EDUCATION
1995 Ph.D. in Food Microbiology,
Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science,
University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
1990 B.Sc. in Food Science,
Department of Food Science,
University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
AWARDS
1995 French Ministry of Foreign Affairs Postdoctoral Fellowship
1989 Canadian Institute of Food Science and Technology Undergraduate Scholarship
RESEARCH AND WORK EXPERIENCE
August 1997 to present --
Assistant Professor of Food Microbiology
Department of Food Science and Technology
Cornell University at Geneva, NY
October 1995 to July 1997 --
Postdoctoral Fellow
Institut de Biologie Moleculaire et d'Ingenierie Genetique
Universite de Poitiers, Poiters, France
September 1990 to 1995 --
Graduate student, Sessional Lecturer, Laboratory Demonstrator and Teaching Assistant
Department of Agricultural Food and Nutritional Science
University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
May to September 1989 & 1990
Research assistant
Meat Microbiology Laboratory
Agriculture Canada
Lacombe, AB, Canada
PUBLICATIONS
1. Biet, F., Berjeaud, J. M., Worobo, R. W., Cenatiempo, Y. and Fremaux, C.
Heterologous expression of mesentericin Y105 using the general secretion pathway
(GSP) or the dedicated transport system in Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria.
Microbiology (in press). Randy W. Worobo
2. van Belkum M. J., Worobo R. W., and Stiles M. E. 1997. Double-Glycine Type
Leader Peptides Direct Secretion of Bacteriocins by ABC Transporters: Colicin
V Secretion in Lactococcus lactis . Mol. Microbiol. 23:1293-1301.
3. McCormick J. K., Worobo R. W., and Stiles M. E. 1996. Expression of the Antimicrobial
Peptide Carnobacteriocin B2 by a Signal Peptide Dependent General Secretory
Pathway. Appl. Environ. Micro. 62:4095-4099.
4. Worobo R. W., van Belkum M. J., Sailer M., Roy K. L., Vederas J. C., and
Stiles M. E. 1995. A Signal Peptide Secretion-dependent Bacteriocin of Carnobacterium
divergens . J. Bacteriol. 177:3143-3149.
5. Worobo R. W., Henkel T., Sailer M., Roy K. L., Vederal J. C., and Stiles
M. E. 1994. Characteristics and Genetic Determinant of a Hydrophobic Peptide
Bacteriocin, Carnobacteriocin A, Produced by Carnobacterium piscicola
LV17A. Microbiology (Reading) 4:517-526.
6. Allison G. E., Worobo R. W. Stiles M. E., and Klaenhammer T. R. 1995. Heterologous
Expression of the Lactacin F Peptides by Carnobacterium piscicola
LV17. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 61:1371-1377.