Dr. Shu Chen leads the development and implementation of advanced molecular methods for progressing food safety and quality monitoring and research. Her team work on food-borne pathogen detection, identification, sub-typing and whole genome sequencing; plant/animal/fish species and plant variety/cultivar identification; GMO, food/feed contaminant species detection; metabarcoding analysis of eDNA for animal and fish species; microbial profiling of foods, soil, water and plants.