Microbes and Beneficial Microbes

Jie Zheng currently serves as a Research Microbiologist in the Molecular Methods and Subtyping Branch (MMSB) within the Division of Microbiology at the Food

and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN). Dr. Zheng received her Ph.D. in Food Science from University of Maryland at

College Park, MD in 2006. Dr. Zheng joined the laboratories at CFSAN in 2008 after her two-year post-doc training at UMD. She has been engaged in development

of SNP-based detection, identifi cation and subtyping methods for various phyletic and pathovar divisions of pathogenic Salmonella. Dr. Zheng is one of the PIs on

the newly formed Human Pathogens on Plants (HPOP) research group where she focuses on her research in Salmonella adaptation in food matrix and plant using

next generation sequencing technology and development of related intervention strategies.