{"id":1141,"date":"2022-11-15T11:27:19","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T16:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/food-safety-innovation-lab\/?p=1141"},"modified":"2023-02-02T13:50:02","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T18:50:02","slug":"animal-sciences-graduate-student-pursues-interdisciplinary-research-in-fsil-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/food-safety-innovation-lab\/animal-sciences-graduate-student-pursues-interdisciplinary-research-in-fsil-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduate student pursues interdisciplinary food safety research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Categorizing Purdue University animal science graduate student Leah Thompson is a challenging proposition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI joke that I&#8217;m grossly mislabeled, because I&#8217;m an animal scientist working on a project in Cambodia that is all about vegetables,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, her role in that project largely focuses on understanding women\u2019s roles, knowledge and attitudes about food safety. This pivot was spurred by an offer from Purdue Professor of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/department\/ansc\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Animal Sciences<\/a>\u2014and her former undergraduate advisor\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/department\/ansc\/directory.html#\/pebner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paul Ebner<\/a>\u00a0to return to Purdue to pursue a Ph.D. focused on international food safety research and outreach. Ebner had recently been named co-Principal Investigator (PI) on a project funded by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/food-safety-innovation-lab\/\">Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Safety<\/a>\u00a0(FSIL) to reduce foodborne illness spread by vegetables sold through traditional markets in Cambodia.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/news\/2022\/11\/animal-science-fsil-leah-thompson.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Continue reading on Purdue College of Agriculture<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Categorizing Purdue University animal science graduate student Leah Thompson is a challenging proposition. \u201cI joke that I&#8217;m grossly mislabeled, because I&#8217;m an animal scientist working on a project in Cambodia that is all about vegetables,\u201d she says. Furthermore, her role in that project largely focuses on understanding women\u2019s roles, knowledge and attitudes about food safety. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-program-updates","category-researcher-profiles"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/food-safety-innovation-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/food-safety-innovation-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/food-safety-innovation-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/food-safety-innovation-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/food-safety-innovation-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/food-safety-innovation-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1150,"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/food-safety-innovation-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions\/1150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/food-safety-innovation-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/food-safety-innovation-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/food-safety-innovation-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/food-safety-innovation-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}