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Education

• PhD: University of California, Davis, Microbiology
• MS: University of Illinois, Food Science
• BS: University of Illinois, Microbiology

Courses Taught

• FDSC 4124: Food Microbiology
• FDSC 5703: Fermented Foods

Research Emphasis

Food Safety and Microbiology
Rapid methods to detect pathogens in foods using monoclonal antibody and nucleic acid probes; Listeria monocytogenes; in vitro virulence assays and antibiotic resistance of food borne pathogens; destruction/control of pathogens with heat and chemicals.

Publications

• Heo, Seok Andy , R. Nannapaneni, R. Story and M.G. Johnson. 2007. Characterization of new hybridoma clones producing monoclonal antibodies reactive against both live and heat-killed Listeria monocytogenes.  J. Food Sci 72(no1):pp M 1- M8 Jan-Feb 2007 issue.
  
• Pradham, A. , J. Marcy, M.G. Johnson, M Tamplin and Y. Li. 2007.  Pathogen kinetics and heat and mass transfer based predictive models for Listeria innocua in irregular shaped poultry products during thermal processing  J. Food Protect. 70(No. 3): 607-615.
  
• Sivarooban, T.,  N.S. Hettiarachchy and M.G. Johnson.  2007. Inhibition of L. monocytogenes using with nisin with and grape seed extract turkey frankfurters stored at 4 and 10 0C.  J. Food Protect. 70(No.4):1017-1020.
  
• Yildirim, Z., M. Yildriam,  & M.G. Johnson. 2007. Effects Of Bifidocin B and Lactococcin R on Growth Of Listeria monocytogenes and Bacillus  cereus on Sterile Chicken Breast. Journal of Food Safety, 27:373-385.
  
• Yildirim, Z., M. Yildirim and M.G. Johnson. 2007. Effects of bifidocin B and lactococcin R on the growth of Listeria monocytogenes and Bacillus cereus on sterile chicken breast. J. Food Safety 27: 373-385.
  
• Dutta, V. G.R. Huff, W.E. Huff, M.G. Johnson, R. Nannapaneni, and R.J. Sayler. 2008. The effects of stress on respiratory disease and transient colonization of turkey with Listeria monocytogenes Scott A.  Avian Dis. 52: 561-589. 
  
• Hanning, R.B., M. G. Johnson, and S.C. Ricke. 2008. Precut prepackaged lettuce: A risk for listeriosis ? –A review.  Foodborne Pathogens and Disease 5(No 6); 731-746.
  
• Lungu, B., S.C. Ricke, and M.G. Johnson. 2008. Resistance of nutrient deprived Listeria monocytogenes 10403S and a Delta sig B mutant to chemical stresses in the presence or absence of oxygen. J Food Sci. 73(No.7): pp. M339-M345.
  
• Sivarooban, T., N.S. Hettiarachchy, N. S. and M.G. Johnson. 2008. Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) study of Listeria monocytogenes treated with nisin in combination with either grape seed or green tea extract. J Food Protection 71(No. 10 ): 2105-2109.
  
• Anderson, R.C., S.C.Ricke, B. Lungu, M.G. Johnson, C. Oliver, S.M. Horrocks and D. J. Nisbet. 2009. Chap 6- Food safety issues and the microbiology of beef, pp 115-145, IN: Heredia, N, I. Wesley and S. Garcia, Eds, MICROBIOLOGICALLY SAFE FOODS, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.
  
• Heo, S.A., R. Nannapaneni, M.G. Johnson, J.S. Park, and K.H. Seo. 2009. Production and characterization of a monoclonal antibody to Campylobacter jejuni. J. Food Protect. 72N0.4): 87-875.
  
• Lungu, B. S.C. Ricke, and M.G. Johnson. 2009 Growth, survival, proliferation and pathogenesis of Listeria monocytogenes under low oxygen or anaerobic conditions: A review. Anaerobe 15: 7-17.
  
• Nannapaneni, R., V.I. Chalova, P.G. Crandall, S. C. Ricke, M.G. Johnson & C.A. O’Bryan. 2009 Campylobacter and Arcobacter species sensitivity to commercial orange oil fractions. Intl J. Food Microbiol. 129: 43-49