Experimental: Wetlab Team
Cheese Engineering
Project Leads: Bailey Daymo, Hanen Su
Members: Kendall Hsieh, Nikhit Kambdur, Meera Kashyap
Fungal spoilage of cheese can have major economic losses due to food safety issues, additional work to remove it, product losses and waste, and reduction of quality. Our team is researching how to inhibit the growth of penicillium fungus on soft cheeses by engineering Lactococcus lactis to express antifungal agents such as chitinases, glucanases, antifungal peptides.