
Seppo Salminen, PhD
PresidentProfessor, Director
Functional Foods Forum
University of Turku
20014 Turku, Finland
sepsal@utu.fi

Daniel Merenstein, MD
Vice PresidentDirector of Research of Family Medicine
Professor of Family Medicine
Georgetown University Medical Center
215 Kober Cogan Hall
3750 Reservoir Road, NW
Washington, DC 20007
djm23@georgetown.edu

Robert Hutkins, PhD
SecretaryProfessor
Department of Food Science and Technology
University of Nebraska
Lincoln, NE 68583-0919
rhutkins1@unl.edu

Karen Scott, PhD
TreasurerSenior Research Fellow
Rowett Institute
University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen, Scotland, UK AB21 9SB
K.scott@abdn.ac.uk

Glenn Gibson, PhD
Member-At-LargeFood Microbial Sciences Unit
School of Food Biosciences
The University of Reading Whiteknights
PO Box 226, Reading RG6 6AP UK
g.r.gibson@reading.ac.uk

Kelly Swanson, PhD
Member-At-LargeProfessor, Department of Animal Sciences and Division of Nutritional Sciences
Adjunct Professor, Department of Veterinary Clinical Medicine
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1207 West Gregory Drive, 162 Animal Sciences Laboratory
Urbana, IL, USA 61801
ksswanso@illinois.edu

Daniel J. Tancredi, PhD
Member-At-LargeProfessor
Department of Pediatrics
University of California, Davis
2516 Stockton Boulevard, Room 379
Sacramento, California, USA 95817
djtancredi@ucdavis.edu

Gabriel Vinderola, PhD
Member-At-LargeAssociate Professor of Microbiology
Faculty of Chemical Engineering
National University of Litoral
Principal Researcher, CONICET
Santiago del Estero 2829
Santa Fe - 3000, Argentina
gvinde@fiq.unl.edu.ar

Colin Hill PhD, DSc
Member-at-Large
Professor of Microbial Food Safety
Microbiology Department
University College Cork
Cork, Ireland
c.hill@ucc.ie

Sarah Lebeer, PhD
Member-At-LargeResearch Professor in Microbiology and Molecular Biology
Department of Bioscience Engineering
University of Antwerp
Groenenborgerlaan 171
2020 Antwerpen
Belgium
sarah.lebeer@uantwerpen.be

Maria Marco, PhD
Member-At-LargeDepartment of Food Science and Technology
One Shields Avenue, The University of California
Davis, CA 95616
mmarco@ucdavis.edu

Eamonn Quigley, MD
Member-At-LargeDivision of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
The Methodist Hospital and Weill Cornell School of Medicine
6550 Fannin, Suite SM1001
Houston, Texas 77030
equigley@tmhs.org

Hania Szajewska, MD
Member-At-LargeProfessor Department of Paediatrics
The Medical University of Warsaw
Zwirki i Wigury 63A
02-091 Warsaw, Poland
hania@ipgate.pl

Mary Ellen Sanders, PhD
Executive Science OfficerDairy and Food Culture Technologies
7119 S. Glencoe Ct.
Centennial, CO 80122-2526
maryellen@isappscience.org
Past Board Members
Todd Klaenhammer, PhD
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NCGEORGE FAHEY, PHD
University of Illinois, USAFRANCISCO GUARNER, MD, PHD
University Hospital Vall d’Hebron, SpainJULIET ANSELL, D. PHIL.
Zespri, New ZealandFredrik Bäckhed
University of Gothenburg, SwedenNATHALIE M. DELZENNE, PHD
Université Catholique de Louvain, BelgiumBRUNO POT , PHD
Institut Pasteur de Lille (IBL), FRANCEBOB RASTALL, PHD
University of Reading, U.K.IAN ROWLAND, PHD
University of Reading, U.K.HARSHARNJIT S. GILL, PHD
AustraliaMARCEL ROBERFROID, PHD
Professor Emeritus Université Catholique de LOUVAIN, BelgiumCRISTINE CHERBUT, PHD
National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA), FranceDAVID MILLS, PHD
University of California, USAMichael Cabana, MD, MPH
University of California, San FranciscoGregor Reid, PhD, MBA
The University of Western Ontario, Canada