Kovacevic Lab

Fighting Listeria, teaching FSMA and promoting food safety in the Western US

[Kovacevic Lab @KovacevicLab]

Welcome Dr. Ragini Reddyvari, our new WRCEFS Coordinator! Dr. Reddyvari will lead efforts in food safety education and outreach across the western region, working with educators, producers, and stakeholders to strengthen food safety practices. 🔬🫧📋

[Kovacevic Lab @KovacevicLab]

Congratulations to all the winners of the IAFP Developing Scientist Competition! We want to give a special shout out to our MS student, Taylor Johnson, for taking 3rd place in the poster category. Her work focuses on dairy isolate metabolites and their anti-listeria properties

[International Association for Food Protection @IAFPFood]

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2023 J. Mac Goepfert Developing Scientist Awards, which were presented at the IAFP 2023 Awards Banquet on July 19 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. We applaud each of you for your outstanding research!

[OSU Ag Sciences @OSUAgSci]

The Department of Food Science and Technology presents a Seminar by Dr. Ahmed Yousef! Learn all about new microbial and antimicrobial peptides by clicking the link below or scanning the QR code 🔬

https://t.co/YMOBcmWxZZ

[Oregon State Extension Service @OregonStateExt]

Jovana Kovacevic, associate professor and food safety Extension specialist at OSU's Food Innovation Center in Portland, discussed her research and outreach on a recent episode of the Food Safety Matters podcast. https://t.co/KckMNP9ZnL
@FoodSafetyMag @OSUAgSci

[WRCEFS Food Safety @wrcefs]

(1/2) WRCEFS has been selected as the 2021 winner of the USDA NIFA Partnership Award in the Multi-state Efforts category! WRCEFS has received this award for working collaboratively to provide continued #foodsafety education and outreach to the food industry in the Western region.

[Trends in Microbiology @TrendsMicrobiol]

The Kovacevic lab (@KovacevicLab) was established in 2016. Through an integrated research, outreach and Extension program, Dr. Kovacevic aims to improve food safety/ #FSMA related food safety training, education and outreach activities in the Pacific Northwest/across Western U.S.

[WRCEFS Food Safety @wrcefs]

WRCEFS director Jovana Kovacevic (@KovacevicLab) and her team are featured in this week's @TrendsMicrobiol Trends Voices: On Inclusion and Diversity.

Thanks Jovana and team for your contributions to the #foodsafety and #science community!

#WomenInSTEM #OSUAgSci #listeria #fsma

[Kovacevic Lab @KovacevicLab]

@achyutadhikari @OSUAgSci @FIC_OSU @CASResearch_OSU Thank you!

[Kovacevic Lab @KovacevicLab]

Our team is excited to be featured in Trends in Microbiology!

@OSUAgSci @FIC_OSU @CASResearch_OSU

#science #WomenInSTEM #foodsafety #listeria #FSMA #AMR #WGS

[Trends in Microbiology @TrendsMicrobiol]

It's #ECRinFocus time!

In this week’s spotlight, meet Dr. Jovana Kovacevic from Oregon State University, who was recently featured in Capital Press. https://t.co/TWXlddLtiq.

#WomenInSTEM #TrendsVoices #TrendsJournals

[Kovacevic Lab @KovacevicLab]

Thank you @TrendsMicrobiol for the featured spotlight!

[Kovacevic Lab @KovacevicLab]

Rebecca is currently in Yuma, AZ, where she is working as a Food Safety and Quality Assurance Supervisor at Dole Fresh Vegetables.

Congratulations Rebecca!

Photo Credit: Stephen Ward, OSU

#science #WomenInSTEM #foodsafety #produce #AMR #OSUAgSci

[Kovacevic Lab @KovacevicLab]

(1/n) Former lab member Rebecca Bland was recently selected as the recipient of the 2022 WAGS/ProQuest Distinguished Master’s Thesis Award in STEM disciplines.

[Kovacevic Lab @KovacevicLab]

This advances her as OSU’s nominee for consideration in the regional Distinguished Master’s Thesis Award competition sponsored by the Western Association of Graduate Schools (WAGS) and ProQuest.

This is an amazing accomplishment for Rebecca and so well deserved!

[Kovacevic Lab @KovacevicLab]

Need dairy specific #foodsafety and #FSMA food safety plan help? Check out this new workshop and office hour collaboration from #CornellCALS #fbnsncstate #OSUAgSci and the Innovation Center for US Dairy #DairyGood

[WRCEFS Food Safety @wrcefs]

1/ Need #dairy support? The online, self-paced Artisan Dairy Food Safety Plan Coaching Workshop is intended for small to mid-sized dairy food producers who are preparing to create, or are already developing, a FSMA compliant, preventive control (PC)-based, food safety plan.

[Kovacevic Lab @KovacevicLab]

Today's #MeetTheTeamMonday article features our lab leader, Jovana Kovacevic, and some of the work our team does with #Listeria research, education, and outreach!

https://t.co/Pu4JuC0V53

#science #WomenInSTEM #foodsafety #OSUAgSci #foodscience #agriculture

[Kovacevic Lab @KovacevicLab]

Great event last week @michiganstateu! Happy to report that Dr. Kovacevic (@KovacevicJo) is a new member of the OFRR training team. #foodsafety #OFRR

[NASDA @NASDAnews]

This afternoon, participants of the On-Farm Readiness Review Training gained experience working through different scenarios to help farmers align their current practices with regulatory expectations. #foodsafety #OFRR #foodforall

[NASDA @NASDAnews]

The @NASDAFoundation team began the morning going over different aspects of yesterday’s On Farm Readiness Review training, followed by more farm scenarios. #foodsafety #OFRR #foodforall

[Kovacevic Lab @KovacevicLab]

Meet the Team Monday! Today's post is about one of our MS students, Andrea Domen. Andrea is working on characterizing Listeria monocytogenes isolates collected from dairy sources!

#listeria #foodsafety #dairy #science #MeetTheTeamMonday

[Kovacevic Lab @KovacevicLab]

Our students are on the move! Grad students Andrea Domen and Taylor Johnson did a great job representing us at the BUILD conference earlier this month. We also wanted to congratulate all our OSU FST community who presented at BUILD as well!

#foodsafety #dairy #science #Listeria

[Kovacevic Lab @KovacevicLab]

Graduate student Andrea Domen is in Kansas City this week for the @ADSAorg meeting! Great job representing us this week and sharing about #AMR in #Listeria monocytogenes!

#ADSA2022 #dairy #foodsafety