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Castell-Perez, Elena

Elena Castell-Perez

Professor
Office:  
Scoates Hall 303G
Email:  
Phone:  
979-862-7645
Elena Castell-Perez's Website

Education

Undergraduate Education
B.S., Campinas State University, Food Engineering, 1980
Graduate Education
M.S., Michigan State University, Agricultural Engineering, 1984
Ph.D., Michigan State University, Agricultural Engineering, 1990

Areas of Expertise

  • Characterization of food and biological materials
  • Biomass pretreatments for bioenergy
  • Food rheology
  • Smart packaging systems
  • Food safety technologies including irradiation and active packaging.

Selected Publications

  1. Puerta-Gomez*,A.F, Moreira, R.G., Kim J., and Castell-Perez, M.E.  2012. “Comparison of growth rates of Escherichia Coli spp. and Salmonella Typhimurium LT2 in baby spinach leaves under slow cooling”. Food Control, accepted May 2012.http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foodcont.2012.05.070.
  2. R.G. Moreira, A. F. Puerta-Gomez*, J. Kim, and E. Castell-Perez. 2012. Factors affecting radiation D-values (D10) of an Escherichia coli cocktail and Salmonella typhimurium LT2 inoculated in fresh produce.  Journal of Food Science. doi: 10.1111/j.1750-3841.2011.02603
  3. Brasil, I.M, Gomes, C., Puerta-Gomez,* A, Castell-Perez, M.E, Moreira, R.G. 2012. Polysaccharide-based multilayered antimicrobial edible coating enhances quality of fresh-cut papaya, LWT – Food Science and Technology (2012), doi: 10.1016/j.lwt.2012.01.005
  4. Gomes, C.; Castell-Perez, M. E.; Chimbombi*, E.; Karagoz*, I.; Hare, B.; Liang, Y-L; Sue, H-J.; Sherman, P.; Dunne, P.; Wright, A. O.; Yang, T. 2012. Quality of olive-oil 1 reformulated MRE entrée. Lebensmittel-Wissenschaft und-Technologie/Food Science and Technology. Volume 45, Issue 2, 191-197.http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lwt.2011.09.005
  5. Gomes, C.; Moreira, R. G.; Castell-Perez, E. 2011. Microencapsulated antimicrobial compounds as a means to enhance electron beam irradiation treatment of fresh produce. Journal of Food Science. 76,6, E479-E488. DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-3841.2011.02264.x
  6. Fang, A., Castell-Perez, E, Puerta-Gomez*, A, Zhou, S. and Sowers, J. 2010. Lapping of Polycrystalline Diamond Compact (PDC). Advanced Materials Research Vols. 126-128 (2010) pp 469-474. doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.126-128.469
  7. Chimbombi*, E., Kim, J., Moreira, R.G., Castell-Perez, M. E. 2010. Prediction of targeted Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium inactivation in fresh-cut cantaloupe (Cucumis melo L.)  using electron beam irradiation. Journal of Food Engineering. 103 (4), 409-416. DOI:10.1016/j.jfoodeng.2010.11.011.
  8. Kim, J., Moreira, R.G., Castell-Perez, M.E. 2010. Simulation of pathogen inactivation in whole and fresh-cut cantaloupe (Cucumis melo) using electron beam treatment.Journal of Food Engineering,97(3), 425-433.http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jfoodeng.2009.10.038
  9. Carmen Gomes, Paulo Da Silva, Rosana G. Moreira, Elena Castell-Perez, E. Ann Ellis, Michael Pendleton. 2009. Understanding E. coli internalization in lettuce leaves for optimization of irradiation treatment. International Journal of Food Microbiology,135 238–247. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2009.08.026.
  10. Carmen Gomes, M. Elena Castell-Perez, Ezekiel Chimbombi*, Dazhi Sun, Jia (Daniel) Liu,  Hung-Jue Sue, Peter Sherman, Patrick Dunne, and Alan O. Wright. 2009. Effect of Oxygen Absorbing Packaging on the Shelf life of a Liquid-based Component of Military Operational Rations. Journal of Food Science 74(4), E167-E176. DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-3841.2009.01120.x