TOPIC: Mycotoxin Threats to the Food Chain and How to End Those Threats
SPEAKER: Professor Dan Brown, Department of Animal Science. Cornell University
Dan Brown is a nutritionist seeking to remove constraints to the sustainable delivery of high quality nutrients to vulnerable members of the world`s population through improvement of animal agricultural systems. Of particular interest to him are the dangers posed by naturally occurring toxins in the food chain. His undergraduate education in Animal Science came from the University of California, Davis (1976) as did certification for teaching Biology and Agriculture in secondary schools (1977). His graduate research concerned the basic biochemistry of dietary manipulation of milk composition resulted in a PhD in Nutrition from Cornell University (1981). Since then, he has been a production systems specialist for Winrock International in Western Kenya (1981-1983), an Animal Science faculty member at UC Davis (1983-1994) and Cornell University (1994-2015), including a secondment as a staff scientist at the International Livestock Research Institute in Ethiopia (2000-2003). Currently, Brown teaches Feeding the World (ANSC/IARD4000) and Comparative Animal Nutrition and Toxicology (ANSC/IARD 3200). For that 8 years or so, Brown has conducted Federally-funded research in Haiti and Upstate New York to reduce the passage of aflatoxin from feed and food into the human food chain. (Plus occasional investigations of emerging toxicants and a few experiments targeted at solving problems for small ruminant producers.)
23 September, 2015 – Ithaca, NY USA
Cornell University 135 Emerson Hall 12:20-1:10 p.m.