This lab scale research involves studying E. coli, Salmonella, and Listeria monocytogens inactivation in dairy manure using batch reactors to develop inactivation model for estimating pathogen inactivation in aerobic and anaerobic digesters.

Sponsor: Start-up fund, School of Veterinary Medicine/Extension, UC Davis (http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/index.cfm)

Pathogen testing in digested slurry: Sagor Biswas, Post-doctoral scholar (left), Pramod Pandey (right) (photo credit: Jacob Karcz)