Clifton K. Fagerquist

Dr. Clifton K. Fagerquist received his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from UCLA in 1994 where he studied stable and metastable gas phase clusters using fast atom bombardment and sector-field mass spectrometry. After post-doctoral research at UC Berkeley and two years directing a mass spectrometry facility at University of Minnesota, he joined the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) in Philadelphia. He then transferred to the ARS, Western Regional Research Center in Albany, California where he has been using advanced mass spectrometry and proteomic techniques to characterize foodborne pathogens and their toxins.