Dr. Xiaonan Lu
Associate Professor
Food, Nutrition and Health
Faculty of Land and Food Systems
The Lu’s Food Safety Engineering Lab at UBC works on developing innovative and rapid sensing, instrumentation systems and detection methods for ensuring food safety as well as preventing food bioterrorism and fraud. We also apply molecular biology and genomic approaches to investigate stress response and pathogenesis of microorganisms that post threats to agri-food system and public health. Students in the Lu lab employ their diverse backgrounds in engineering, analytical chemistry, molecular microbiology, biophysics and advanced mathematics to develop novel techniques and apply these to a variety of systems related to food chemical and microbiological (pathogenic bacteria and highly-contagious virus) safety.