Heather Hallen-Adams
Title: Assistant Professor of Practice
Address: 1901 N 21st St; Lincoln, NE 68588-6205; USA
Tel: 001-402-4722825
Email: hhallen-adams2@unl.edu
Education Background:
1997-2002 Ph.D., Michigan State University, USA
1992-1996 B.Sc., University of Minnesota, USA
Working Experiences:
2010-present Assistant Professor, Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
2002-2010 Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Plant Biology and Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University, USA
Research Interests:
Research interests center on food, fungi and human health, and include the fungal component of the human microbiome; food and beverage fermentations and killer yeasts; biology and genetics of mycotoxin-producing fungi; and edible and poisonous mushrooms.
Representative Publications:
Mendoza JR, Kok CR, Stratton J, Bianchini A, Hallen-Adams HE (2017) Understanding the mycobiota of maize from the highlands of Guatemala, and implicatiosn for maize quality and safety. Crop Protection 101:5-11.
Banjara N, Nickerson KW, Suhr MJ, Hallen-Adams HE (2016) Killer toxin from several food-derived Debaryomyces hansenii strains effective against pathogenic Candida yeasts. Int J Food Microbiol 222:23-29.
Hallen-Adams HE, Kachman SD, Kim J, Legge RM, Martínez I (2015) Fungi inhabiting the healthy human gastrointestinal tract:: a dynamic and diverse community. Fungal Ecol 15:9-17.
