Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology
76 Lipman Drive - Room 2
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8525
(732) 932-9763 x 300
Fax: (732) 932-9530E-mail: Paula Marie Ward
Assistant Research Professor
B.S. Ed. St. John's University, Jamaica New York, 1972
Teachers College, Columbia University, 1983
Ph.D. Rutgers University, Animal Sciences, 1998
Research ActivitiesAntibiotic resistance from nutraceuticals, animal waste management, biomass to energy conversion (Organic Energetic Process), human resource management, separation technologies, bone replacement technologies, life cycle analysis of land-applied wastes.
Recent Publications:G. Benyehuda, J. Coombs, PL Ward, D. Balkwill and T. Barkay. 2003. metal resistance among aerobic chemoheterotrophic bacteria from the deep terrestrial subsurface. Canadian Journal of Microbiology. (Accepted)
Ward., PL, S Fasitsas and SE Katz. 2002. Antimicrobial resistance development mediated by nutraceuticals. The British Naturopathic Journal. Volume 19, No. 3:65-6.Ward, PL, JE Wohlt. 2002. A survey of cattle, horse, poultry and laboratory animal industries: preferences, perceptions and risks associated with recycled paper and traditional animal bedding materials use in New Jersey, 1995. Journal of Extension. Volume 40:3.
Ward., PL, S Fasitsas and SE Katz. 2002. Microbial inhibition, antibiotic interactions, and resistance development by nutraceuticals. J. of Food Protection 65(3):528-533.
Book Chapters:
Katz, S. E., P. L. Ward. 2005. Antibiotics in foods and their significance. Antimicrobials in Foods, 3rd Edition. Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, NY, USA.
Katz, S. E., P. L. Ward. 2004. Antibiotics and Hormones. Toxins in Foods. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, USA. (Publication date: November 30, 2003).
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