Marjon Wells-Bennik

NIZO Food Research
Ede Netherlands

Biographical Sketch: Dr. Marjon Wells-Bennik is Principle Scientist Food Safety at NIZO food research. She obtained her PhD in Food Microbiology at Wageningen University in The Netherlands and was a Postdoctoral fellow (molecular microbiology) at Harvard University (Boston). She subsequently worked as a Scientist at the Agrotechnological Research Institute (Wageningen) supervising PhD projects on Listeria monocytogenes and Bacillus cereus, and continued research on sporeformers, namely Clostridium botulinum, at the Institute of Food Research (Norwich UK) from 2001-2004. Since she started at NIZO in 2004, she has managed diverse projects relating to contaminants in foods, and over the past 4 years, this included a program on heat resistant bacterial spores which was funded by the Top Institute Food and Nutrition TIFN, a public-private centre of excellence in the Netherlands.

Papers:
Genetic Biomarkers for High Heat Resistance of Bacillus Spores: Relevance for Optimal Design of Heat Treatment