Kendra Nightingale, Ph.D.

Professor

Pre-and Post-Harvest Food Safety

AFS 201

(806)392-2815

kendra.nightingale@ttu.edu

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Kendra Nightingale, Ph.D., was formerly an associate professor in Colorado State University's Department of Animal Science.Her research focuses primarily on pre- and post-harvest food safety. Her work has included gaining a more comprehensive understanding of the molecular ecology and transmission dynamics of food borne pathogens throughout the human food chain, as well as identifying risk factors that contribute to loading of the human food chain with food borne pathogens and the subsequent spread of these pathogens along the food continuum.She's also interested in probing the molecular evolution and population structure of human food borne and animal pathogens, and defining the underlying genetic mechanisms responsible for observed differences in virulence phenotypes within a given pathogen species. Nightingale received her bachelor's degree in animal science and master's degree in food science from Kansas State University. Her doctorate in science and technology is from Cornell University.