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Open letter to
ISAPP membership
from President,
Glenn Gibson,
March 18, 2011
ISAPP's Consumer

Guidelines for Choosing

a Probiotic or a

Prebiotic Product
 
ISAPP Board of Directors

President
Glenn Gibson, Ph.D.
Food Microbial Sciences Unit
School of Food Biosciences
The University of Reading Whiteknights
PO Box 226
Reading RG6 6AP UK
Phone: +44 (0)118 378 8715
Fax: +44 (0)118 931 0080
Email: g.r.gibson@reading.ac.uk
Research group website
Selected Publications
  Vice President
Todd Klaenhammer, Ph.D.
Department of Food Science
North Carolina State University
P.O. Box 7624
Raleigh, NC 27695-7624 USA
Phone: 919-515-2972
Fax: 919-515-7124
Email: klaenhammer@ncsu.edu
Selected Publications
 
Secretary
Michael Cabana, MD, MPH.
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Director, Division of General Pediatrics
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
3333 California Street, Suite 245
San Francisco, CA 94118
Phone: (415) 514-2660
Email: michael.cabana@ucsf.edu Selected Publications
  Treasurer
Karen Scott, Ph.D.
Rowett Research Institute
Greenburn Road , Bucksburn
Aberdeen Scotland
Phone: 0044 1224 712751 ext 2224
Fax: 0044 1224 716687
Email: kps@rri.sari.ac.uk
Selected Publications
 
Past President
Gregor Reid, Ph.D.
Lawson Research Institute
University of Western Ontario
Room H 414, 268 Grosvenor Street
London, Ontario, N6A 4V2, Canada.
Tel: 519-646-6100 x65256; Fax: 519-646-6110.
Laboratory, Lawson Research Institute, Room 369
Phone: 519-646-6100 x65120
Email: gregor@uwo.ca
Selected Publications
  Executive Director
Mary Ellen Sanders, Ph.D.
Dairy and Food Culture Technologies
7119 S. Glencoe Ct.
Centennial, CO 80122-2526
Phone: 303-793-9974
Email: mes@mesanders.com
Web: www.mesanders.com
Selected Publications
 
 
Members at Large
 
George C. Fahey, Jr.
Professor of Animal Sciences and Kraft Foods Endowed Professor of Nutritional Sciences
University of Illinois
132 Animal Sciences Laboratory
1207 West Gregory Drive
Urbana, IL 61801
Phone: 217-333-2361
Fax: 217-333-7861
E-mail: gcfahey@illinois.edu
Website: www.pets.ansci.uiuc.edu
Selected Publications
  Colin Hill PhD D.Sc
Professor of Microbial Food Safety
Microbiology Department
University College Cork,
Cork, Ireland
Phone: +353 (0)21 4901373
Fax +353 (0)21 4903101
Email: c.hill@ucc.ie
Selected Publications
 
Fredrik Bäckhed, Ph.D.
Wallenberg Laboratory/University of Gothenburg
Bruna stråket 16
Sahlgrenska University Hospital
SE 413 45 Göteborg
SWEDEN
fredrik@wlab.gu.se
Lab website: www.cmr.gu.se/backhed
Selected Publications
  Francisco Guarner, MD, Ph.D.
Digestive System Research Unit
University Hospital Vall d’Hebron
Passeig Vall d’Hebron, 119
Barcelona 08035, Spain
Phone: (34) 932746282
Fax: (34) 934894456
Email: fguarnera@medynet.com Selected Publications
   
 
 
Industry Advisory Committee Representative
 
Ravi Menon, Ph.D.
General Mills
Minneapolis, MN
ravi.menon@genmills.com
   
 
 
Past Board Members
 
David Mills, Ph.D.
University of California
Davis, CA 95616 USA
damills@ucdavis.edu
  Marcel Roberfroid, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Université Catholique de LOUVAIN
Belgium
marcel.roberfroid@orafti.com
 
Cristine Cherbut, Ph.D.
National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA)
France
cherbut@nantes.inra.fr
  Bruno Pot , Ph.D.
Institut Pasteur de Lille (IBL)
FRANCE
bruno.pot@ibl.fr
 
Harsharnjit S. Gill, BVSc., MCSc., Ph.D.
Department of Primary Industries
AUSTRALIA
harsharn.gill@dpi.vic.gov.au
  Bob Rastall, Ph.D.
University of Reading
U.K.
r.a.rastall@reading.ac.uk
 
Ian Rowland, Ph.D.
University of Reading
i.rowland@reading.ac.uk
  Nathalie M. Delzenne, Ph.D.
Université Catholique de Louvain
Belgium
delzenne@pmnt.ucl.ac.be

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