Microbiology and Food Hygiene" deals with the occurrence and behavior of microorganisms in food and feed. For this purpose, the CCMB investigates the production chain from agricultural production to the consumer.
Essential questions are, for example, the contamination and microbial spoilage of food as well as food-borne infections and microbial intoxications. The department is headed at the Hochschule Niederrhein by Prof. Dr. Dr. Alexander Prange. The field of biotechnology is represented at the CCMB by Prof. Dr. Uta Bergstedt and Prof. Dr. Anna Nickisch-Hartfiel in the Faculty of Chemistry.
The CCMB is already successfully carrying out collaborative and industrial projects and intends to initiate further projects in the fields of microbiology, hygiene, biotechnology, speciation analysis and bioprocess engineering.
In addition to universities in Germany and abroad, numerous companies are already cooperating with the Hochschule Niederrhein in this field. Not for nothing: Microbiology is an economically lucrative technology of the future. The students also expect great professional advantages from application-oriented teaching education in the Bachelor's degree programme and additional research in the Master's degree programme. After graduation, they will be well equipped to enter the world of work in microbiology.
