Thanks for your interest in our research program! Clearly, you have experience in food microbiological research based on your publication. We have a graduate program in microbiology (Dept. of Biol. Sci.), and I am an adjunct faculty with that department. That dept. has teaching assistantships to support graduate students. I may have a RA available in the spring of 2012. Please email me your transcripts and the statement of research if you are interested in applying the graduate school.