Qianru Yang Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition /Office of Applied Research and Safety Assessment/Division of Molecular Biology U.S. Food and Drug Administration Biography Publications Institution JoVE Articles Qianru Yang Qianru Yang is a microbiologist/virologist in the Division of Molecular Biology, Office of Applied Research and Safety Assessment, at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition in Laurel, Maryland. She received her master’s degree in food science from Oregon State University in 2009 and a Ph.D. from Louisiana State University in 2013. Dr. Yang has a strong background in Food Safety and Food Microbiology.In 2012, Dr. Yang joined the FDA to work with Dr. Beilei Ge on addressing microbial food and feed safety issues in support of the Center for Veterinary Medicine’s regulatory mission. Their research group works on developing rapid, reliable, and robust pathogen detection methods in animal food, characterizing phenotypic and genotypic traits of foodborne pathogens and indicator organisms in animal food, evaluating mitigation strategies for pathogen control in animal food, and investigating dynamics of antimicrobial resistance development in foodborne bacteria. Their novel LAMP assay was successfully completed its single-lab validation and multi-lab validation of Salmonella detection in food and feed, then has been incorporated into the FDA’s Bacteriological Analytical Manual as an FDA approved reference method. In 2019, she joined the Virology team to work on the surveillance of foodborne viruses which supports the key initiatives of the Office of Applied Research and Safety Assessment, at the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition. The team works on developing and validating detection methods for foodborne viral pathogen (especially Norovirus and Hepatitis A virus) from food and environmental samples. Dr. Yang employs traditional microbiological and molecular methods and next-generation sequencing tools in her research. Publications Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification for Salmonella Detection in Food and Feed: Current Applications and Future Directions Foodborne Pathogens and Disease. 06, 2018 | Pubmed ID: 29902082 Validation of a Salmonella Loop-mediated Isothermal Amplification Assay in Animal Food International Journal of Food Microbiology. Jan, 2018 | Pubmed ID: 29121500 Effects of Low Concentrations of Erythromycin, Penicillin, and Virginiamycin on Bacterial Resistance Development in Vitro Scientific Reports. 09, 2017 | Pubmed ID: 28887450 MRSA and Multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus in U.S. Retail Meats, 2010-2011 Food Microbiology. Apr, 2017 | Pubmed ID: 27889161 Rapid Detection of Salmonella in Food and Feed by Coupling Loop-mediated Isothermal Amplification with Bioluminescent Assay in Real-time BMC Microbiology. 06, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 27316515 Evaluation of Loop-mediated Isothermal Amplification for the Rapid, Reliable, and Robust Detection of Salmonella in Produce Food Microbiology. Apr, 2015 | Pubmed ID: 25475319 Presence of Disinfectant Resistance Genes in Escherichia Coli Isolated from Retail Meats in the USA The Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. Oct, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24908046 Evaluation of a Loop-mediated Isothermal Amplification Suite for the Rapid, Reliable, and Robust Detection of Shiga Toxin-producing Escherichia Coli in Produce Applied and Environmental Microbiology. Apr, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24509927 Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification for Screening Salmonella in Animal Food and Confirming Salmonella from Culture Isolation Kelly J. Domesle1, Shenia R. Young1, Qianru Yang1, Beilei Ge1 1Center for Veterinary Medicine, U.S. Food and Drug Administration JoVE 61239 Biology
Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification for Screening Salmonella in Animal Food and Confirming Salmonella from Culture Isolation Kelly J. Domesle1, Shenia R. Young1, Qianru Yang1, Beilei Ge1 1Center for Veterinary Medicine, U.S. Food and Drug Administration JoVE 61239 Biology