Adhikari, A., lewis Ivey, M.L., Fontenot, K., and Graham, C.  Enhancing LouisianaSpecialty Crop Growers Food Safety Awareness and Market Opportunities throughGood Agricultural Practices and Good Handling Practices. LDAF Specialty Crop Block Grant. October 1, 2014-September 31, 2017. $112 385

Peer Reviewed Publications (Past four years)

Lewis Ivey, M.L ., and Miller, S.A. 2014. Viabilitystaining of Phytophthora capsici propagules. Mycologia, 106:362-367.

Lewis Ivey, M.L ., Xu, X., and Miller, S.A. 2014. Leveraging management strategies forseedborne plant diseases to reduce Salmonellaenterica Serovar Typhimurium incidence on tomato seed and seedlings. J. Food Prot. 77(3):359-64.

Lewis Ivey, M.L., and Miller, S.A. 2013. Assessing the Efficacy of Pre-Harvest,Chlorine-Based Sanitizers Against Human Pathogen Indicator Microorganisms and Phytophthora capsici in Non-RecycledSurface Irrigation Water . Water Research, WaterResearch 47:4639-4651.

Adikini, S., Beed.F., Tusiime, G., Kyamanywa, S., Lewis Ivey, M.L ., and Miller, S.A. 2013. Spread of Xanthomonas campestris pv. musacearum in banana plants: implications for management of bananaXanthomonas wilt disease. PlantPathol. 35:458-468.

Luster,D., McMahon, M., Edwards, H., Boerma, B., Lewis Ivey, M ., Miller, S.A.and Dorrance, A. 2012. Novel Phakopsorapachyrhizi Extracellular Proteins are Ideal Targets for ImmunologicalDiagnostic Assays. Appl. Environ.Microbiol. 78:3890-3895.

LewisIvey, M.L ., LeJeune,J.T., and Miller, S.A. 2012. Vegetable Producers’ Perceptions of Food Safety Hazards in the Midwestern USA. Food Control, 26:453-465. Available on-line: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foodcont.2012.01.065 .

Ma, Xing,Lewis Ivey, M.L. and Miller, S.A. 2011. First Report of Xanthomonas gardneri Causing Bacterial Spot of Tomato in Ohio and Michigan. 95: 1584.

Ling,K.S., Lin, H., Lewis Ivey, M.L., Zhang, W., and Miller, S.A. 2011. First Report of ‘ Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum ’ Naturally Infecting Tomatoes in the State of Mexico, Mexico. Plant Dis. 95: 1026.

Book Chapters (Past four years)

Lewis Ivey,M. L . and Miller, S.A. 2013. Development of innovative multi-level knowledge based tomato diseasefactsheets. Acta Hort. (ISHS) SubmittedMay 2013.

Ilic. S.,LeJeune, J.T., Lewis Ivey, M.L ., and Miller, S.A. 2013. Use of the Delphi expert elicitation technique to rank food safety risksin greenhouse tomato production. Acta Hort.(ISHS) Submitted May 2013.

Miller, S.A., Lewis Ivey,M.L., Baysal-Gurel, F., Xu, X. 2013.  A systems approach totomato disease management.  Acta Hort.(ISHS) Submitted May 2013.

1. Development and integration of economical and sustainable strategies for plant disease management and food safety practices in vegetables and other horticultural crops. 
2. Development of effective communication and information exchange strategies, specific to horticultural producers in Louisiana and surrounding states, through the use of mental models, operation risk assessments, expert elicitations and scoping or systematic reviews.

Current Research and Extension Outreach Activities

1. Operational risk assessment and expert elicitation of risk factors for microbial contamination in the tomato greenhouse production chain.
2. Development of co-management sanitation practices to mitigate the risk of Xanthomonas gardneri, Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. michiganensis and Salmonella spp. in pelleted tomato seed.
3. Development of an interactive best management practices guide for vegetable transplant production.

B.Sc. Microbiology, The University of Guelph, 1996 M.Sc. Plant Sciences, The University of Western Ontario, 1998 PhD. Plant Pathology, The Ohio State University, 2011