis,

training, supervision and research

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS, TRAINING

. M.Sc. Medical Microbiology, University of Madras, India

. Ph.D. Microbiology, University of Madras, India for thesis "Antigenic

cross reactivity in mycobacteria and its relevance to immune response"

. Training in Basic Molecular Biology and DNA Technology, Leicester

University, UK

. Training in Rapid methods in Tuberculosis in level-3 mycobacteriology

laboratory in CDC, Atlanta; BACTEC rapid method for tuberculosis in the

Becton Dickinson Laboratories; and fast-tracking tuberculosis diagnosis

in Albany, New York.

. Introduction to Food Microbiology course, University of Guelph, Ontario

. Short course in Shelf life Studies, Silliker Laboratory

. Workshop on Allergen Labelling

. CALA Training in ISO17025

. Unique course in Leadership Skills

. Member, Canadian Society of Microbiologists

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