Beatriz Quinones
United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, USA
Biography
Beatriz Quinones has completed her PhD in Molecular and Cell Biology and Postdoctoral studies in Plant and Microbial Biology from the University of California at Berkeley.
She is currently a Research Molecular Biologist in the Produce Safety and Microbiology Research Unit at the USDA/ARS-Western Regional Research Center. Her research
projects are aimed at the detection and genotyping of bacterial and viral food borne pathogens and have resulted in the publication of more than 35 papers in peer-reviewed
journals. Her ongoing collaborations with academic institutions in Mexico are focused on the detection of food borne pathogens in agricultural regions for export produce