Advanced Food Analysis Tools

Dr. Rovina Kobun is a researcher and academician of the Faculty of Food Science and Nutrition, University Malaysia Sabah. She is member of the Biosensor Research Group at the UMS Biotechnology Research Institute. Dr Rovina’s work focuses primarily on food biotechnology and food analysis and toxicology). She is involved in varying types of research areas such as chemo- and/ bio- sensors, optical sensors-based research, and removing heavy metal ions from sediments and waste water. She has published 18 articles in high impact journals, 1 patent, 2 books, 10 book chapters, and 8 international conference/proceedings.

1. Introduction of Biosensor and nanotechnology 2. Biosensor and nanotechnology: Past, present and future in food research

Biosensor for detection of food borne pathogen and chemical residues 3. Recent advances in food engineering for detection of bacteria pathogens 4. Novel biosensors for the rapid detection of pathogens in parasite foods 5. Carbon nanomaterials as new tools for diagnosis of viral food borne pathogens 6. Nanotechnological tools for the rapid in-the-field detection of fungal toxin food borne pathogens 7. Biosensor application for detection of chemical contamination in food

Biosensor and nanotechnology application food analysis 8. Optical biosensors with nanotechnology for food applications 9. Electrochemical-based biosensor technologies in food analysis 10. Nanotechnology based on microfluidic lab-on-a-chip devices for food analysis 11. Application of nanomaterials biosensors in food analysis